This is the first book to approach choreography through content rather than structure.
Author: Daniel Nagrin
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 9780822972259
Category: Performing Arts
Page: 274
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Spiced with wit and strong opinions, the third installment in Daniel Nagrin's trilogy explores the art of choreography through the life's work of an important artist. This is the first book to approach choreography through content rather than structure.with impatience for some young choreographer to read those pages and be
inspired to create a strong and beautiful ... of an exercise, each person is to let
her.his mind roam over the given area of interest until one specific image asserts
itself.
Author: Daniel Nagrin
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 9780822978886
Category: Performing Arts
Page: 223
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The first in a trilogy of books by one of the leading figures in American dance, Dance and the Specific Image includes more than 100 improvisational structures that Daniel Nagrin created with his company, the Workgroup, and taught in dance classes and workshops throughout the United States. Robby Barnett of the Pilobolus Dance Theater called the book "a vivid and fascinating document of his thinking—more movement and performance and, of course, on his own extraordinary life in dance."'Dancefilm: Choreography and the Moving Image' examines the ways choreographic elements inform cinematic operations in dancefilm.
Author: Erin Brannigan
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780195367249
Category: Performing Arts
Page: 224
View: 102
'Dancefilm: Choreography and the Moving Image' examines the ways choreographic elements inform cinematic operations in dancefilm. It examines some of the most significant collaborations between dancers, choreographers & filmmakers presenting new models of cinematic movement that are historically informed.This book will explore in terms of movement alone the acting techniques that can
enhance and e liberate dance performance. The term specific image was the
keynote of my previous book e Dance and the Specific Image: Improvisation ...
Author: Daniel Nagrin
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 9780822971788
Category: Performing Arts
Page: 240
View: 836
Writing in Dance Research Journal, Joellen A. Meglin of Temple University called The Six Questions, "a nerve-hitting, nitty-gritty, accept-nothing-bogus, action-painted account of the dance performance process based on a lifetime of creative performance, choreography, and teaching." Nagrin's second volume focuses on the theory of acting technique for dance performance and includes a workbook of exercises.Research in dance education of the type included in this section was virtually non
-existent in most European countries 40 ... 1997) and Daniel Nagrin (1994, 1997)
is also influential; his Choreography and the Specific Image: Nineteen Essays ...
Author: Jo Butterworth
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781136447495
Category: Performing Arts
Page: 458
View: 978
This innovative text provides a range of articles covering choreographic enquiry, investigation into the creative process, and traditional understandings of dance making. Contemporary Choreography features contributions by practitioners and researchers from Europe, America, Africa, Australasia and the Asia-Pacific region, investigating the field in six broad domains: • Conceptual and philosophic concerns • Educational settings • Communities • Changing aesthetics • Intercultural choreography • Choreography’s relationships with other disciplines By capturing the essence and progress of choreography in the twenty-first century this reader supports and encourages rigorous thinking and research for future generations of dance practitioners and scholars.Finishing touches Choreographers must learn to look at the total picture that is
created in their work . ... It might even be helpful to keep a record of specific
images in your journal that you experienced during the choreographic process .
Author: Sandra Cerny Minton
Publisher: Human Kinetics
ISBN: 0736064761
Category: Performing Arts
Page: 164
View: 515
Solve common problems in choreography, design and shape movements into a dance, and organize a concert. Each chapter offers movement exploration exercises, review and reflection questions, and application challenges to help you understand the choreographic process from concept to stage performances. --back cover.... add a variety of images. For example, say, “Can you dance with free flow like a
river, a waterfall, a gentle breeze, a wild wind? ... you think of?” and “Why?” In
other words, what dance concepts were used that brought forth a particular
image?
