Critical Correspondence

MRPJ#18/release: Table of Contents

Winter/Spring 1999

Editors: DD Dorvillier, Trajal Harrell, Sarah Michelson

Rice Cake by Alison Foley

Editors’ Notes

Letters to the Editor by The Board of Directors of the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies and Susan T. Klein

Quotes throughout the journal on ‘release’

Coming to Terms with the Release Technique by Diane Moss

Release Work, History from the View of Mary Fulkerson

The Release Class by Mary Fulkerson

Excerpts from Hawkins’ Beginner Class by Erick Hawkins

Excerpt from “The Body Is a Clear Place” by Erick Hawkins, introduction by Renata Celichowska

Richard Move on Himself and Martha Graham, prompted by Sarah Michelson

You Can’t Make a Leaf Grow by Stretching It – some notes on the philosophical implications of Skinner Releasing technique by Kristy Alexander

A Movement Technique – A Healing Technique by Susan T. Klein

Somewhere in Here I Use the Word Release by Neil Greenberg

Mr. Baryshnikov with Trajal Harrell

Orgasm (excerpt), from Mike Iveson’s forthcoming novel/album/rock opera (I can’t decide which) to be entitled “I’m Special The Heat Is On.”

Movement Research: Release Technique: Nancy Topf by Sophia Cowing, Loraine Corfield, Tania Apelbaum and Jon Gibson

On Nancy Topf by Susan Osberg

Young Frog Falls Over by Simone Forti

Shuffle Long by Anita Feldman

Thoughts On Release and Tap Dancing by Hank Smith

The Tip of the Iceberg – an interview with Yvonne Meier by Jennifer Monson with assistance from Ishmael Houston-Jones

Dr. Dr. Please Release Me by Sarah Michelson and Clarinda Mac Low, with help from Abby Rasminsky

On Release by Dunya Dianne McPherson

Dialogue In Motion by Katherine Profeta