Experimental Dance and the Somatics of Language

Megan V. Nicely is an artist/scholar whose research involves choreographic experimentation through the medium of the body. She has published in TDR, Choreographic Practices, Performance Research Journal, and others, and her company Megan Nicely/Dance has performed on both U.S. coasts, in the UK and in Europe. She is Associate Professor of Performing Arts and Social Justice/Dance at University of San Francisco, USA.

• Chapter 1 -       Introduction.- Chapter 2 -     The Micropolitics of Micromovement.- Chapter 3 -  Interval: Trisha Brown and the Space Between Words.- Chapter 4 -       Vibration: Kasai Akira and Voice Power.- Chapter 5 -    Adaptation: Deborah Hay and “Call It That”.- Chapter 6 -      Language as Agent: Doing and Allowing.- Chapter 7 -      Movement’s Return: Sensations in Context