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1 online resource (353 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Cover; Hiking the Horizontal; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue; Questions as a Way of Life; Fueling the Imagination; Asking Questions as a Way of Life; Two Dances: The Oldest and One Not Yet Made; Wondering about Books; The Sounds of St. Albans; Was Einstein a Choreographer?; Influence, Inquiry, Action; Who Gets to Dance?; Manifesto; The Roosevelt, Dancing; The Shipyard, Dancing; Speech and Silence: The Who Matters; A Liberation in the Gallery; Being Another: One Kind of Technique; What Is the Dancing About?; I Met a Physicist. |
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Finding the Fish: On Meaning, Narrative, and Subject Matter DancingDancing on Both Sides of the Brain: An Essay in Text and Movement; Justice and Genetics: Two Program Notes; The Problem of Abstraction; Two Ways to Be an Angel; Portfolio of Site-Specific Dances; Where Is the Dance Happening?; Scene at a Bedside; Choreographing Space; My Favorite Night at Temple Micah; The Stage and Why It Matters; Three Places, Three Stories; Structures and Underpinnings; A Brief Conversation with a Friend; What Happens on a Residency?; Dilemmas of Practice in Art and Healing: Response to an E-mail. |
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Structure: The Container That Holds the DanceWhat Is the Toolbox?; Rehearsal, Defined and Redefined; Free Fall; Portfolio of Stage Dances; Transdomain Practices; Calling the Ancestors; In Defense of Creative Research; Onward with Petichta; Fresh Readings: Reviewing Books on Tango and Nureyev; Ruminations and Curiosities: A Series of Anecdotes and the Questions That Follow; Partnering and People; Seven Paths to Creativity; Politics; Two Assertions; A Return to Inquiry; Activism, Professionalism, Purity. |
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It Is Easier to Be against President Bush Than It Is to Change Small Dynamics in Our Own FieldA Job Swap and Slow Banking: Two Op-Eds; Pushing Back: A Rant in Three Movements; Small Righteous Angers; Bulky Love; To the Attendance Monitor at Sligo Creek Middle School; Motherhood: Stories and an Interview; Representation Found and Lost; Critical Response at Home; Bulky Love; Epilogue; Some Afterthoughts for the Paperback Edition; Appendix: List of Choreographed Works, 1974-2010; Index. |
| Summary |
Award-winning choreographer shares insights and methods for making real art in the real world. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Lerman, Liz.
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Lerman, Liz. |
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Women choreographers -- United States -- Biography.
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Women choreographers. |
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United States. |
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Biographies.
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Choreography -- United States -- Philosophy.
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Choreography. |
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Philosophy. |
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Modern dance -- United States -- Philosophy.
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Modern dance. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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Print version: Lerman, Liz. Hiking the Horizontal : Field Notes from a Choreographer. Middletown : Wesleyan University Press, ©2014 9780819574367 |
| ISBN |
9780819575593 (electronic book) |
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0819575593 (electronic book) |
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