Choreography and the specific image : nineteen essays and a workbook /
Nagrin, Daniel,
Choreography and the specific image : nineteen essays and a workbook / Daniel Nagrin. - xi, 274 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-270) and index.
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Essays -- Helen Tamiris and Her Teaching of Choreography -- A Method of Teaching Choreography -- Choreography and the Specific Image -- Improvisation as a Tool for Choreography -- "Rules" for Choreography in No Particular Order -- The Play of Metaphor -- Modern Dance Choreography--Ballet Choreography -- Choreography for the Solo Dancer, Choreography for a Group: The Problems and Differences -- Abstract Dance versus What? -- Music -- Words and Song Lyrics -- Virtuosity -- Direction -- The Stage: The Costumes, The Lights, The Sets, The Sound -- Choreography for the Theatre, Musical Comedy and Opera -- Mindsets -- The Criticism of Choreography -- Anecdotal Material -- The Ethics of Aesthetics -- The Workbook -- Workbook Introduction and Outline -- Warming Up -- Gifts -- Medicine Ball -- Outrageous Travel -- Goldfish Bowl -- Blind Journey -- The Rhythm Series -- Breath Rhythm -- Pulse Rhythm -- Inner Rhythm -- Dedicate Your Motion -- Go Visiting -- True Repetition -- Evolving Repetition -- Spinning -- Uncovering Sources of Movement: The First Steps -- Circles -- Each Alone -- Backdoor -- Hub Meditation -- Visualization -- Gesture Permutations -- Gesture Rondo -- Metaphor -- Sense Memory Sources -- Faces -- The Obstacle -- Passing through a Physical Object -- Slalom -- Sources of Movement Material -- The Mind-Wash -- Not Naming -- The Other -- A Duet -- The Duet as a Structure -- Finding Gold in "Bad" Habits -- Cliche Rondo -- Your Familiar -- Possessed by a Mannerism -- Music Sources of Movement -- Ambient Sound -- Rhythm Circle -- Before, After and On -- Who or What Is Alive in the Music? -- Riff Cactus -- Using Music for Improvisation -- Words and Movement -- Words -- Creating Words -- Being Created by Words -- Becoming Words -- Prison -- Poems -- More -- Why Do You Dance? -- Props Fantasy -- Inside the Outside -- Body Contact -- Seeing through the Eyes of Another -- I Dare You -- Notes -- Index. 1.. 2.. 3.. 4.. 5.. 6.. 7.. 8.. 9.. 10.. 11.. 12.. 13.. 14.. 15.. 16.. 17.. 18.. 19.. 1.. 2.. 3.. 4.. 5.. 6.. 7.. 8.. 9.. 10..
0822941473 9780822941477 0822957507 9780822957508
2001002663
Dance--Philosophy
Choreography
GV1588.3 / .N34 2001
792.82
Choreography and the specific image : nineteen essays and a workbook / Daniel Nagrin. - xi, 274 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-270) and index.
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Essays -- Helen Tamiris and Her Teaching of Choreography -- A Method of Teaching Choreography -- Choreography and the Specific Image -- Improvisation as a Tool for Choreography -- "Rules" for Choreography in No Particular Order -- The Play of Metaphor -- Modern Dance Choreography--Ballet Choreography -- Choreography for the Solo Dancer, Choreography for a Group: The Problems and Differences -- Abstract Dance versus What? -- Music -- Words and Song Lyrics -- Virtuosity -- Direction -- The Stage: The Costumes, The Lights, The Sets, The Sound -- Choreography for the Theatre, Musical Comedy and Opera -- Mindsets -- The Criticism of Choreography -- Anecdotal Material -- The Ethics of Aesthetics -- The Workbook -- Workbook Introduction and Outline -- Warming Up -- Gifts -- Medicine Ball -- Outrageous Travel -- Goldfish Bowl -- Blind Journey -- The Rhythm Series -- Breath Rhythm -- Pulse Rhythm -- Inner Rhythm -- Dedicate Your Motion -- Go Visiting -- True Repetition -- Evolving Repetition -- Spinning -- Uncovering Sources of Movement: The First Steps -- Circles -- Each Alone -- Backdoor -- Hub Meditation -- Visualization -- Gesture Permutations -- Gesture Rondo -- Metaphor -- Sense Memory Sources -- Faces -- The Obstacle -- Passing through a Physical Object -- Slalom -- Sources of Movement Material -- The Mind-Wash -- Not Naming -- The Other -- A Duet -- The Duet as a Structure -- Finding Gold in "Bad" Habits -- Cliche Rondo -- Your Familiar -- Possessed by a Mannerism -- Music Sources of Movement -- Ambient Sound -- Rhythm Circle -- Before, After and On -- Who or What Is Alive in the Music? -- Riff Cactus -- Using Music for Improvisation -- Words and Movement -- Words -- Creating Words -- Being Created by Words -- Becoming Words -- Prison -- Poems -- More -- Why Do You Dance? -- Props Fantasy -- Inside the Outside -- Body Contact -- Seeing through the Eyes of Another -- I Dare You -- Notes -- Index. 1.. 2.. 3.. 4.. 5.. 6.. 7.. 8.. 9.. 10.. 11.. 12.. 13.. 14.. 15.. 16.. 17.. 18.. 19.. 1.. 2.. 3.. 4.. 5.. 6.. 7.. 8.. 9.. 10..
0822941473 9780822941477 0822957507 9780822957508
2001002663
Dance--Philosophy
Choreography
GV1588.3 / .N34 2001
792.82