Introduction to Modern Dance Techniques Legg JoshuaPaperback
Introduction to Modern Dance Techniques Legg JoshuaPaperback A lively portrait of modern dance training that gives today's dancers and students the tools to compare the great classical techniques in…
Specifikacia Introduction to Modern Dance Techniques Legg JoshuaPaperback
Introduction to Modern Dance Techniques Legg JoshuaPaperback
A lively portrait of modern dance training that gives today's dancers and students the tools to compare the great classical techniques in the studio. The author pairs Martha Graham with Doris Humphrey, Katherine Dunham with Lester Horton Jose Limon with Erick Hawkins, Alwin Nikolais/Murray Louis with Merce Cunningham. This comparative approach will enable the student to try each technique AZ with sample lessons AZ and to contrast the different philosophies.
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. Paul Taylor has his own chapter, leading to the book's conclusion on how modern dance training is currently approached. 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 techniques are placed within historical and cultural contexts, so that we see the interconnectedness of each choreography with history.