This book offers insights and guidelines for teaching the best students. Staying true to the Russian Academy of Ballet (St. Petersburg) pedagogy that he has taught for forty years, ""Advanced Principles in Teaching Classical Ballet"" is a continuation of the work John White began in his first book. Designed for teachers, company directors, and advanced dancers, the book explores the importance of disciplined dancing, choreography, acting, conditioning, and performance. White's writing style is a...
How to Land: Finding Ground in an Unstable World presents a new look at embodiment that treats gravity as the organizing force for thinking and moving through our twenty-first century world. Author Ann Cooper Albright argues that a renewed attention to gravity as both a metaphoric sensibility and a physical experience can help transform moments of personal disorientation into an opportunity to reflect on the important relationship between individual resiliency and communal responsibility. Lo...
Siamese Fighting Fish (Journal / Notebook)
by Wild Pages Press Journals & Notebooks
From adagio to voyage, over 800 steps, movements, poses, and concepts are fully defined. A pronunciation guide to cross-references to alternate names for similar steps and positions that vary from the Russian to the French or Italian schools are also invaluable aids.
In the fall of 1927, newspaper dance writing in the United States evolved from a haphazard and largely throw-away subspecies of music criticism (covered by music and drama critics and sometimes sports and society columnists) into a specialized field of arts reporting and commentary. Lynne Conner investigates the watershed moment when New York City's three leading daily newspapers -- the New York World, the New York Herald Tribune, and the New York Times -- all hired full-time dance writers. Her...
Devised by choreographer Liz Lerman in 1990, Critical Response ProcessĀ® (CRP) is an internationally recognized method for giving and getting feedback on creative works in progress. In this first in-depth study of CRP, Lerman and her long-term collaborator John Borstel describe in detail the four-step process, its origins and principles. The book also includes essays on CRP from a wide range of contributors. With insight, ingenuity, and the occasional challenge, these practitioners shed light on...
Index to Dance Periodicals
Dance Composition (Performance Books) (Ballet, Dance, Opera and Music)
by Jacqueline M. Smith-Autard
In Dance Composition, renowned dance educator Jacqueline M. Smith-Autard provides an accessible and practical guide to creative success in dance making. Now in its fourth edition, this classic introduction to the art of choreography-with a valuable emphasis on form and movement-is useful for all those who are interested in dance composition.