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Relational Improvisation: Music, Dance and Contemporary Art
- Author: Rose, Simon
Relational Improvisation: Music, Dance and Contemporary Art
- Author: Rose, Simon
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Relational Improvisation explores the creative exchanges that occur between artistic disciplines through the practice of improvisation in performance. Building upon the growing research into improvisation, the book explores contemporary transdisciplinary collaborations between improvised music and other fields including dance and visual arts, offering insights from a wide range of practitioners. Author Simon Rose takes a ground-up approach that places value on lived experience and reflects the value of collaboration. Mirroring improvisation’s relationality, chapters are co-authored by musicians, dancers and visual artists from diverse backgrounds who are engaged in active artistic collaborations with the author.
The relational approach allows for the inclusion of improvisation’s scope and many levels. Showcasing a range of different voices, the chapters address topics in artistic improvisation including cybernetics, interspecies work, working with light, phenomenology, sympoiesis and identity, and utilise a range of approaches including autoethnography and philosophical analysis. Considering the relationships of improvisation to emotion, space, embodiment and philosophy, this book shows how improvisation, collaboration and transdisciplinary artistic practices combine to generate new creative possibilities. It provides vital insights for practicing artists, arts researchers, philosophy and pedagogy and all those studying improvisation and collaborative creativity in contemporary music, dance and visual arts.
Contents
- Contents
- Chapter 1 Double Resonance. Improvisation, relationality and transdisciplinarity.
- Simon Rose
- Chapter 2 The Performance of Improvised Music: What do we mean when we talk about performance? Simon Rose
- Chapter 3 Contemporary Art and Improvisation. Simon Rose & Julie Myers
- Chapter 4 The shared space of improvisation in dance and music. Simon Rose & Ingo Reulecke
- Chapter 5 Levels of improvisation and neocybernetic relations. Simon Rose & Adam Pultz Melbye
- Chapter 6 Interspecies Improvisation Simon Rose & Barbara Berti.
- Chapter 7 A Phenomenology of Improvisation in Dance and Music: Peripatetic Symphilosophein. Simon Rose & Andrew Wass
- Chapter 8 ‘Moving between the notes’ in collaboration and improvisation: South Korea and Berlin Simon Rose & Youjin Sung
- Chapter 9 Sympoiesis and Improvisation: How I work, how you work, and how we work.
- Simon Rose & Paul Stapleton
- Chapter 10 Musical Identity and Exchange in Improvisation. Simon Rose & Kriton Beyer
- Chapter 11 Light, Music and Improvisation. Simon Rose, Lena Czerniawska, Emese Csornai & Viola Yip
- Chapter 12 Improvisation and Uncovering Collaboration. Simon Rose & Nicola L. Hein.
