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
View: 915
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: 347
'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: 465
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: 301
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.
Dance and the Specific Image : Improvisation DANIEL NAGRIN After an
extraordinary dance career —as performer , choreographer , and teacher —
Daniel Nagrin has written an extraordinary book . He explores his aesthetic ,
influenced by ...
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 ...
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 .
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: 404
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.
If we were walking forward , he might have us look down at our feet and then , at
a certain point , look up . ... When the choreography was meant to portray a specific image ( a doll , for example ) , the forward run could be done in parallel
with ...
... 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: 992
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.
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: 428
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.
Taylor said this to a small group , including the writer , at the American Dance
Festival , 1992 . 11 . Cooper ... Daniel Nagrin , Choreography and the Specific Image : Improvisation ( Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press ) , 1997 . 23 .
Author: Stuart Hodes
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: UOM:39015046316454
Category: Music
Page: 293
View: 424
This all-inclusive guide to the art of creating dance moves and routines, written by the advisor and former dancer of the Martha Graham School and company, contains 247 projects that guide the user through a myriad of topics. Concepts and techniques such as form, sequencing, variation, surrealism, abstract movement, improvisation, ritual and ceremony, space, and floor patterns are examined and explained, encouraging the student to experiment and create with movement.
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THERAPY . DANCE - PHILOSOPHY . Nagrin , Daniel . Choreography and the specific image . Pittsburgh , Pa . : University of Pittsburgh Press , c2001 . TC
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Author: GK Hall
Publisher: G. K. Hall
ISBN: 0783805012
Category: Education
Page: 512
View: 435
The "Bibliographic Guide to Education" lists recent publications cataloged during the past year by Teachers College, Columbia University, supplemented by publications in the field of education cataloged by The Research Libraries of The New York Public Library, selected on the basis of subject headings. Non-book materials, including theses, are included in this "Guide," with the exception of serials. All aspects and levels of education are represented in this "Guide," including such areas as: American elementary and secondary education, higher and adult education, early childhood education, history and philosophy of education, applied pedagogy, international and comparative education, educational administration, education of the culturally disadvantaged and physically handicapped, nursing education and education of minorities and women. Also well covered are the administrative reports of departments of education for various countries and for U.S. states and large cities. The Teachers College collection covers over 200 distinct educational systems. Works in all languages are included. The" Bibliographic Guide to Education" serves in part as an annual supplement to the "Dictionary Catalog of the Teachers College Library, Columbia University" (G.K. Hall & Co., 1970) and Supplements ("First Supplement," 1971; "Second Supplement," 1973; "Third Supplement," 1977).
Students may not be able to concentrate on an image when they don't have a
clear grasp of a complex movement . ... about dance movement imagery into
readily applicable principles for constructing specific images to enhance specific
...
CONCLUSION Of utmost importance to me as a choreographer and director is
the individual experience and how that can be clearly manifest within the larger ... Choreography and the specific image : Nineteen essays and a workbook .
Author: Walter S. Gershon
Publisher: Brill / Sense
ISBN: PSU:000064215211
Category: Authorship
Page: 241
View: 894
"... Explores issues, strategies and challenges associated with researching practice. .. This book provides critical and creative input to the discourse on qualitative research methodologies." -- Back cover.
... 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: 173
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.