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Part I explores using imagery with improvisation. You'll find exercises centered on the body's basic movement images. These improvisational exercises will encourage you to explore new inner landscapes to create and communicate different movement qualities. Part II provides imagery exercises you can immediately use to improve technique. The book also provides guidelines for applying imagery within the dance class repertoire: You'll learn how to use imagery to convey information about steps and to clarify the intent and content of a movement. In addition, you'll find 40 imagery exercises that focus on active imagination and symbolism, the performance environment, and the audience in the creative process.
Part IV presents 34 exercises to help restore and regenerate the body through guided imagery used with massage and touch.
The book details the ideokinetic constructive rest position and Sweigard's nine lines of action. With Dance Imagery for Technique and Performance , you'll discover how to use the power of your imagination to enhance performances. Paperback , pages.
To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Dance Imagery for Technique and Performance , please sign up. Be the first to ask a question about Dance Imagery for Technique and Performance. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. The 1st time I read it was two years ago and although it was interesting, I wasn't ready for it. This time, it seems I finally know just about enough to appreciate the text and apply some of Franklin's imagery in practice.
It is a beautifully done text that goes in great depth, and yet remains simple and purposeful. It is a book to be re-read regularly, as our "alignment changes throughout the day and will be changing This is the 2nd time I read Eric Franklin's Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery.
It is a book to be re-read regularly, as our "alignment changes throughout the day and will be changing throughout [our] life. Awareness of how to maximize postural potential on a given day is much more useful than using a fixed set of postural rules" p. I will definitely be consulting the book often as I find it totally eye-opening in many respects, and there are plenty of imagery exercises that I still haven't tried.
He has more than 35 years' experience as a dancer and choreographer, and he has shared imagery techniques in his teaching since Check this guy out; he's awesome. Jul 19, Jeremy Swenson rated it liked it.
I just finished this book for my wife. I was reviewing for appropriateness as a middle school dance text book. As a none dancer I found it interesting especially the exercises in imagery. Laura rated it liked it Sep 04, Christopher rated it it was amazing Feb 19, Dena rated it really liked it Jun 29, Ana Sanchez rated it it was amazing Oct 18, Arlina Espinoza rated it it was ok Dec 21, Matthew rated it it was amazing Sep 15, Janet rated it really liked it Nov 14, Let the image sink in before you begin.
At the end of an improvisation exercise it is valuable for the members of the group to communicate their experience with each other. These discussions are often rich sources of information on the relationship between imagery and movement. The number of spatial paths is infinite. Think of all the spatial paths you have taken in your life as lines drawn on an immense canvas.
Let the image sink in before you begin. Sometimes this effect is used in choreography, as seen in this excerpt of a review of Le Sacre du printemps: Gust of wind without a partner: The path ahead of you: Part I explores using imagery with improvisation. This Item is currently out of stock. When working with a group, it is a good idea to watch each other improvise.
Imagine that your fast movements have made thick lines and your slow movements thin ones, and behold a design of stupendous proportions. Explore spatial paths by drawing lines on a piece of paper and then transposing them into space. Inspiration for spatial paths is everywhere - in a jumble of sticks by the road or even in a bowl of spaghetti. I once laid my head down in a hotel the day before teaching a workshop in Germany and discovered an interesting spatial path in the form of a curtain figure 5.
You can initiate movement from anywhere in the body. In certain movements, you want to initiate equally from the whole body. In others, you initiate from a specific place, such as the string attached to the finger pulling into space. The inside of the body can move the surface, such as a bag of helium-filled balloons pushing up into the sky figure 5.
Get the latest news, special offers, and updates on authors and products. Please Sign In or Create an Account. Social Studies in Sport and Physical Activity. Athletic Training, Therapy, and Rehabilitation. Imagery Improvisation Exercises The following exercises are separated by categories, but these categories are somewhat arbitrary and overlapping. Spatial Path The number of spatial paths is infinite.
Exercises for Creating a Spatial Path Explain the path: This exercise is appropriate for children from age 4, and it is equally valuable for adults in fostering the ability to visualize spatial paths. The exercise is done with a partner and music. Decide who will be person A and who will be B. Person A creates a path through space as long as the music plays not too long to start. To do this, B must be able to visualize the spatial path. Reverse roles and replay the music as person B finds a path through space.
The path ahead of you: Visualize a path in space, such as a long, meandering arrow. Move along the path to the end of the arrow. Then visualize the continuation of the spatial path, and move along that path to its end. Do not go farther than you can visualize. See how far you can extend your path and still remember it once you have started on your way.
The path behind you: How long can you maintain the image of your trace? As you move, see yourself being guided through space by an imaginary slide with perfect depth and width figure 5. Exercises for Initiation Windy weather: Gust of wind with a partner: Your partner initiates the movement in your body by giving you a gentle push as if a gust of wind were blowing at a specific area. Gust of wind without a partner: Once you have gained some experience with a partner, you can do the exercise alone: Imagine the wind pushing against a body part to make you move.
Adapted from Body Weather practices. Imagine wind blowing through you. Imagine your central axis to be a rope with fluttering flags.
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