Sharing the Dance: Contact Improvisation and American Culture (New Directions in Anthropological Writing)

    In Sharing the Dance, Cynthia Novack considers the development of contact improvisation within its web of historical, social, and cultural contexts.  This  book examines the ways contact improvisers (and their surrounding communities) encode sexuality, spontaneity, and gender roles, as well as concepts of the self and society in their dancing.
    While focusing on the changing practice of contact improvisation through two decades of social transformation, Novack’s work incorporates the history of rock dancing and disco, the modern and experimental dance movements of Merce Cunningham, Anna Halprin, and Judson Church, among others, and a variety of other physical activities, such as martial arts, aerobics, and wrestling.

• Contact Improvisation: An Introduction to a Vitalizing Dance Form
• Taken by Surprise: A Dance Improvisation Reader
• Terpsichore in Sneakers: Post-Modern Dance (Wesleyan Paperback)
• Choreographing Difference: The Body and Identity in Contemporary Dance (Studies. Engineering Dynamics Series;9)
• Caught Falling: The Confluence of Contact Improvisation, Nancy Stark Smith, and Other Moving Ideas
• A Life In Dance: A Practical Guide
• Reinventing Dance in the 1960s: Everything Was Possible
• Contact Quarterly Dance Kneepads
• Technical Manual and Dictionary of Classical Ballet (Dover Books on Dance)
• Dancing Deeper Still: The Practice of Contact Improvisation