Improvisation in Dance and the Movement of Everyday Life. / Worth, Libby.

The Oxford Handbook of Improvisation in Dance. ed. / Vida L Midgelow. 1. ed. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019. p. 1-13.

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Improvisation in Dance and the Movement of Everyday Life. / Worth, Libby.

The Oxford Handbook of Improvisation in Dance. ed. / Vida L Midgelow. 1. ed. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019. p. 1-13.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

Harvard

Worth, L 2019, Improvisation in Dance and the Movement of Everyday Life. in VL Midgelow (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Improvisation in Dance. 1 edn, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199396986.013.28

APA

Worth, L. (2019). Improvisation in Dance and the Movement of Everyday Life. In V. L. Midgelow (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Improvisation in Dance (1 ed., pp. 1-13). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199396986.013.28

Vancouver

Worth L. Improvisation in Dance and the Movement of Everyday Life. In Midgelow VL, editor, The Oxford Handbook of Improvisation in Dance. 1 ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2019. p. 1-13 https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199396986.013.28

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Worth, Libby. / Improvisation in Dance and the Movement of Everyday Life. The Oxford Handbook of Improvisation in Dance. editor / Vida L Midgelow. 1. ed. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019. pp. 1-13

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