Dancing life
Lisa Nelson began her training in traditional modern dance and ballet as a child at the Juilliard School in New York City and then Bennington College in Vermont. In the 1970s, she became interested in diverse approaches to dance improvisation, including performing with Daniel Nagrin’s Workgroup in 1971-72. In 1973, she began a ten year investigation of video and dance from which she developed an approach to spontaneous composition and performance under the name ''Tuning Scores.'' Beginning in 1974, she took part, along with dancers Steve Paxton, Nancy Stark Smith and others, in the early evolution of contact improvisation, and was a crucial observer of its development through her work with video. In the ensuing decades, she has worked extensively with Steve Paxton, in particular on two improvisation duets that they performed together for several decades: ''PA RT'' (1978) and ''Night Stand'' (2004). Throughout the 1990s, in collaboration witBibliography
On Lisa Nelson's work and the Tuning Scores
* Corin, Florence (éd.). 2001. ''Vu du corps. Lisa Nelson. Mouvement et perception''. Nouvelles de danse, #48-49. Bruxelles, Belgium: Contredanse. * De Spain, Kent. 2014. ''Landscape of the Now: A Topography of Movement Improvisation''. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. * Noë, Alva. 2006. Tuning the Body. ''Ballettanz''. * coloring pages. 2022Writings and interviews with Lisa Nelson
* Bieringa, Olive and Ramstad, Otto. 2014References
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