Author: Anne Green Gilbert
Publisher: Human Kinetics
ISBN: 9781492584674
Category: Performing Arts
Page: 376
View: 448
Creative Dance for All Ages, Second Edition, has had a long history of providing a dance curriculum to teachers and students preparing to teach creative dance. Author Anne Gilbert demystifies expectations when teaching creative dance and provides the theory, methods, and lesson ideas for success in a variety of settings and with students of all ages. This one-stop resource offers dance teachers everything they need, including a sequential curriculum, lesson plans, instructional strategies, assessment, and other forms. It’s like having a seasoned dance teacher at your side offering inspiration and guidance all year long. Internationally recognized master teacher and author Anne Gilbert Green presents creative dance for everyone and tips on meeting the challenges of teaching it. She offers a complete package for teaching creative dance that includes the theory, methodology, and lesson plans for various age groups that can be used in a variety of settings. Gilbert also offers an entire dance curriculum for sequential teaching and learning. The second edition of her classic text has been revised, reorganized, and updated to meet all the needs of dance teachers. The second edition of Creative Dance for All Ages includes these new features: • An easy-to-navigate format helps you quickly access the material and find lesson planning and assessment tools. • Content reflects changes in the field of dance education to put you on the cutting edge. • Forty age-appropriate and brain-compatible lesson plans are accessible through the web resource, which save prep time and help ensure compliance with the latest standards. • Five downloadable video clips demonstrate the lesson plans and teaching strategies and how to put them to work in the classroom. • Suggestions for modifying lessons help you include students of all abilities. • Eight assessment forms and curriculum planning templates are adaptable to your needs. If you’re a novice teacher, the book also contains these features to ensure effective instruction: • The same conceptual approach to teaching dance was used in the first edition. • A sequential dance curriculum helps you systematically cover a 10-week quarter or 16-week semester. • Class management tips put you in control from the first day. Creative Dance for All Ages, Second Edition, is an unparalleled resource for dance educators who are looking for a conceptual creative dance curriculum that will support teaching to learners of all ages. Whether in a studio, company, recreational, or educational setting, you will discover a comprehensive and well-rounded approach to teaching dance, emphasizing the how as much as the why.... Improvised Dance as a Practice of Freedom (2010) Danielle Goldman
University of Michigan Press Taken by Surprise: ... The Improvisation of Presence
(1995) Ruth Zaporah North Atlantic Books Dance and the Specific Image:
Improvisation ...
Author: Kent De Spain
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199988280
Category: Performing Arts
Page: 336
View: 381
In Landscape of the Now, author Kent De Spain takes readers on a deep journey into the underlying processes and structures of postmodern movement improvisation. Based on a series of interviews with master teachers who have developed unique approaches that are taught around the world - Steve Paxton, Simone Forti, Lisa Nelson, Deborah Hay, Nancy Stark Smith, Barbara Dilley, Anna Halprin, and Ruth Zaporah - this book offers the rare opportunity to find some clarity in what is often a complex and confusing experience. After more than 20 years of research, De Spain has created an extensive list of questions that explore issues that arise for the improviser in practice and performance as well as resources that influence movements and choices. Answers to these questions are placed side by side to create dialog and depth of understanding, and to see the range of possible approaches experienced improvisers might explore. In its nineteen chapters, Landscape of the Now delves into issues like the influence of an audience on an improviser's choices or how performers "track" and use their experience of the moment. The book also looks at the role of cognitive skills, memory, space, emotion, and the senses. One chapter offers a rare opportunity for an honest discussion of the role of various forms of spirituality in what is seen as a secular dance form. Whether read from cover to cover or pulled apart and explored a subject at a time, Landscape of the Now offers the reader a kind of map into the mysterious realm of human creativity, and the wisdom and experience of artists who have spent a lifetime exploring it.The social status of the performer appears to derive from the particular history of
solo dance ( as compared with tribal or rural folk dance ) . When paid
performance is involved , the performer may be highly appreciated by her
audience , yet her ...
Author: Sherifa Zuhur
Publisher: American Univ in Cairo Press
ISBN: 9774244672
Category: Performing Arts
Page: 324
View: 458
This original and multidimensional book brings a refreshing new approach to the study of the arts of the Middle East. By dealing in one volume with dance, music, painting, and cinema, as experienced and practiced not only within the Middle East but also abroad, Images of Enchantment breaks down the artificial distinctions--of form, geography, 'high' and 'low' art, performer and artist--that are so often used to delineate the subjects and processes of Middle Eastern artistic culture. The eighteen essays in this book cover themes as diverse as Bedouin dance, the music of Arab Americans, cinema in Egypt and Iran, Hollywood representations of the Middle East, and contemporary Sudanese painting. The contributions come from scholars and critics and from the artists themselves. Together, they present a wide-ranging and holistic view of the arts in their social, political, anthropological, and gender contexts. Contributors: Walter Armbrust, Farida Ben Lyazid, Kay Hardy Campbell, Virginia Danielson, Marjorie Franken, Sondra Hale, Carolee Kent, Hamid Naficy, Salwa Mikdadi Nashashibi, Anne K. Rasmussen, Selim Sednaoui, Simon Shaheen, Rebecca Stone, Chaïbia Talal, Karin Van Nieuwkerk, William Young, Sherifa Zuhur.Dance , Power , and Difference : Critical and Feminist Perspectives on Dance
Education . Champaign ... On the Count of One : Modern Dance Teaching
Methods . ... Choreography and the Specific Image : Nineteen Essays and a
Workbook .
