An Emergent Underscore: a conversation with Nancy Stark Smith, London
An emergent Underscore: a conversation with Nancy Stark Smith embodied techne series on In this conversation Nancy Stark Smith explains with details the Underscore as framework for exploration and reserach for movement improvisational practices. She defines it and goes on to elaborate about the phases and the Global Underscore. Interview realized in London, July 10th 2012. BIO: Nancy Stark Smith first trained as an athlete and gymnast, leading her to study and perform modern and postmodern dance in the early 1970s, greatly influenced by the dance, theater improvisation group the Grand Union and the Judson Dance Theater breakthroughs of the 1960s in NYC. She graduated from Oberlin College with a degree in dance and writing. In 1972, she danced in the first performances of Contact Improvisation in NYC and has since been central to its development as a dancer, teacher, performer, organizer, and writer, publisher, working extensively over the years with Steve Paxton and others. She travels throughou
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