Writing and Dancing with Ann Cooper Albright

Ann Cooper Albright is  the author of How to Land: finding ground in an unstable world which  offers ways of thinking about and dealing with the uncertainty of our  contemporary lives; Engaging Bodies: The Politics and Poetics of  Corporeality; Modern Gestures: Abraham Walkowitz Draws Isadora Duncan  Dancing; Traces of Light: Absence and Presence in the Work of Loïe  Fuller; and Choreographing Difference the Body and Identity in  Contemporary Dance. She is founder and director of Girls in Motion, an  award winning afterschool program at Langston Middle School and   co-director of Accelerated Motion: Towards a New Dance Literacy, a  digital collection of materials about dance. Albright is also a veteran  practitioner of contact Improvisation, has taught workshops  internationally, and facilitated Critical Mass: CI @ 50 which brought  300 dancers from across the world to learn, talk, and dance together in  celebration of the 50th anniversary of this extraordinary form. The  book, Encounters with Contact Improvisation, is the product of one of  her adventures in writing and dancing with others. Her work has been  supported by the NEA, NEH, ACLS, The Guggenheim Foundation, and the Ohio  Arts Council.

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