How to Land offers a new look at embodiment that treats gravity as the organizing force for thinking and moving through our twenty-first century world.

• Acknowledgements


• Introduction


• 1. Falling


• 2. Disorientation


• 3. Suspension


• 4. Gravity


• 5. Resilience


• 6. Connection


• Afterword


• References

Ann Cooper Albright is Professor of Dance at Oberlin College and author of Engaging Bodies: the Politics and Poetics of Corporeality (2013); Modern Gestures: Abraham Walkowitz Draws Isadora Duncan Dancing (2010); Traces of Light: Absence and Presence in the Work of Loie Fuller (2007); Choreographing Difference: the Body and Identity in Contemporary Dance (1997) and co-editor of Moving History/Dancing Cultures (2001), and Taken By Surprise: Improvisation in Dance and Mind (2003)