Back in print
(Previously published by Dance Books - this is a very lightly updated new edition)
Publisher: Triarchy Press
Publication: March 2023 List Price: £25 use code to save £5 Format: Paperback, 322 pages Size: 24.6 x 18.9 cm ISBN: 978-1-913743-77-2 Tags: Dance; Modern dance; Contemporary dance; Creativity; Improvisation; Body therapy; Creative arts About the authors: Miranda Tufnell | Chris Crickmay Save 20%
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Body Space Image
Notes towards improvisation and performance
Miranda Tufnell & Chris Crickmay
When it was first published in 1990, Body Space Image was acclaimed as the first book of its kind – a remarkable guide to improvisation, using a narrative of discovery that “set the mind loose from the rut of everyday perception”.
It was groundbreaking in the way it addressed improvised movement, experimental performance and how to create performance settings.
Thirty years later, Body, Space, Image still stands out from anything published in the interim – largely because of the way it combines a unique collection of images (from dance, theatre and painting) and statements by working artists.
The authors start with the individual’s movement itself as the basis of improvisation, then broaden their perspective to include groups working together and the physical setting of performance – space, light, sound and objects.
Body Space Image explores ways of working and ways of thinking about performance that have inspired beginners and experienced artists alike. It is a manual intended to stimulate rather than a comprehensive system of working and, in it, word and image combine to celebrate and record one of the most exacting art forms.
It was groundbreaking in the way it addressed improvised movement, experimental performance and how to create performance settings.
Thirty years later, Body, Space, Image still stands out from anything published in the interim – largely because of the way it combines a unique collection of images (from dance, theatre and painting) and statements by working artists.
The authors start with the individual’s movement itself as the basis of improvisation, then broaden their perspective to include groups working together and the physical setting of performance – space, light, sound and objects.
Body Space Image explores ways of working and ways of thinking about performance that have inspired beginners and experienced artists alike. It is a manual intended to stimulate rather than a comprehensive system of working and, in it, word and image combine to celebrate and record one of the most exacting art forms.
Readership
Body Space Image is a widely used resource for students and teachers of dance and movement and all those working therapeutically with movement.
Miranda Tufnell and Dennis Greenwood, 'Split' (1984), Photo: Chris Ha