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Dance Imagery for Technique and Performance / Edition 2
- ISBN-10:
- 0736067884
- ISBN-13:
- 9780736067881
- Pub. Date:
- 09/30/2013
- Publisher:
- Human Kinetics Publishers
- ISBN-10:
- 0736067884
- ISBN-13:
- 9780736067881
- Pub. Date:
- 09/30/2013
- Publisher:
- Human Kinetics Publishers
Dance Imagery for Technique and Performance / Edition 2
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Overview
These features are new to this edition:
•Two chapters include background, history, theory, and uses of imagery.
•294 exercises offer dancers and dance educators greater opportunities to experience how imagery can enhance technique and performance.
•133 illustrations facilitate the use of imagery to improve technique, artistic expression, and performance.
•Four exercises taught by Franklin and available on HK’s website help dancers with essential rest and relaxation techniques.
Franklin provides hundreds of imagery exercises to refine improvisation, technique, and choreography. The 295 illustrations cover the major topics in the book, showing exercises to use in technique, artistic expression, and performance. In addition, Franklin supplies imagery exercises that can restore and regenerate the body through massage, touch, and stretching. And he offers guidance in using imagery to convey information about a dancer’s steps and to clarify the intent and content of movement.
This new edition of Dance Imagery for Technique and Performance can be used with Franklin’s Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery, Second Edition, or on its own. Either way, readers will learn how to combine technical expertise with imagery skills to enrich their performance, and they will discover methods they can use to explore how imagery connects with dance improvisation and technique.
Dance Imagery for Technique and Performance uses improvisation exercises to help readers investigate new inner landscapes to create and communicate various movement qualities, provides guidelines for applying imagery in the dance class, and helps dancers expand their repertoire of expressiveness in technique and performance across ballet, modern, and contemporary dance.
This expanded edition of Dance Imagery for Technique and Performance supplies imagery tools for enhancing or preparing for performance, and it introduces the importance of imagery in dancing and teaching dance. Franklin’s method of using imagery in dance is displayed throughout this lavishly illustrated book, and the research from scientific and dance literature that supports Franklin’s method is detailed.
The text, exercises, and illustrations make this book a practical resource for dancers and dance educators alike.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780736067881 |
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Publisher: | Human Kinetics Publishers |
Publication date: | 09/30/2013 |
Edition description: | Second Edition |
Pages: | 392 |
Sales rank: | 623,233 |
Product dimensions: | 8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 1.00(d) |
Age Range: | 18 Years |
About the Author
Franklin has taught extensively throughout the United States and Europe at the Julliard School in New York, Royal Ballet School in London, Danish Ballet in Copenhagen, Dance Academy of Rome, and Institute for Psychomotor Therapy in Zurich. He was also a guest lecturer at the University of Vienna. He has provided training to Olympic and world-champion athletes and professional dance troupes such as Cirque du Soleil and the Forum de Dance in Monte Carlo. Franklin earned a BFA from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and a BS from the University of Zurich. He has been on the faculty of the American Dance Festival since 1991.
Franklin is coauthor of the best-selling book Breakdance, which received a New York City Public Library Prize in 1984, and author of 100 Ideen für Beweglichkeit and Dance Imagery for Technique and Performance (both books about imagery in dance and movement). He is a member of the International Association for Dance Medicine and Science.
Franklin lives near Zurich, Switzerland.