Author: Anne Green Gilbert
Publisher: Amer Alliance for Health Physical
ISBN: UOM:39015064205613
Category: Performing Arts
Page: 346
View: 333
This classic "must have" is NDA's most popular publication. Includes locomotor/nonlocomotor movement, assessment, and interdisciplinary topics.Helen Tamiris and the Dance Historians . ” Society of Dance History Scholars .
Proceedings , 12th annual conference . University of California , 1989 , p . 15 - 43
. Dance and the Specific Image : Improvisation . Pittsburgh : University of ...
Author: Society of Dance History Scholars (U.S.). Conference
Publisher:
ISBN: UCSC:32106018317823
Category: Dance
Page: 224
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He choreographed seventeen works for his dance group , also creating costumes
and decor for most of the pieces ... The Six Questions : Acting Technique for
Dance Performance ( 1997 ) and Choreography and the Specific Image ( 2001 ) .
Author: Harriet R. Lihs
Publisher: Princeton Book Company Pub
ISBN: UOM:39015054347904
Category: Performing Arts
Page: 132
View: 520
Written for the dance novice, this book is a concise, thorough, and accurate history of all forms of dance. It gives a brief biography of many of the notable dancers and choreographers who have contributed to each form of dance, and provides, in a nutshell, the information needed to expand the enjoyment of performance. It also details the history of dance from its earliest beginnings and covers the intersection of dance and religion, social dance, ballet, modern dance, tap, jazz, film dance, and contemporary dance.that dance , Jesse ? . . . why do you act like black people are the only ones
oppressed ? ... a choreography outlined and titled “ A Duet in Nagrin ' s Dance
and the Specific Image : Improvisation , then the specific image before Jesse is
not black ...
Author: Maurice O. Wallace
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
ISBN: UOM:39015055087152
Category: Social Science
Page: 236
View: 726
Explores how African-American males have been portrayed in literature and society from 1775 to 1995.( V ) ( LD ) Choreography and the Specific Image " ( lecture and workshop )
Dance Program A Dept . of Physical Education , Dance , and Leisure Studies
Ahearn Gym , Room 203 Kansas State University Manhattan , Kansas 66506
PETER ...
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: UOM:39015013610160
Category: Dance
Page:
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Critics' tendency to focus on language and image in his work has led, in spite of a
few notable exceptions, to the ... for specific plays, showing that Beckett's
understanding of contemporary choreography began with his spectatorship of
dance in ...
Author: Susan Jones
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199565320
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 346
View: 586
The book identifies a complex reciprocal relationship between literature and dance in the modernist period. An unprecedented dialogue between the two art forms took place based on contemporary discussions of the body and gender, language, formal experimentation, primitivism, anthropology, and modern technologies such as photography, film, and mechanisation. By examining the work of writers such as Yeats, Woolf, Eliot, Pound, Lawrence, and Beckett in relation tothe choreography of the Ballets Russes, early British ballet, and European and American modern dance, the book traces the origins of this relationship in the nineteenth century and examines experimentation in both art forms up to the first half of the twentieth century. The book illustrates theimportant but often neglected transmissions and negotiations between these art forms at a time of intense experimentation and transatlantic exchange.Murray , Ruth Lovell . Dance in Elementary Education . 3rd ed . NY : Harper ,
1975 . Nagrin , Daniel . Dance and the Specific Image : Improvisation . Pittsburgh
: Pittsburgh UP : 1994 . National Dance Association . Early Childhood Creative
Arts ...
