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Dance and the Specific Image: Improvisation Paperback - 1994 - 1st Edition

by Daniel Nagrin

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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, the Workgroup, and has taught in dance classes and workshops all over the United States. Designed primarily for dancers, many can be adapted for actors and even musicians.

In the 1960s, at a time when many modern dancers were working with movement as abstraction, Nagrin turned instead toward movement as metaphor. His passionate belief that dance must speak of people led him to found the Workgroup, a small company of dancers who, in the early 1970s, devoted themselves to the practice and performance of improvisation.

Nagrin invites the reader into the mind of a dancer totally absorbed in his art, one who writes with wisdom and authority about what it means to be an artist.

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  • Title Dance and the Specific Image: Improvisation
  • Author Daniel Nagrin
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh
  • Publication date 1994-01-15
  • ISBN 9780822955207 / 0822955202
  • Weight 1.03 lbs (0.47 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.05 x 8.07 x 0.59 in (22.99 x 20.50 x 1.50 cm)
  • Reading level 1050
  • Category Performing Arts
  • Library of Congress subjects Improvisation in dance, Workgroup (Dance group) - History
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 93027793
  • Dewey Decimal Code 792.8

About the author

Daniel Nagrin, dubbed "the great loner of American dance" by Dance Magazine, has worked with Martha Graham, Helen Tamiris, Mme. Anderson-Ivantzova, and Anna Sokolow. He has danced on Broadway, in film and television, and has toured nationally and internationally as a solo concert artist. He is professor emeritus of dance at Arizona State University.
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