Read on for a detailed breakdown of how jam-packed with insightful and relevant information Fluxing: the ebb and flow of contact improvisation is:
Summary of Contents
TITLE PAGE
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PROLOGUE
Motivations and Context including author bibliographies
CHAPTER 1
Historical and Social Aspects of Contact Improvisation including:
* origins and emergence
* socio-political context
* links to websites of active individuals & companies
CHAPTER 2
Philosophical Aspects of Contact Improvization including:
* Active Meditation
* Improvisation
* Tuning In
* Social Equality
* Mindfulness
CHAPTER 3
Practical Aspects of contact improv including introduction to:
* Parameters vs Rules
* Contact (Touch)
* Flow
* Gravity
* Weight
* Momentum
* Friction
* Inertia
* Trust
* Compromise
* Tolerance
CHAPTER 4
Theory into Practise including detailed explanations & video clips of exercises for:
* reading & creatively interpreting impulses
* generating & curbing momentum
* developing a personal vocabulary
* exploring positions of power
* working with counterbalance
* bodysurfing
* lifting, catching and falling safely and economically
* and many, many more!
EPILOGUE
WordPlay including:
* bookmarked glossary of keywords
* bibliography
Summary of Contents
TITLE PAGE
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PROLOGUE
Motivations and Context including author bibliographies
CHAPTER 1
Historical and Social Aspects of Contact Improvisation including:
* origins and emergence
* socio-political context
* links to websites of active individuals & companies
CHAPTER 2
Philosophical Aspects of Contact Improvization including:
* Active Meditation
* Improvisation
* Tuning In
* Social Equality
* Mindfulness
CHAPTER 3
Practical Aspects of contact improv including introduction to:
* Parameters vs Rules
* Contact (Touch)
* Flow
* Gravity
* Weight
* Momentum
* Friction
* Inertia
* Trust
* Compromise
* Tolerance
CHAPTER 4
Theory into Practise including detailed explanations & video clips of exercises for:
* reading & creatively interpreting impulses
* generating & curbing momentum
* developing a personal vocabulary
* exploring positions of power
* working with counterbalance
* bodysurfing
* lifting, catching and falling safely and economically
* and many, many more!
EPILOGUE
WordPlay including:
* bookmarked glossary of keywords
* bibliography
Simple Science Says boxes with references to Sir Isaac Newton’s Laws of Motion and how these relate to the fundamentals of Contact Improvisation. |
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Did You Know? boxes with interesting anecdotes, cross-references and bits of general knowledge on key contact improv principles. |
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Wordplay (glossary) with explanations for over 40 keywords and phrases relating to improvisation, contact improvisation, dance, movement and expression. |
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Troubleshooting section providing suggestions and tips for dealing with common challenges experienced during jamming including: maintaining structural integrity, enhancing fluidity, developing trust and refining creative expression. |
Keen to try out your new moves? Find out whether there are any contact improvisation classes, workshops or jams taking place in your area.
© Solsurge 2008
Imagine getting your hands on...
...a teaching resource that allows an absolute novice - someone with no previous dance training or specialised movement experience - to rise to the ranks of experienced contact improvisation jammer in no time at all...
...a training tool with over 50 minutes of video clips and detailed explanations for more than 40 theme-based movement improvisations...
...an interactive CD-rom that details the origins, trends and philosophies of a movement form that revolutionised the performing arts,...
Now what you can imagine, you can experience...
...because Fluxing: the ebb and flow of contact improvisation offers all of this, and more.
FLUXING is absolutely indispensable if you want to experience the exhilaration of a dynamic movement form that is sport-dance-martial art-meditation rolled into one…
FLUXING is absolutely invaluable if you are involved in:
* teaching dance and movement
* teaching choreography and composition
* teaching drama and performance
* choreography for stage or film
* facilitating youth groups
* relationship counselling
* life and business coaching
* dance therapy
* drama therapy
FLUXING uses the wisdom gained from more than a decade of teaching contact improvisation to actors, dancers, students, couples, therapists, teachers and psychologists...
FLUXING is a multimedia interactive CD-rom containing over 160 pages of text, 200 images and photos and 45 video clips...
FLUXING combines theoretical discussions and philosophical ponderings, with practical demonstrations and troubleshooting...
FLUXING offers video demonstrations, descriptive titles, step-by-step explanations, tips and tricks-of-the-trade for over 40 improvisations that teach the fundamentals of jamming...
And if that's not enough to flip you head over heels, have a look at these *BONUS FEATURES*
...a teaching resource that allows an absolute novice - someone with no previous dance training or specialised movement experience - to rise to the ranks of experienced contact improvisation jammer in no time at all...
...a training tool with over 50 minutes of video clips and detailed explanations for more than 40 theme-based movement improvisations...
...an interactive CD-rom that details the origins, trends and philosophies of a movement form that revolutionised the performing arts,...
Now what you can imagine, you can experience...
...because Fluxing: the ebb and flow of contact improvisation offers all of this, and more.
FLUXING is absolutely indispensable if you want to experience the exhilaration of a dynamic movement form that is sport-dance-martial art-meditation rolled into one…
FLUXING is absolutely invaluable if you are involved in:
* teaching dance and movement
* teaching choreography and composition
* teaching drama and performance
* choreography for stage or film
* facilitating youth groups
* relationship counselling
* life and business coaching
* dance therapy
* drama therapy
FLUXING uses the wisdom gained from more than a decade of teaching contact improvisation to actors, dancers, students, couples, therapists, teachers and psychologists...
FLUXING is a multimedia interactive CD-rom containing over 160 pages of text, 200 images and photos and 45 video clips...
FLUXING combines theoretical discussions and philosophical ponderings, with practical demonstrations and troubleshooting...
FLUXING offers video demonstrations, descriptive titles, step-by-step explanations, tips and tricks-of-the-trade for over 40 improvisations that teach the fundamentals of jamming...
And if that's not enough to flip you head over heels, have a look at these *BONUS FEATURES*
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