PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Nalina Wait is a dance artist and pracademic currently lecturing at the Australian College of Physical Education. She is of Irish settler descent and lives on Gadigal Country in Eora, Sydney. Her interests are the practice and performance of dance improvisation, somatics, and the cultivation of somatic intelligence.
'This is an impressive account of western improvised dance. Wait remains loyal to the practice, while seeking to amplify its self-understanding. It's commitment to the concept of affect and its resonance runs through this book as a core principle, offering a basis for thinking through that which is distinctive about western improvised dance. Philipa Rothfield, honorary staff member in Philosophy and Politics at La Trobe University, Australia, and honorary professor in Dance and Philosophy of the Body at the University of Southern Denmark. 'Wait embraces the complex field of contemporary, western improvised dance, in what I'd call a cartography, a genealogy, and an analysis of local practices or case studies. Through a major compilation of sources and authors, Wait offers alternative conceptual models to re-categorize practices and escape dualisms. This book makes an important contribution to dance studies.' Isabelle Ginot, Professor in the Dance Department at Universite Paris 8 - Vincennes-Saint-Denis, France.
