Introduction
There is Room for You
The Great Break into a Million Pieces
An Overview
How to Use This Bookandmdash;Getting the Most from your Companion
Composing as Companion?
More Notes on Semantics
You Say Impro, I Say Improv
Chapter 1 Materia Prima
Introduction
Using What's Available: Forti, Dilley, Campbell
Dancing with All You've Got:and#160;Sgorbati, Duck
Going Beyond What You Do:and#160;Martin
Playing with What's Given:and#160;Bull, Reitz, Topf, Overlie, Forsythe
A Closing Thought about Material
Interludeandmdash;So many influences, so little time . . .
Chapter 2 Form:and#160;Dancing Takes Shape
Introduction
Ritual: Anna Halprin
Performance Practice:and#160;Deborah Hay
Ancient Memories:and#160;Eiko and Koma
A New Form of Dance: Steve Paxton
Studying Form:and#160;Richard Bull
From Chaos to Form through Play:and#160;Keith Hennessy
Articulating Forms:and#160;Nina Martin
Fostering Form:and#160;Penny Campbell
Emerging Forms:and#160;Susan Sgorbati
Frames as Forms:and#160;Mary Overlie
The Senses as Composers:and#160;Lisa Nelson
Forming a Dialogue of Spirit, Nature, and Culture:and#160;Suprapto Suryodarmo (Prapto)
Investigating Open Space Improvisation: Barbara Dilley
A Closing Thought about Form
Practices for Further Research
Interludeandmdash;Notes to myself:and#160;andquot;No room for form with love this strong.andquot;and#160;(Rumi)
Chapter 3 Time Machines
Introduction
Aand#160;Chance Encounter:and#160;Katie Duck
Options to Glacial Time:and#160;Nina Martin
Time Warp:and#160;Mary Overlie
Surprise:and#160;Min Tanaka
Shaping Time:and#160;Dana Reitz
Epic:and#160;Nancy Stark Smith
Time to Digest:and#160;Nancy Topf
Through the Looking Glass:and#160;Steve Paxton
Compressing Time: William Forsythe
A Sense of Time:and#160;Barbara Dilley
Back in Time:and#160;Lisa Nelson
Aand#160;Closing Thought about Time
Practices for Further Research
Interludeandmdash;Notes to myself:and#160;Living Backwards
Chapter 4 Spacial Relations
Introduction
Palindrome: Richard Bull
The Grid:and#160;Barbara Dilley
Spherical Space:and#160;Paxton
The Global Underscore:and#160;Nancy Stark Smith
The Hot Spot:and#160;Nina Martin
Listen to the Space:and#160;Dana Reitz
Architecture:and#160;Mary Overlie
Room Writing:and#160;William Forsythe
Exit and Dance:and#160;Katie Duck
Aand#160;Closing Thought about Space
Practices for Further Research
Interludeandmdash;Ma
Chapter 5 The Dancing Image
Introduction
The Red Square: Barbara Dilley
The Single Image Score:and#160;Lisa Nelson
Complete the Form and Neuro:and#160;Nina Martin
Poetic and Anatomical Imagery:and#160;Joan Skinner and Marsha Paludan et al.
Dynamic Anatomy:and#160;Nancy Topf
Becoming Butoh:and#160;Kazuo Ohno
Body Weather:and#160;Min Tanaka
Disappearing:and#160;Mary Overlie
A Closing Thought about the Dancing Image
Practices for Further Research
Interludeandmdash;Invisible Dances with Mary Overlie
Chapter 6 The Possibilities of Music
Introduction
Equals in Process: Judith Dunn and Bill Dixon
Integrated yet Independent:and#160;Penny Campbell
An Emerging Duet:and#160;Susan Sgorbati
A Dialogue of Forms:and#160;Richard Bull
Minimalists:and#160;Nancy Topf and Jon Gibson
Magpie Music Dance:and#160;Katie Duck
The Music in Movement:and#160;Dana Reitz
Carrying the Music:and#160;Kazuo Ohno
86 Aspects:and#160;Nancy Stark Smith and Mike Vargas
A Closing Thought about Music
Practices for Further Research
Interludeandmdash;Notes to myself:and#160;Listening
Chapter 7 The Eyes
Introduction
The Five Eye Practices:and#160;Barbara Dilley
Engaging the Eyes:and#160;Katie Duck
The Kinesthetics of Seeing:and#160;Lisa Nelson
The Eyes as an Image of Depth:and#160;Nancy Topf
Playing the Field: Nina Martin
Peripheral Vision: Steve Paxton
Cleaning the Windows of Perception:and#160;Suprapto Suryodarmo (Prapto)
A Closing Thought about the Eyes
Practices for Further Research
Interludeandmdash;Notes to myself:and#160;Catch It Out of the Corner of my Eye
Chapter 8 Partnering Science
Introduction
Comparative Anatomy of a Moving Body:and#160;Jennifer Monson
Embodying Complexity:and#160;Susan Sgorbati
Physics for the Body:and#160;Steve Paxton
A Research Proposal:and#160;Simone Forti
Aand#160;Closing Thought about Partnering Science
Practices for Further Research
Interludeandmdash;Notes to myself on not knowing
Chapter 9 The Magical Object
Introduction
Taking Instructions from Objects:and#160;Lisa Nelson
Re-reify:and#160;Mary Overlie
Animate Dancing:and#160;Simone Forti
Drawing Dances: Dana Reitz
Wiggle Room: William Forsythe
Bytes:and#160;Pooh Kaye
Objects in Space:and#160;Nancy Topf
Not Only for Yourself:and#160;Min Tanaka
A Closing Thought about Objects
Practices for Further Research
Interludeandndash;The objects begin to speak . . .
Appendices:
Who's Who and What's What in the Improviser's Companion
Dance-Maker Biographical Sketches and Contextual Information
Bibliography
Dance-Maker Selected Bibliographies and Further Reading