I Want to Be Ready - 9780472050840

I Want to Be ReadyImprovised Dance as a Practice of Freedom\nAuthor(s): Danielle Goldman\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of Michigan Press, United States\nImprint: The University of Michigan Press\nISBN-13: 9780472050840, 978-0472050840\nSynopsis\n\""Danielle Goldman's contribution to the theory and history of improvisation in dance is rich, beautiful and extraordinary. In her careful, rigorously imaginative analysis of the discipline of choreography in real time, Goldman both compels and allows us to become initiates in the mysteries of flight and preparation. She studies the massive volitional resources that one unleashes in giving oneself over to being unleashed. It is customary to say of such a text that it is 'long-awaited' or 'much anticipated'; because of Goldman's work we now know something about the potenza, the kinetic explosion, those terms carry. Reader, get ready to move and be moved.\"" ---Fred Moten, Duke University \""In this careful, intelligent, and theo.