I Want to Be Ready: Improvised Dance as a Practice of Freedom »

A conceptual framework for understanding the development of improvised dance in late 20th-century America

Introduction: The Land of the Free 1

Chapter 1 Mambo's Open Shines: Causing Circles at the Palladium 28

Chapter 2 We Insist! Seeing Music and Hearing Dance 55

Chapter 3 Bodies on the Line: Contact Improvisation ant Techniques of Nonviolent Protest 94

Chapter 4 The Breathing Show: Improvisation in the Work of Bill T. Jones 112

Conclusion: Exquisite Dancing---Altering the Terrain of Tight Places 139

Notes 147

Bibliography 163

Index 171