How to Land - Finding Ground in an Unstable World

How to Land offers a new look at embodiment that treats gravity as the organizing force for thinking and moving through our twenty-first century world.

List of contents

• Acknowledgements


• Introduction


• 1. Falling


• 2. Disorientation


• 3. Suspension


• 4. Gravity


• 5. Resilience


• 6. Connection


• Afterword


• References

About the author

Ann Cooper Albright is Professor of Dance at Oberlin College and author of Engaging Bodies: the Politics and Poetics of Corporeality (2013); Modern Gestures: Abraham Walkowitz Draws Isadora Duncan Dancing (2010); Traces of Light: Absence and Presence in the Work of Loie Fuller (2007); Choreographing Difference: the Body and Identity in Contemporary Dance (1997) and co-editor of Moving History/Dancing Cultures (2001), and Taken By Surprise: Improvisation in Dance and Mind (2003)

Summary

How to Land offers a new look at embodiment that treats gravity as the organizing force for thinking and moving through our twenty-first century world.

Additional text

Albright's writing crafts the various experiences in a way that invites readers to engage with what is being discussed through their own somatic perceptual sensibilities.

Product details

• Authors: Ann Cooper Albright, Ann Cooper (Professor of Dance Albright, Albright Ann Cooper, Ann Cooper Albright, Ann (Professor of Dance Cooper Albright
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9780190873684
• ISBN: 978-0-19-087368-4
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; PSYCHOLOGY / Personality, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Dance, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / Modern, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / Reference, Contemporary Dance