- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 videocassette (90 min.) : sd., col. NTSC; 1/2 in. (VHS)
- Summary
- Panel discussion on improvisation in dance and its role in teaching, composition, and performance. Among the topics are important precursors and influences (Anna Halprin, John Cage, Robert Ellis Dunn, Steve Paxton, Sara Shelton Mann, and others) ; current directions in improvisation ; the special qualities of improvised work ; how improvisation or its qualities can enhance set performances. A question-and-answer session closes the program.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Gift of Laura Faure, Bates Dance Festival.
- Subject
- Improvisation in dance
- Genre/Form
- Dance.
- Panel discussions.
- Video.
- Performer (note)
- Moderator: Suzanne Carbonneau.
- Panelists: Chris Aiken, Simone Forti, Kathleen Hermesdorf, Ray Eliot Schwartz, Nancy Stark Smith, Mike Vargas.
- Event (note)
- Videotaped at Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, Bates College, Lewiston, Me., as part of the Bates Dance Festival, on August 1, 2002.
- Call Number
- *MGZIA 4-6611
- OCLC
- NYPY02-F531
- Title
The art of improvisation [videorecording] : panel discussion / [presented by] the Bates Dance Festival.
- Imprint
2002.
- Country of Producing Entity
U.S.
- Event
Videotaped at Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, Bates College, Lewiston, Me., as part of the Bates Dance Festival, on August 1, 2002.
- Performer
Moderator: Suzanne Carbonneau.
Panelists: Chris Aiken, Simone Forti, Kathleen Hermesdorf, Ray Eliot Schwartz, Nancy Stark Smith, Mike Vargas.
- Added Author
Carbonneau, Suzanne. Moderator
Aiken, Chris. Speaker
Forti, Simone. Speaker
Hermesdorf, Kathleen. Speaker
Schwartz, Ray Eliot. Speaker
Smith, Nancy Stark. Speaker
Vargas, Mike. Speaker
Bates College (Lewiston, Me.)
Bates Dance Festival.
- Research Call Number
*MGZIA 4-6611