Dance imagery for technique and performance /
By: Franklin, Eric N [author.].
Publisher: Leeds : Human Kinetics, 2014Edition: 2nd edition.Description: xvi, 374 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.Content type: text | still image | text | still image Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9780736067881; 9780736067881:; 0736067884.Subject(s): Dance![](/opac-tmpl/bootstrap/images/filefind.png)
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Includes bibliographical references (page 362-367) and index.
Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- History, theory and uses of imagery -- Types and effectiveness of imagery -- Discovering imagery -- Basic movement imagery and exercises -- Imagery in dance improvisation -- Teaching dance with imagery -- Floorwork, walking and running -- Plié -- Tendu-based movements -- Développé and other extensions -- Arabesque, attitude and Grand Battement -- Swings, arches and spirals -- Upper-body gestures -- Turns -- Jumps -- Partnering -- Imagery and performance quality -- Rest and regeneration -- Epilogue -- references and resources -- index -- About the author.
"Renowned master teacher Eric Franklin has thoroughly updated his classic text, Dance Imagery for Technique and Performance, providing dancers and dance educators with a deep understanding of how they can use imagery to improve their dancing and artistic expression in class and in performance." --Publisher description.
Franklin provides a selection of imagery exercises to improve dance technique, artistic expression and performance. More than 300 illustrations highlight the images, and the exercises can be put to use in dance movement and choreography.