The Nikolais/Louis Dance Technique

The Nikolais/Louis Dance Technique

Author: Murray Louis

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-22

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 1134955804

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This is the definitive resource for understanding and practicing the influential dance technique developed by two pioneers of modern dance, Alwin Nikolais and Murray Louis. The Nikolais/Louis Dance Technique is presented in a week-to-week classroom manual, providing an indispensable tool for teachers and students of this widely studied movement practice. Theoretical background for further reading is set off from the manual for those interested in deeper study. Their philosophy and methodology span a broad readership and offer an important addition to dance literature and American cultural history.


The Returns of Alwin Nikolais

The Returns of Alwin Nikolais

Author: Claudia Gitelman

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press

Published: 2007-06-04

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780819565761

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Long overdue reflections on a visionary choreographer


Introduction to Modern Dance Techniques

Introduction to Modern Dance Techniques

Author: Joshua Legg

Publisher: Dance Horizons

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780871273253

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Each unit contains core ideas, a series of journaling and discussion topics, improvisation experiments, biographical sketches of the choreographers, and a presentation of-class material. At the end of each chapter, questions and experiments offer basic ideas that you can use to further your understanding of the choreography presented. --


The Illustrated Dance Technique of José Limón

The Illustrated Dance Technique of José Limón

Author: Daniel Lewis

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13:

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Providing the principles of dance developed by Limon, this book gives the historical and physical aspects of his style and approach to dance that will be of interest to students of dance at every level. It includes exercises that teach the fundamentals of dance, and includes a complete class beginning with floor work and progressing to center exercises and across-the-floor combinations. This replaces 0-06-015185-4.


Harnessing the Wind

Harnessing the Wind

Author: Jan Erkert

Publisher: Human Kinetics

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9780736044875

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Illustrated with abstract and imaginative photographs, this is a philosophical guide for the dance field about the art of teaching modern dance. Integrating somatic theories, scientific research and contemporary aesthetic practices, it asks the reader to reconsider how and why they teach.


The Dance Technique of Lester Horton

The Dance Technique of Lester Horton

Author: Marjorie B. Perces

Publisher: Dance Horizons

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13:

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A guide to the principles of dance and training developed by Lester Horton. It includes a foreword by Alvin Ailey, reminiscences of early Lester Horton technique by Bella Lewitzky, and a three-dimensional portrait of the life and work of Lester Horton by Jana Frances-Fischer.


Basic Concepts in Modern Dance

Basic Concepts in Modern Dance

Author: Gay Cheney

Publisher: Dance Horizons Book

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13:

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Presents an overview of the history of modern dance; discusses basic body movement, improvisation, and choreography; and includes illustrated exercises designed to help the dancer learn to use his or her body more effectively.


Time and the Dancing Image

Time and the Dancing Image

Author: Deborah Jowitt

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1989-01-01

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 9780520066274

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"If dance itself is a way of making ideas both visual and visceral, Deborah Jowitt has discovered a literary voice in Time and the Dancing Image in which nineteenth- and twentieth-century thought, in its relation to theatrical dancing, becomes sensuous."--Sally Banes, Cornell University "The most vivid and immediately accessible serious dance book ever written. Anyone from a neophyte to an aficionado will be challenged, enlightened and delighted by Jowitt's clever juxtapositions."--Allen Robertson, Dance Editor, Time Out, London "In this brilliant book Deborah Jowitt has given us a fresh approach to dance history and criticism. Instead of seeing dance in the usual way--isolated in a windowless room, with mirrored walls--she looks to the society in which dance evolved. Using the ideas of contemporary artists and thinkers, she illuminates changing tastes--from the elegant, ethereal sylphs of the 1830s to the agonized characters in the dances today. For her reader, Ms. Jowitt opens both the eyes and the mind to the wonders of a many-faceted art."--Selma Jeanne Cohen, Editor, International Encyclopedia of Dance


Dancing in the Blood

Dancing in the Blood

Author: Edward Ross Dickinson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-07-27

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 1107196221

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The book explores the revolutionary impact of modern dance on European culture in the early twentieth century. Edward Ross Dickinson uncovers modern dance's place in the emerging 'mass' culture of the modern metropolis and reveals the connections between dance, politics, culture, religion, the arts, psychology, entertainment, and selfhood.