The Essential Guide to Contemporary Dance Techniques - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Essential Guide to Contemporary Dance Techniques write by Melanie Clarke. This book was released on 2020-03-23. The Essential Guide to Contemporary Dance Techniques available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Essential Guide to Contemporary Dance Techniques explores the multifaceted learning processes and underlying principles behind the technical skills and abilities of a contemporary dancer. The depth and complexity of this challenging sensorial, intellectual, reflective and creative process is presented with clarity, to support every training dancer in achieving the most from their learning experiences. Insights into three major technical forms: Graham technique, Cunningham technique and Release-based technique, reveal the distinct approaches, processes and experiences possible in contemporary dance training. Essential technical and performance considerations are covered, including: breath; alignment; core activation; connectivity; dynamic qualities of motion; use of the body; use of space; action and finally, relationships to the audience. With personal contributions from respected teachers at top dance institutions, this practical guide offers a unique insight into the expectations and processes of professional training classes as well as the success you can achieve with them. With images from real-life technique classes and dynamic performances, this is an essential companion for all contemporary dance students.
Introduction to Modern Dance Techniques
Introduction to Modern Dance Techniques - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Introduction to Modern Dance Techniques write by Joshua Legg. This book was released on 2011. Introduction to Modern Dance Techniques available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Each unit contains core ideas, a series of journaling and discussion topics, improvisation experiments, biographical sketches of the choreographers, and a presentation of-class material. At the end of each chapter, questions and experiments offer basic ideas that you can use to further your understanding of the choreography presented. --
Ballet
Ballet - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ballet write by Jennifer Jackson. This book was released on 2021-03-22. Ballet available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ballet is a detailed guide to creative practice and performance. Compiled by ten leading practitioners, each chapter focuses on an aspect of ballet as a performing art. Together they outline a journey from the underpinning principles of ballet, through an appreciation of different styles and schooling, into the dance studio for practice in class and beyond. With additional insights from highly acclaimed dancers, choreographers and teachers, this practical guide offers advice on fundamental and advanced training and creative development. As well as providing information from dance science research into training well-being, this book supports the individual dancer in their artistic growth, offering strategies for exploration and discovery. Topics include: principles, styles and schooling of classical ballet; fundamental technique and advanced expression; developing versatility and creative thinking; advice on injury management, nutrition and lifestyle; choreography and music and, finally, best practice in the rehearsal studio is covered. 'A wonderfully accessible and comprehensive resource about the individual disciplines involved in ballet', Leanne Benjamin OBE, former Principal of The Royal Ballet and international coach.
The Dance Technique of Lester Horton
The Dance Technique of Lester Horton - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Dance Technique of Lester Horton write by Marjorie B. Perces. This book was released on 1992. The Dance Technique of Lester Horton available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A guide to the principles of dance and training developed by Lester Horton. It includes a foreword by Alvin Ailey, reminiscences of early Lester Horton technique by Bella Lewitzky, and a three-dimensional portrait of the life and work of Lester Horton by Jana Frances-Fischer.
Essential Guide to Dance, 3rd edition
Essential Guide to Dance, 3rd edition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Essential Guide to Dance, 3rd edition write by Linda Ashley. This book was released on 2012-04-13. Essential Guide to Dance, 3rd edition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This third edition of the bestselling text ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO DANCE is thoroughly updated to meet the new AS/A2 specifications and relevant Applied A-levels, BTEC and other Dance qualifications. Now in full colour, highly illustrated, and packed with tasks and activities to cover all aspects of current courses, this text will appeal to both teachers and students. Students are brought right up to date with clear explanations of choreography, performance and appreciation of Dance, as well as recent examples of new set works and choreographers. With further video and photo interactive analysis tasks, the addition of short revision tests and updated professional examples alongside many contemporary photographs, ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO DANCE Third Edition provides students with comprehensive support and guidance. With its emphasis on the practical aspects of Dance and its interactive features that encourage effective learning, ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO DANCE Third Edition will be essential for all students of Dance and their teachers. Linda Ashley has extensive experience as a writer, choreographer, performer and teacher of Dance. Linda is currently Dance Research Leader at AUT University, New Zealand, Linda has written several Dance titles, published in the UK and New Zealand, including the two previous bestselling editions of ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO DANCE, both published by Hodder.
