Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. 1. Bricolage. A dancing dialectic / Melanie Bales -- A New York dancer / Veronica Dittman -- Training as the medium through which / Melanie Bales -- A dance-musician's perspective: an interview with Natalie Gilbert / Melanie Bales -- Something old, something new, something borrowed / Joshua Monten -- Ballet for the post-Judson dancer / Melanie Bales -- pt. 2. Deconstruction. Somatics: an interview with Martha Myers / Rebecca Nettl-Fiol -- First it was dancing / Rebecca Nettl-Fiol -- Re-locating technique / Wendell Beavers -- Teaching alignment / Glenna Batson -- Falling, releasing, and post-Judson dance / Melanie Bales -- pt. 3. Training stories. Training stories -- Chris Aiken -- Stephen Koester -- David Dorfman -- Ralph Lemon -- Kathleen Fisher -- Bebe Miller -- Karen Graham -- Tere O'Connor -- Mark Haim -- Cynthia Oliver -- Angie Hauser -- Janet Panetta -- Sara Hook -- Kraig Patterson -- Irene Hultman -- Shelley Washington / Melanie Bales and Rebecca Nettl-Fiol.