Table of Contents
Part I. Art and Science of ImageryChapter 1. History, Theory, and Uses of Imagery
Defining Imagery
Historical Perspectives
Emerging Theories on Imagery
Benefits of Using Imagery in Dance
Summary
Chapter 2. Types and Effectiveness of Imagery
Direct Imagery
Types of Imagery
Imagery Strings
Making Imagery Effective
Summary
Part II. Discovering and Exploring Imagery
Chapter 3. Discovering Imagery
Nature
Movies
Literary Arts
Music
Visual Arts
Propensity Toward Imagery
Summary
Chapter 4. Basic Movement Imagery and Exercises
Intention
Whole-Body Sensation
Space
Weight
Music and Rhythm
Connections Through the Body
Breath and Flow
Summary
Chapter 5. Imagery in Dance Improvisation
Improvisation and Dance Technique
Improvisation With Children
Imagery Improvisation Exercises
Contact Improvisation and Imagery
Butoh
Summary
Part III. Imagery in Dance Technique Classes
Chapter 6. Teaching Dance With Imagery
Elements of Making Progress
Function and Anatomy
Effort and Tension
Alignment Paradox
Guidelines for Teachers
Guidelines for Students
Summary
Chapter 7. Floorwork, Walking, and Running
Floorwork
Pelvis as a Strong Sitting Base
Upper-Body Motion While Sitting
Falls to the Floor
Rolls on the Ground
Floor Barre
Stillness and Slow Movement
The Foot
Walking and Running
Summary
Chapter 8. Plié
Force Absorption in Plié
Imagery for Plié
Summary
Chapter 9. Tendu-Based Movements
Battement Tendu/Dégagé (Jeté)
Rond de Jambe à Terre
Battement Fondu (Demi-Plié on One Leg)
Battement Frappé
Summary
Chapter 10. Développé and Other Extensions
Creating Smooth Action in the Hip Joint
Extensions to the Back
Releasing Tension, Embodying Fascia
Summary
Chapter 11. Arabesque, Attitude, and Grand Battement
Research on Imagery for the Plié Arabesque
Art and Science of Balance
Grand Battement
Summary
Chapter 12. Swings, Arches, and Spirals
Swings and Arches
Spirals
Summary
Chapter 13. Upper-Body Gestures
Port de Bras (Arm Gestures)
Hands
Face
Eyes
Neck
Summary
Chapter 14. Turns
From Crawls to Pirouettes
Natural Turners
What You Can Learn From a Spinning Top
Turning With the Whole Body
Angular Motion
Phases of Turning in Pirouettes
Summary
Chapter 15. Jumps
Speed and Leverage
Anatomical Considerations
The Foot in Jumping
Elastic Leaps and Rhythmic Rebound
Traveling Leaps and Turning Leaps
Breathing Before Jumping
Arms and Leaping
Floors and Soft Landings
The Sky Is the Limit
Summary
Chapter 16. Partnering
Requirements for Partnering
Connecting With Your Partner
Using Imagery in Partnering
Summary
Part IV. Imagery in Choreography, Rest, and Regeneration
Chapter 17. Imagery and Performance Quality
Expressivity
Authenticity
Endowment
Magical Outfit
Performance Environment
Relationship With the Audience
Your History
Stepping Onstage
Summary
Chapter 18. Rest and Regeneration
Using Your Hands
Releasing Touch
Constructive Rest
Guided Imagery
Summary
What People are Saying About This
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""Using imagery brings a greater richness to a dancer's physical technique and expression, and Franklin's book furnishes the creative tools to accomplish this.""Jeanette StonerDancer, choreographer, and teacherNew York City
""Every dancer goes through temporary slumps when it seems hard to find inspiration and when even maintenance is a struggle. Franklin's book combines information and creativity in a way that lends freshness to steps worked on for years. It provides a resource for renewal--a companion, master teacher at your fingertips.""June BalishDancer, New York City
""In his exceedingly interesting and original Dance Imagery for Technique and Performance, Eric Franklin has resourcefully drawn from the inner world of imagined experience a rich variety of incentives for feeling movement from the depths of one's being. Images called into action, have the power to release a dancer's full potential.""Ernestine StodelleAdjunct Professor, New York UniversityAuthor of The Dance Technique of Doris Humphrey and Its Creative Potential and Deep Song: The Dance Story of Martha Graham
""Dance Imagery for Technique and Performance by Eric Franklin, an excellent text for students and teachers, introduces the science of kinetics to teaching and performance. Dancers, teachers, and choreographers will find themselves using this book over and over again.""David Howard, DirectorDavid Howard School of Ballet, New York City
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Reference for dancers and text for undergraduate dance students taking improvisation, choreography, and dance technique courses. Reference for dance educators in performing arts and somatic education.