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Choreography and the specific image : nineteen essays and a workbook / Daniel Nagrin.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2001]Copyright date: ©2001Description: xi, 274 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0822941473
  • 9780822941477
  • 0822957507
  • 9780822957508
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 792.82 21
LOC classification:
  • GV1588.3 .N34 2001
Contents:
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Essays -- 1.. Helen Tamiris and Her Teaching of Choreography -- 2.. A Method of Teaching Choreography -- 3.. Choreography and the Specific Image -- 4.. Improvisation as a Tool for Choreography -- 5.. "Rules" for Choreography in No Particular Order -- 6.. The Play of Metaphor -- 7.. Modern Dance Choreography--Ballet Choreography -- 8.. Choreography for the Solo Dancer, Choreography for a Group: The Problems and Differences -- 9.. Abstract Dance versus What? -- 10.. Music -- 11.. Words and Song Lyrics -- 12.. Virtuosity -- 13.. Direction -- 14.. The Stage: The Costumes, The Lights, The Sets, The Sound -- 15.. Choreography for the Theatre, Musical Comedy and Opera -- 16.. Mindsets -- 17.. The Criticism of Choreography -- 18.. Anecdotal Material -- 19.. The Ethics of Aesthetics -- The Workbook -- Workbook Introduction and Outline -- 1.. Warming Up -- Gifts -- Medicine Ball -- Outrageous Travel -- Goldfish Bowl -- Blind Journey -- 2.. The Rhythm Series -- Breath Rhythm -- Pulse Rhythm -- Inner Rhythm -- Dedicate Your Motion -- Go Visiting -- True Repetition -- Evolving Repetition -- Spinning -- 3.. Uncovering Sources of Movement: The First Steps -- Circles -- Each Alone -- Backdoor -- Hub Meditation -- Visualization -- Gesture Permutations -- Gesture Rondo -- 4.. Metaphor -- 5.. Sense Memory Sources -- Faces -- The Obstacle -- Passing through a Physical Object -- Slalom -- 6.. Sources of Movement Material -- The Mind-Wash -- Not Naming -- The Other -- A Duet -- The Duet as a Structure -- 7.. Finding Gold in "Bad" Habits -- Cliche Rondo -- Your Familiar -- Possessed by a Mannerism -- 8.. 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 -- 9.. Words and Movement -- Words -- Creating Words -- Being Created by Words -- Becoming Words -- Prison -- Poems -- 10.. More -- Why Do You Dance? -- Props Fantasy -- Inside the Outside -- Body Contact -- Seeing through the Eyes of Another -- I Dare You -- Notes -- Index.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-270) and index.

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Essays -- 1.. Helen Tamiris and Her Teaching of Choreography -- 2.. A Method of Teaching Choreography -- 3.. Choreography and the Specific Image -- 4.. Improvisation as a Tool for Choreography -- 5.. "Rules" for Choreography in No Particular Order -- 6.. The Play of Metaphor -- 7.. Modern Dance Choreography--Ballet Choreography -- 8.. Choreography for the Solo Dancer, Choreography for a Group: The Problems and Differences -- 9.. Abstract Dance versus What? -- 10.. Music -- 11.. Words and Song Lyrics -- 12.. Virtuosity -- 13.. Direction -- 14.. The Stage: The Costumes, The Lights, The Sets, The Sound -- 15.. Choreography for the Theatre, Musical Comedy and Opera -- 16.. Mindsets -- 17.. The Criticism of Choreography -- 18.. Anecdotal Material -- 19.. The Ethics of Aesthetics -- The Workbook -- Workbook Introduction and Outline -- 1.. Warming Up -- Gifts -- Medicine Ball -- Outrageous Travel -- Goldfish Bowl -- Blind Journey -- 2.. The Rhythm Series -- Breath Rhythm -- Pulse Rhythm -- Inner Rhythm -- Dedicate Your Motion -- Go Visiting -- True Repetition -- Evolving Repetition -- Spinning -- 3.. Uncovering Sources of Movement: The First Steps -- Circles -- Each Alone -- Backdoor -- Hub Meditation -- Visualization -- Gesture Permutations -- Gesture Rondo -- 4.. Metaphor -- 5.. Sense Memory Sources -- Faces -- The Obstacle -- Passing through a Physical Object -- Slalom -- 6.. Sources of Movement Material -- The Mind-Wash -- Not Naming -- The Other -- A Duet -- The Duet as a Structure -- 7.. Finding Gold in "Bad" Habits -- Cliche Rondo -- Your Familiar -- Possessed by a Mannerism -- 8.. 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 -- 9.. Words and Movement -- Words -- Creating Words -- Being Created by Words -- Becoming Words -- Prison -- Poems -- 10.. More -- Why Do You Dance? -- Props Fantasy -- Inside the Outside -- Body Contact -- Seeing through the Eyes of Another -- I Dare You -- Notes -- Index.

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