The Motional Improvisation of Al Wunder takes readers on a journey
through the life history, creative genealogies and unique working
processes of one of the master teachers of Euro-American postmodern
movement-based improvisational performance who has, until now,
received scant critical attention. The book offers a long overdue
examination of the significant impact made by an important figure
on grassroots movement-based improvisational performance in
1960s/1970s America and in Australia from the 1980s onwards. It
revisits the work of groundbreaking New York choreographer Alwin
Nikolais, with whom Wunder trained and for whom he later taught in
the 1960s; covers collaborations with founders of 'Action Theater'
Ruth Zaporah and 'Motivity Aerial Dance' Terry Sendgraff as part of
the explosion of improvisation in San Francisco in the 1970s and
tracks the consolidation of a unique pedagogy that would see
hundreds of students learn how to map their performative creativity
in Melbourne from the 1980s onwards. It conducts a fascinating
investigation into the wellsprings of Wunder's approach to
improvised performance as an end in itself, covering teaching
innovations such as his use of the Hum Drum, positive feedback,
personal power sources and articulators. It includes valuable
contributions from a number of ex-students and established
Australian artists in dance, music and visual art who share the
profound impact Wunder has made on their creative practices. This
book will be a valuable resource to movement/dance improvisation
students and teachers at undergraduate and postgraduate level and
independent artists drawn to movement improvisation as performance.
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