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: WISC:89073496903
Category: Dance
Page: 287
View: 913
Publications : How to Dance Forever : Surviving as a Dancer , 1988 ; Dance and
the Specific Image : Improvisation , 1993 ; Choreography and the Specific Image :
Nineteen Essays and a Workbook , 2001 . Contributor to dance journals .
Author: Miranda H. Ferrara
Publisher:
ISBN: 1558625267
Category:
Page: 1094
View: 163
Body, Image, and Space in the Historical Avant-Gardes Gabriele Brandstetter ...
He first recognized the specific potential inherent in “the art of drapery” while
developing his first dance studies of ancient sculpture: The great beauty, the
great ...
Author: Gabriele Brandstetter
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780190266868
Category: Performing Arts
Page: 456
View: 839
When it was first published in Germany in 1995, Poetics of Dance was already seen as a path-breaking publication, the first to explore the relationships between the birth of modern dance, new developments in the visual arts, and the renewal of literature and drama in the form of avant-garde theatrical and movement productions of the early twentieth-century. Author Gabriele Brandstetter established in this book not only a relation between dance and critical theory, but in fact a full interdisciplinary methodology that quickly found foothold with other areas of research within dance studies. The book looks at dance at the beginnings of the 20th century, the time during which modern dance first began to make its radical departure from the aesthetics of classical ballet. Brandstetter traces modern dance's connection to new innovations and trends in visual and literary arts to argue that modern dance is in fact the preeminent symbol of modernity. As Brandstetter demonstrates, the aesthetic renewal of dance vocabulary which was pursued by modern dancers on both sides of the Atlantic - Isadora Duncan and Loie Fuller, Valeska Gert and Oskar Schlemmer, Vaslav Nijinsky and Michel Fokine - unfurled itself in new ideas about gender and subjectivity in the arts more generally, thus reflecting the modern experience of life and the self-understanding of the individual as an individual. As a whole, the book makes an important contribution to the theory of modernity.Michelle Kazensky. How to Dance Forever : Surviving as a Dancer , 1988 ;
Dance and the Specific Image : Improvisation , 1993 ; Choreography and the
Specific Image : Nineteen Essays and a Workbook , 2001 . Contributor to dance
journals .
Author: Michelle Kazensky
Publisher: Saint James Press
ISBN: 155862600X
Category: Authors
Page: 2501
View: 582
Features bibliographical, biographical and contact information for living authors worldwide who have at least one English publication. Entries include name, pseudonyms, addresses, citizenship, birth date, specialization, career information and a bibliography.Pioneer Dance Educator and Choreographic Mentor Cynthia Nazzaro Noble ...
The Borzoi Book of Modern Dance . ... Choreography . Champaign : Human
Kinetics , 1986 . Nagrin , Daniel . Choreography and the Specific Image :
Nineteen ...
Author: Cynthia Nazzaro Noble
Publisher:
ISBN: UOM:39015062839686
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Page: 175
View: 947
Bessie Schonberg was one of the foremost dance educators of the 20th century and was highly influential in contemporary dance. Schonberg taught at Sarah Lawrence College from 1936 to 1975, where she created and directed one of the first autonomous dance departments in American higher education. Founded on the philosophy of progressive arts education, the Sarah Lawrence program served as an important example for other emerging dance programs in the decades between the 1940s and 1970s, a time of significant growth in college dance programs in the United States. Some of her former students became well-known professional choreographers and dance educators, including Carolyn Adams, Elizabeth Keen, Meredith Monk, Lucinda Childs and Victoria Marks, and several contributed information to this study. important figures in American modern dance, including Martha Graham and Martha Hill; with historically significant events such as the emergence of the Bennington Summer School of Dance; and with premiere dance institutions such as Dance Theater Workshop, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, The Julliard School and Dance Theatre of Harlem. The book examines her early life in Germany and family background, her years of professional preparation in America as a dancer and educator, and her educational experiences at Bennington College Summer School of the Dance. It also describes curricular innovations that chairperson Schonberg instituted at Sarah Lawrence, and her original methodology for teaching choreography, as observed at Jacob's Pillow and Dance Theater Workshop. This book is [a] thorough and exhaustively researched volume to help tell the story of a unique twentieth-century American art form and how it came to be.