Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery

Franklin, Eric

ISBN 10: 0873224752 / ISBN 13: 9780873224758

Verlag: Human Kinetics, 1996

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 0873224752-4-37353893

Inhaltsangabe:

Shows how to use imaging techniques to improve posture and alignment and release tension, offering exercises illustrated with b&w drawings and photos. Discusses the origins and uses of imagery, explains the biomechanical and anatomical principles behind complex imagery, and presents anatomical imagery exercises for specific regions of the body, for breathing, and for sculpting and improving alignment in various positions. For dancers, teachers, performance artists, and movement specialists. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Eric Franklin has more than 20 years' experience as a dancer and choreographer. In addition to earning a BFA from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and a BS from the University of Zurich, he has studied and trained with some of the top movement imagery specialists around the world and used this training as a professional dancer in New York. Franklin has shared imaging techniques in his teaching since 1986. He is founder and director of the Institute for Movement Imagery Education in Lucerne, Switzerland, and professor of postgraduate studies at the Institute for Psychomotor Therapy in Zurich, Switzerland. He is a guest professor at the University of Vienna (Musikhochschule) and has been on the faculty of the American Dance Festival since 1991. Franklin teaches at universities, dance centers, and dance festivals in the United States and througout Europe. Franklin is coauthor of the bestselling book Breakdance, which received a New York City Public Library Prize in 1984, and author of 100 Ideen fur Beweglichkeit and Dance Imagery for Technique and Performance (both books about imagery in dance and movement). He is a member of the International Association of Dance Medicine and Science.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery
Verlag: Human Kinetics
Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
Einband: paperback
Zustand: Fair