Critical Correspondence

MRPJ#29/Improvisation is Dead, Long Live Improvisation: Table of Contents

Spring 2005

Editors: April Biggs, Kimberly Brandt, Levi Gonzalez, Isabel Lewis, Alejandra Martorell and Layard Thompson

Letter from the Editors

Conversation between Arturo Vidich and Yvonne Meier

Improvisation and/as Open Source version 1.2 by Isabel Lewis

curating is hard by Miguel Gutierrez

The Movement of Attention: An Interview with Daniel Lepkoff by Simone Forti

Improv #2 (video stills) by Lara Hanson

Reflections on a Panel Discussion “Outside in the City: Reframing the Kinetic Experience of the Urban Environment” by Gillian Lipton

As We Move Away from a Theory of Improvisation by David Velasco

Travelogue: An Improvisation Across Borders by Jonah Bokaer

The Ickey Shuffle and the Dirty Bird: African American Improvisational Dance in the Endzone by Maura Keefe, PhD

The Improvisational Nature of the Dramaturg/Choreographer Relationship: A Series of Extemporized Manifestos by Glenn D. Kessler

From El Sol Brillante Community Garden to Stuyvesant Cove by Yves Musard

Weathering the Score by Jennifer Monson

transcription, a study in us by April Biggs

The Space of Dancing by K.J. Holmes

The Improvisation of Curation: One Curator’s Observations by Ishmael Houston-Jones

new noise new meat by Chris Peck

Beer is an interesting subject matter or notes on a collaborative process by Beth Gill and Chase Granoff

Sleepover Intervention: Waking People Up By Sleeping by Andrea Liu

Coaxing the Unfamiliar – taken from a handful of interviews between Bebe Miller and April Biggs

Reflekt First Dance Improvisation Festival Sofia, Bulgaria, 28.IX.2004 – 01.X.2004 by Elissaveta Iordanova

In improvisation the moment is the crucible by Frances Alenikoff

Being Jon Kinzel by Alejandra Martorell

Psychic Network: Rapid Response by Jon Kinzel

Improvising writing about Improvising Chosen in NYC by Keith Hennessey

Recollections (Paul Benney’s) of a Performance (Keith Hennessey’s) by Paul Benney

Movement Research Artist-in-Residence Project Page by Sam Kim and by Heather Kravas