Issue #29

Contents

• 3 LETTER TO THE EDITOR LAURIE UPRICHARD
• 3 LETTER FROM THE EDITORS APRIL BIGGS, KIMERBLY BRANDT, LEVI GONZALEZ, ISABEL LEWIS, ALEJANDRA MARTCRELL AND LAYARD THOMPSON
• 3 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR'S NOTE CARLA PETERSON
• 4 CONVERSATION BETWEEH ARTURO VIDICH AND YVONNE MEIER
• 6 IMPROVISATION AND/AS OPEN SOURCE VERSION 1.2 ISABEL LEWIS
• 7 CURATING IS HARD MIGUEL GUTIERREZ
• 8 THE MOVEMENT OF ATTENTION: AN INTERVIEW WITH DANIEL LEPKOFF SIMONE FORTI
• 10 IMPROV #2 (VIDEO STILLS) LARA HANSON
• 12 REFLECTIONS ON A PANEL DISCUSSION “OUTSIDE IN THE CITY: REFRAMING THE KINETIC EXPERIENCE OF THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT” GILLIAN LIPTON
• 14 AS WE MOVE AWAY FROM A THEORY OF IMPROVISATION DAVID VELASCO
• 15 TRAVELOGUE: AN IMPROVISATION ACROSS BORDERS JONAH BOKAER
• 16 THE ICKEY SHUFFLE AND THE DIRTY BIRD: AFRICAN AMERICAN IMPROVISATIONAL DANCE IN THE ENDZONE MAURA KEEFE, PhD
• 18 THE IMPROVISATIONAL NATURE OF THE DRAMATURG/CHOREOGRAPHER RELATIONSHIP: A SERIES OF EXTEMPORIZED MANIFESTOS GLENN D. KESSLER
• 20 FROM EL SOL BRILLANTE COMMUNITY GARDEN TO STUYVESANT COVE YVES MUSARD
• 22 WEATHERING THE SCORE JENNIFER MONSON
• 24 TRANSCRIPTION, A STUDY IN US APRIL BIGGS
• 26 THE SPACE OF DANCING K.J. HOLMES
• 27 THE IMPROVISATION OF CURATION: ONE CURATOR’S OBSERVATIONS ISHMAEL HOUSTON-JONES
• 28 NEW NOISE NEW MEAT CHRIS PECK
• BEER IS AN INTERESTING SUBJECT MATTER OR NOTES ON A COLLABORATIVE PROCESS BETH GILL, CHASE GRANOFF
• 29 SLEEPOVER INTERVENTION: WAKING PEOPLE UP BY SLEEPING ANDREA LIU
• 30 COAXING THE UNFAMILIAR: TAKEN FROM A HANDFUL OF INTERVIEWS BETWEEN BEBE MILLER AND APRIL BIGGS
• 32 REFLEKT FIRST DANCE IMPROVISATIONAL FESTIVAL SOFIA, BULGARIA, 28.IX.2004-01.X.2004 ELISSAVETA IORDANOVA
• 34 BEING JON KINZEL ALEJANDRA MARTORELL
• IN IMPROVISATION THE MOMENT IS THE CRUCIBLE FRANCES ALENIKOFF
• 35 PSYCHIC NETWORK: RAPID RESPONSE JON KINZEL
• 36 IMPROVISING WRITING ABOUT IMPROVISING CHOSEN IN NYC KEITH HENNESSY
• RECOLLECTIONS (PAUL BENNEY’S) OF A PERFORMANCE (KEITH HENNESSY’S) SAM KIM, HEATHER KRAVAS
• 37 MOVEMENT RESEARCH ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE PROJECT PAGE

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

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