" Relational Improvisation explores the creative exchanges that occur between artistic disciplines through the practice of improvisation in performance. Building upon the growing research into improvisation, the book explores contemporary transdisciplinary collaborations between improvised music and other fields including dance and visual arts, offering insights from a wide range of practitioners. Author Simon Rose takes a ground-up approach that places value on lived experience and reflects the value of collaboration. Mirroring improvisation's relationality, chapters are co-authored by musicians, dancers and visual artists from diverse backgrounds who are engaged in active artistic collaborations with the author.

The relational approach allows for the inclusion of improvisation's scope and many levels. Showcasing a range of different voices, the chapters address topics in artistic improvisation including cybernetics, interspecies work, working with light, phenomenology, sympoiesis and identity, and utilise a range of approaches including autoethnography and philosophical analysis. Considering the relationships of improvisation to emotion, space, embodiment and philosophy, this book shows how improvisation, collaboration and transdisciplinary artistic practices combine to generate new creative possibilities. It provides vital insights for practicing artists, arts researchers, philosophy and pedagogy and all those studying improvisation and collaborative creativity in contemporary music, dance and visual arts." 4e de couverture

Contents
1- Double-resonance : improvisation, relationality and Transdisciplinarity ( Simon Rose)
2- The "Performance" of improvised music : What do we mean when we talk about performance ? (Simon Rose)
3- Contemporary Art and Improvisation (Simon Rose & Julie Myers)
4- The shared space of improvisation in dance and music (Simon Rose & Ingo Reulecke)
5- Levels of improvisation and neocybernetic relations (Simon Rose & Adam Pultz Melbye)
6- Interspecies improvisation (Simon Rose & Barbara Berti)
7- A phenomenology of improvisation in dance and music : peripatetic symphilosophein (Simon Rose & Andrew Wass)
8- From South Korea to Berlin : 'moving between the note' in collaborative improvisation (Simon Rose & Youjin Sung)
9- Sympoiesis and improvisation : how I work, how you work and how we work (Simon Rose & Paul Stapleton)
10- Musical identity and exchange in improvisation ( Simon Rose & Kriton Beyer)
11- Light, music and improvisation (Simon Rose, Lena Czerniawska, Emese Csornai & Viola Yip)
12- Improvisation and uncovering collaboration ( Simon Rose & Nicola L. Hein)[-]

"Dance is a uniquely significant art form, whose primary material is not simply 'the body', but energy as it is used and experienced in movement. Energy is central to discourses of modernity and modernism, in which choreographers and dancers can actively intervene through their innovative use of energy. Mary Wigman, Martha Graham, and Merce Cunningham are key choreographers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, whose rhythmic innovations challenged and established norms of energy usage in their socio-cultural contexts, enabling their contemporaries to engage differently with dominant economics of energy.
This book explores the rhythmic innovations of these choreographers by combining discussion of cultural contexts with close analysis of specific dance works. Uses of energy in dance are described and analysed with the aid of concepts drawn from Rudolf Laban's writings, and are theorised with reference to historical, social and cultural contexts and to phenomenological and poststructuralist approaches to the embodied subject, constructing the argument that choreographical innovation - including recent work using digital technologies - involves a process of 'kinesthetic imagination"--P.[4] de la couv.

Comprend des notes bibliographiques à la fin du volume ainsi qu'une bibliographie.
Comprend un index.
Comprend un glossaire.[-]

" How to Land: Finding Ground in an Unstable World foregrounds the importance of embodiment as a means of surviving the disorientation of our twenty-first century world. Linking somatics and politics, author Ann Cooper Albright argues that a renewed attention to gravity as both a metaphoric sensibility and a physical experience can help transform moments of personal disorientation into an opportunity to reflect on the important relationship between individual resiliency and communal responsibility. Long one of the nation's preeminent thinkers in dance studies, Albright asks how contemporary bodies are affected by repeated images of falling bodies, bombed-out buildings, and displaced peoples, as well as recurring evocations of global economies and governments in discursive free fall or dissolution. What kind of fear gets lodged in connective tissue when there is an underlying anxiety that certain aspects of our world are in danger of falling apart? To answer this question, she draws on analyses of perception from cognitive studies, tracing the discussions of meaning, body and language through the work of Sara Ahmed, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Shaun Gallagher, among others. In addition, she follows the past decade of debate in contemporary media concerning the implications of the weightless and two-dimensional social media exchanges on structures of attention and learning, as well as their effect on the personal growth and socialization of a generation of young adults. Each chapter interweaves discussions of movement actions with their cultural implications, documenting specific bodily experiences and then tracing their ideological ripples out through the world. " 4e de couverture

Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction

- Falling
- Disorientation
- Suspension
- Gravity
- Resilience
- Connection

- Afterword

Contient aussi : des notes, une bibliographie et un index[-]

"(...) examines and describes dance through her consciousness of dance as an art, through the experience of dancing, and through the existential and phenomenological literature on the 'lived body'. She draws upon the work of such philosophers as Colin Wilson, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Paul Ricoeur, and Martin Buber to describe dance through its lived ground, the human body itself. She makes it clear that the inherent qualities and aesthetic properties of this art form almost demand this particular analysis: dance is 'the' existential art. And this art form is complete only when there is an audience. Professor Fraleigh shows that dance brings forth the dancer in all of us, that we understand dance because of the expressive nature of our own bodies.
In a final section, the author considers various forms of dance imagery, showing that no matter how abstract it is, dance always reflects life because it is grounded in the lived body. She describes, with performance photographs, specific imagery in dance masterworks by Doris Humphrey, Anna Sokolow, Viola Farber, Nina Wiener, and Garth Fagan."--P.[4] de la couv.

Comprend des notes bibliographiques.
Comprend un index.[-]

"This book in an analytical inquiry into classical film theory (thais is, film theory before the advent of he semiotics and poststructuralism than began to dominate academic film literature in the 1970s). The author brings his training and experience as both an analytical philosopher and a film scholar to bear on its chief tenets. Using Rudolf Arnheim, André Bazin, and V. F. Perkins as representatives of major types of thinking about film, he provides clear and concice overviews of their work and locates their thought against the critical and theoretical currents of their times, the historical development of the cinema, and the prevalent issues in philosophical aesthetics. -- P.[4] de la couv.

Comprend une bibliographie.
Comprend un index.[-]

"Du grand ouvrage dont rêvait Merleau-Ponty ne restent que cent cinquante pages manuscrites. Quelle est leur fonction: introduire. Il s'agit de diriger le lecteur vers un domaine que ses habitudes de pensée ne lui rendent pas immédiatement accessible. Il s'agit, notamment, de le persuader que les concepts fondamentaux de la philosophie moderne - par exemple, les distinctions du sujet et de l'objet, de l'essence et du fait, de l'être et du néant, les notions de conscience, d'image, de chose - dont il est fait constamment usage impliquent déjà une interprétation singulière du monde et ne peuvent prétendre à une dignité spéciale quand notre propos est justement de nous remettre en face de notre expérience, pour chercher en elle la naissance du sens. Pourquoi est-il devenu nécessaire de prendre un nouveau départ, pourquoi ne pouvons-nous plus penser dans le cadre des anciens systèmes, ni même bâtir sur le sol où nous les voyons, si différents soient-ils dans leur orientation, plonger leurs racines, voilà ce ue l'auteur s'efforce de dire tout d'abord"--P[4] de la couv.[-]