The Erick Hawkins modern dance technique / by Renata Celichowska ; illustrations by Leon Belokon ; labanotation by Ilene Fox.

Includes bibliographical references (page 166) and index.

Tribute / Lucia Dlugoszewski -- Historical Background -- Technique: Toward the "Normative" -- The Normative Ideal -- What Is Technique, What Is Style? -- About Ideokinesis and Movement Imagery -- Think/Feel -- Who Is the Teacher? -- Principles -- The Body's Center of Gravity: the Pelvis -- "Teeterbabe," -- The "Thigh" Sockets -- Shifting Weight -- "Undercurves" and "Overcurves," -- Gravity, Weight, Balance and Alignment -- The Spine and Spinal Alignment -- Leg Alignment -- "Hierarchy" of the Legs -- Contraction and "Decontraction" -- "Tassels," -- Arcs, Curves and Momentum -- Loops and the "Figure 8," -- "Boomerangs," -- Spirals -- Flow and Transitions -- Flow -- Form -- The "Chalkline," -- "Cobra" Hand -- Normative Form and Aesthetics -- What Is Rhythm? Is Music Sound? -- Dynamics -- In the Classroom -- Floor Warm Up -- Seated Movement Sequences -- Bounces -- Side-lifts -- Contraction-Swings -- Overcurves -- Contractions -- Leg Flexions -- Fourth Position -- Quarter Turns -- Back Leg Extensions -- Three 3s -- Swing on 5 -- Movement Sequences on the Back -- Thigh Socket Flexions -- Rolling on 4 -- Boomerangs -- Contractions -- Figure 8s -- Arching -- Preparing to Rise from the Floor -- Leg Lifts -- Rising to Standing -- Center Floor -- Plies -- Sensuous Feet Against the Floor -- Using the Thigh Socket Crease and the Boomerang Leg -- Moving the Pelvis and Upper Body Together Through Space -- Turns and the Spiral Staircase -- Letting the Movement Happen: Staying in Coenesthetic Experience -- Traveling --

List of Illustrations -- List of Photographs -- List of Labanotation -- Acknowledgments -- Tribute -- I. Historical Background -- II. Technique: Toward the "Normative" -- The Normative Ideal -- What Is Technique, What Is Style? -- About Ideokinesis and Movement Imagery -- Think/Feel -- Who Is the Teacher? -- III. Principles -- The Body's Center of Gravity: the Pelvis -- "Teeterbabe," -- The "Thigh" Sockets -- Shifting Weight -- "Undercurves" and "Overcurves," -- Gravity, Weight, Balance and Alignment -- The Spine and Spinal Alignment -- Leg Alignment -- "Hierarchy" of the Legs -- Contraction and "Decontraction" -- "Tassels," -- Arcs, Curves and Momentum -- Loops and the "Figure 8," -- "Boomerangs," -- Spirals -- Flow and Transitions -- Flow -- Form -- The "Chalkline," -- "Cobra" Hand -- Normative Form and Aesthetics -- What Is Rhythm? Is Music Sound? -- Dynamics -- IV. In the Classroom -- Floor Warm Up -- Seated Movement Sequences -- Bounces -- Side-lifts -- Contraction-Swings -- Overcurves -- Contractions -- Leg Flexions -- Fourth Position -- Quarter Turns -- Back Leg Extensions -- Three 3s -- Swing on 5 -- Movement Sequences on the Back -- Thigh Socket Flexions -- Rolling on 4 -- Boomerangs -- Contractions -- Figure 8s -- Arching -- Preparing to Rise from the Floor -- Leg Lifts -- Rising to Standing -- Center Floor -- Plies -- Sensuous Feet Against the Floor -- Principles Expanded -- Using the Thigh Socket Crease and the Boomerang Leg -- Moving the Pelvis and Upper Body Together Through Space -- Turns and the Spiral Staircase -- Letting the Movement Happen: Staying in Coenesthetic Experience -- Traveling -- Use of the Dance Space -- Vertical Space, Jumps and Leaping "Over the Moon," -- Ending Class -- V. Beyond Technique: the Aesthetic Dimension -- F.S.C. Northrop and the 1st and 2nd Functions of Art -- The "Hawkins Aesthetic" -- Dance Education and the Role of the Dance Teacher -- VI. Hawkins Choreography -- Works Choreographed by Erick Hawkins -- Labanotation -- About the Notation Process -- Reading Labanotation -- Recommended Reading -- Bibliography -- Videography -- Index.

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