Dance and the Alexander Technique

Dance and the Alexander Technique

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  • Author: Rebecca Nettl-Fiol
  • Publisher: University of Illinois Press
  • ISBN: 0252077938
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 218

Accompanying DVD-ROM contains film clips that demonstrate the concepts and applications of the Alexander Technique.


What Every Dancer Needs to Know About the Body

What Every Dancer Needs to Know About the Body

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  • Author: Robin Gilmore
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9781579998134
  • Category : Music
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 117


The Alexander Technique Resource Book

The Alexander Technique Resource Book

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  • Author: John B. Harer
  • Publisher: Scarecrow Press
  • ISBN: 0810863928
  • Category : Health & Fitness
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 192

The Alexander Technique is a hands-on educational method that helps individuals learn how to eliminate tension in the body caused by habitual limitations in the way they move and think. The health benefits of the Alexander Technique are both physical and emotional. It improves balance, posture, and stamina, and has been shown to improve cognitive functions. And it was practiced and endorsed by renowned philosopher and educator John Dewey. The Alexander Technique Resource Book provides guidance and information that aids in studying the technique and locating sources for further research in the field. It contains information on print, audio, video, and web-based resources, and includes a description of the basic principles and benefits of the Alexander Technique. This book benefits students, scholars, and researchers, as well as musicians, actors, and athletes looking to enhance performance in physical activities. It is a helpful resource for anyone seeking information on alternative and complementary medicines like the Alexander Technique.


The Body Eclectic

The Body Eclectic

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  • Author: Melanie Bales
  • Publisher: University of Illinois Press
  • ISBN: 0252074890
  • Category : Dance
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 282

A discussion of current practices in modern dance training


Galvanizing Performance

Galvanizing Performance

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  • Author: Kathleen Juhl
  • Publisher: Singing Dragon
  • ISBN: 085701272X
  • Category : Psychology
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 336

The Alexander Technique is a specific form of mind/body practice that focusses on improving efficiency through learning and understanding movement and behavior. Galvanizing Performances applies the teachings of this practice to the performing arts. Through theatre, music, and dance, the contributors, all artists themselves, demonstrate how deliberate movement can improve an individual's art and benefit their general health and wellbeing. Using specific case examples and in-depth analysis over a range of performance arts, this book supports instruction of effective movement and the Alexander Technique within different artistic disciplines for students and teachers alike.


The Routledge Companion to Dance Studies

The Routledge Companion to Dance Studies

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  • Author: Helen Thomas
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1315306530
  • Category : Performing Arts
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 741

The Routledge Companion to Dance Studies maps out the key features of dance studies as the field stands today, while pointing to potential future developments. It locates these features both historically—within dance in particular social and cultural contexts—and in relation to other academic influences that have impinged on dance studies as a discipline. The editors use a thematically based approach that emphasizes that dance scholarship does not stand alone as a single entity, but is inevitably linked to other related fields, debates, and concerns. Authors from across continents have contributed chapters based on theoretical, methodological, ethnographic, and practice-based case studies, bringing together a wealth of expertise and insight to offer a study that is in-depth and wide-ranging. Ideal for scholars and upper-level students of dance and performance studies, The Routledge Companion to Dance Studies challenges the reader to expand their knowledge of this vibrant, exciting interdisciplinary field.


Dance Teaching Methods and Curriculum Design

Dance Teaching Methods and Curriculum Design

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  • Author: Gayle Kassing
  • Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers
  • ISBN: 149257239X
  • Category : Dance
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 529

Dance Teaching Methods and Curriculum Design, Second Edition, presents a comprehensive model that prepares students to teach dance in school and community settings. It offers 14 dance units and many tools to help students learn to design lesson plans and units and create their own dance portfolio


Functional Awareness

Functional Awareness

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  • Author: Nancy Romita
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 0190498161
  • Category : Music
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 128

Functional Awareness: Anatomy in Action for Dancers is where anatomy meets artistry. Each chapter provides explorations in embodied anatomy in an engaging manner with the use of images, storytelling, and experiential exercises. It is an accessible introduction to the relationship between daily movement habits, dance training and anatomy. The information is founded on over 30,000 hours of experience teaching and training dancers to generate efficient exertion and appropriate recuperation. Functional Awareness: Anatomy in Action for Dancers employs somatic practices along with explorations in experiential anatomy to awaken the body-mind connection and improve movement function. The book applies the Functional Awareness® approach to improve dance technique and provide skills to enable the dancer to move with balance and grace in the classroom, on stage, and in daily life.


Teaching the Alexander Technique

Teaching the Alexander Technique

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  • Author: Cathy Madden
  • Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
  • ISBN: 0857013467
  • Category : Medical
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 296

Thoughtful and accessible, this guidebook unpacks the teaching process of the Alexander Technique for new and more experienced practitioners. By demonstrating the pathway from learning the Alexander Technique for oneself to teaching it, Madden identifies the skill sets required for excellence in teaching the Alexander Technique, and shows readers how they can acquire and develop these skills themselves. Observation, communication and tactile skills are all covered, and particular attention is paid to group teaching, which is neglected in current literature. This is combined with discussion of current research on education and neuroscience, enabling the reader to build a truly informed and effective practice. Featuring a variety of examples and stories, it will prove a valuable resource to any teacher of the Alexander Technique, both active and prospective, and to practitioners of other modalities exploring ways to deepen their practice.


Body and Performance

Body and Performance

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  • Author: Sandra Reeve
  • Publisher: Triarchy Press
  • ISBN: 1909470171
  • Category : Art
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 186

The first volume in this series, Nine Ways of Seeing a Body, explored different conceptions of the body in recent Western history (body as object, body as subject, somatic body, etc.).This new collection highlights 12 contemporary approaches to the body (lenses) that are currently being used by performers or in the context of performance training. The lenses draw on somatic practices like the Feldenkrais Method, the Alexander Technique and Body-Mind Centering, and approaches like Object Relations, Corporeal Feminism and Embodied Cognition. Other chapters illuminate the role of the body in music and devised performance, in experimental opera and in classical Sanskrit theatre. Instead of trying to 'improve' or 'enhance' the performer's body or vocal output, all 12 lenses emphasise the interdependence of body andplace, society, culture and other bodies. They also share the idea of the body as flux rather than fixed identity. Each approach is interlaced with a case study showing how it can be applied in practice. Students, dancers, performers, singers, musicians, directors and choreographers can find their own preferred approach(es) to the body-in-performance amongst the lenses described here and can explore alternatives that might enrich their current vocabulary.