Dance and the Specific Image: Improvisation

by Daniel Nagrin

Book Overview

After an extraordinary career in dance - as a performer, choreographer, and teacher - Daniel Nagrin has now written an extraordinary book. In it he explores the roots of his aesthetic philosophy, influenced by Stanislavski, Helen Tamiris, Joseph Chaikin and the Open Theatre, and his work on and off Broadway as an actor and dancer. Dance and the Specific Image includes over one hundred improvisational structures that Nagrin created with his new company,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822955202
• ISBN13: 9780822955207
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.1" x 9.1"