{"product_id":"caught-falling-the-confluence-of-contact-improvisation-nancy-stark-smith-and-other-moving-ideas-9780937645093","title":"Caught Falling: The Confluence of Contact Improvisation, Nancy Stark Smith, and Other Moving Ideas","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): David Koteen\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Contact Editions\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Contact Editions\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Theater - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe inside-out of dancer\/\u003ci\u003eContact Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e editor Nancy Stark Smith's life as seen through the kaleidoscope of her thirty-six year involvement with Contact Improvisation. The book includes Q\u0026amp;As between the authors tracing the history of the dance form; photos of dancing and living; life stories; anecdotes from friends, colleagues, and family; and a description of Stark Smith's Underscore. The Underscore is a framework for practicing and researching dance improvisation that Stark Smith has been developing since the early 1990s. It is a score that guides dancers through a series of changing states from solo deepening\/releasing and sensitizing to gravity and support, through group circulation and interaction, Contact Improvisation engagements, opening out to full group improvisation with compositional awareness, and back to rest and reflection.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Contact Editions","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45410111979671,"sku":"9780937645093","price":3528.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780937645093.webp?v=1767917348","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/caught-falling-the-confluence-of-contact-improvisation-nancy-stark-smith-and-other-moving-ideas-9780937645093","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}