Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- About This Book -- Part 1 Moving -- Day 1 Basic Concepts: Dance is both universal and highly personal. -- To Do: Orientation -- To Dance: Familiar-Voice Dancing -- To Write: Personal Orientation -- About the Tonic System -- Studio Notes: Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen -- Day 2 Attitudes: People have complex views about the dancing body. -- To Do: Finding Your Calcaneus -- To Dance: Opposite-Voice Dancing -- To Write: Why Dance? -- Studio Notes: David Dorfman -- Day 3 Flow: Flow is our oceanic heritage. -- To Do: Rolling and Pouring -- To Do: Spherical Awareness -- To Dance: Plumb-Line Falls -- To Write: Letting Words Flow -- Studio Notes: Kathleen Hermesdorf -- Day 4 Fire: Sometimes we need fire. -- Bone Marrow -- To Do: Vessel Breath -- To Dance: Dancing through the Body Systems -- To Write: Fire and You -- Studio Notes: Caryn McHose -- Day 5 Getting Started: You can only dance where you are. -- To Do: Three Long Walks -- To Dance: Presentations -- To Write: Creative Conditions -- Studio Notes: Penny Campbell -- Day 6 Training and Technique: We train for the unknown. -- What I Look for in a Performer (Tamar Rogoff) -- To Do: Hip Reflex -- To Dance: Light-Touch Duets -- To Write: Identify Your Strengths and Weaknesses -- Studio Notes: Jeanine Durning -- Day 7 Embracing Mystery: Dancing involves surrender. -- To Do: Breathing Spot -- To Do: Three-Part Breath -- To Dance: Refreshing What's Needed -- To Write: What's Your Experience of Mystery? -- Studio Notes: Suprapto Suryodarmo -- Being Seen, Being Moved: Authentic Movement and Performance, Part I -- Being Seen, Being Moved: Authentic Movement and Performance, Part II -- Day 8 Looking Back, Moving Forward: Dance history comes in several forms. -- To Do: Releasing the Jaw -- To Dance: Dance One Artist's Dance.

To Write: Your Dance Story -- Studio Notes: Nancy Stark Smith -- Studio Notes: Teena Marie Custer -- Part 2 Making -- Day 9 Improvising: Improvising can be experienced on a continuum. -- To Do: Freeing the Girdles -- To Dance: Dance Your Partner -- To Write: Improvisational Mind -- Studio Notes: Lisa Gonzales, Pamela Vail, and Michael Chorney -- Day 10 Composing: Composition is arranging. -- To Do: Four Movement Qualities -- To Dance: Framing -- To Dance: Composing with a Group -- To Do and Write: Dance-a-Day Notebook -- Studio Notes: Jim Coleman -- Day 11 Choreographing: Choreography involves the why of a thing. -- To Do: Contra-lateral Yield and Push -- To Dance: Building Trios -- To Write and Do: Concept-Driven Dance -- Studio Notes: David Dorfman -- Studio Notes: John Elder -- Day 12 Visceral Movement: How do you know whether you're moving or still? -- To Do: Pelvic Floor -- To Dance: The Antidote-to-the-Antidote Dance -- To Write: Artist's Statement -- Studio Notes: Bebe Miller -- Day 13 Rehearsing: The most stunning dancing happens in rehearsals. -- To Do: Ball of Energy -- To Dance: Body-Parts Duets -- To Dance: Declarations -- To Write: Reviewing Rehearsing -- Studio Notes: Peter Schmitz -- Day 14 Sound and Music: Ears are always open. -- To Do: Resonance -- To Dance: Dancing Twelve -- To Dance: DJ Time -- To Write: Music Journal -- Studio Notes: Michael Chorney -- Day 15 Space and Place: Space shapes the body, and the body shapes space. -- To Do: Parallel Lines in the Sand -- To Dance: Space Plan -- To Write and Do: Gestalt Dance -- Studio Notes: Chris Aiken -- Day 16 Endings: Don't abandon your ending. -- To Do: Practicing Ending -- To Dance: Calling End -- To Write: Ending? -- Studio Notes: Robert Swinston, on Merce Cunningham -- Part 3 Collaborating -- Day 17 Words and Feedback: Language shapes a way of thinking. -- WIGO.

Reinterpreting Butterflies -- To Do: Watching and Writing -- Watching a Dance -- To Dance: Dance-Back -- To Speak: Talking about Dancing -- To Write: Performance Response -- Studio Notes: Kate Trammell -- Studio Notes: Deborah Jowitt -- Day 18 Touch and Partnering: Touch and partnering involve a yield toward center. -- To Do: Layers of Touch -- To Dance: Landscapes -- To Write: Touching and Being Touched -- Studio Notes: Terry Creach -- Day 19 Vision: Vision links past with future and communicates the present. -- To Do: Expanding the Skull -- Visual Practices -- To Do: Flowing and Forming -- To Dance: Postcard Dances -- To Write: Vision Statement -- Studio Notes: Lisa Nelson -- Dance, Place, and Video: Otto Ramstad -- Day 20 Breath and Voice: Breath affects the phrasing and timing of movement and vocalization. -- To Do: Resonance -- To Do: Talking to the Floor -- To Dance: Dancing Your Story -- To Write and Present: Speaking Your Artist's Statement -- Studio Notes: Alex Draper -- Day 21 Textures, Fabrics, and Costumes: Costumes are experienced as part of the body. -- To Do: Costume Day -- To Dance: Opposite-Voice Costumes -- To Do and Write: Laying Out Possibilities -- Studio Notes: Heidi Henderson -- Day 22 Dancing with Light: Light makes things happen. -- To Do: Lighting Board -- To Dance: Four Lighting Possibilities -- To Write and Do: Light Your Dance with a Designer -- Seven Questions to Ask Yourself -- Studio Notes: Kathy Couch -- Day 23 From Studio to Stage: Performance week is a time to focus. -- To Do: Saying Your Name -- To Dance: Rehearsal Coaching -- To Write and Speak: Elevator Pitch -- Studio Notes: Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen -- Day 24 Performing: Performance invokes transformation. -- To Do: Tuning Stillness and Moving Warm-up -- To Dance: Thresholds -- To Write: What's Your Relationship to Performance? -- Studio Notes: Susan Prins.

Part 4 Living -- Day 25 Healthy Dancing: The nervous system governs our actions and reactions. -- To Do: Imagining the Cortex -- Central Nervous System -- To Dance: Dancing through the Nervous System, Part I -- To Write: What's Healthy Dancing to You? -- Studio Notes: Stuart Singer -- Day 26 Healing Dancing: Dancing and dance making create agency. -- To Do: Embodying the Four Layers of the Nervous System -- To Dance: Dancing through the Nervous System, Part II -- To Write: Reflecting on Writing -- Studio Notes: Paul Matteson -- Day 27 Teaching Dancing: Teaching is learning. -- To Do: Heel Foot and Ankle Foot -- To Dance: Extending Your Range -- To Write: Teaching Dancing -- Six Composing Basics -- Reviewing Ten Landmarks for Efficient Movement -- Studio Notes: David Dorfman -- Day 28 Dance and Yoga: Dance and yoga are longtime partners. -- To Do: Articulating Eight Horizontal Diaphragms -- To Dance: Preparations for Sun Salutation -- To Do and Write: Savasana -- Studio Notes: Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen -- Day 29 Nature and Creativity: Body is Earth. -- To Do: Place Map -- To Dance: BE-ING Score -- To Write: An Experience in Nature -- Studio Notes: Andrea Olsen, Art Making and the Environment -- Day 30 Concerning the Spiritual: Dance is embodied spirit. -- To Do: Three Contemplative Practices -- To Dance: Sacred Space -- To Write: A Sense of the Sacred -- Studio Notes: Janet Adler -- Day 31 Personal Project: Create your own chapter. -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Publication Credits -- Subject Index -- Art Index.