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The place of dance :

(Number (ISBN

0819574058 (pbk. : alk. paper)

(Number (ISBN

9780819574053 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Erroneous ISBN

9780819574060 (ebook)

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b416057

Title Proper

The place of dance :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

a somatic guide to dancing and dance making /

First Statement of Responsibility

Andrea Olsen, with Caryn McHose

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xxii, 266 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations ;

Dimensions

28 cm

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-254) and indexes

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pt. I. Moving -- Basic concepts : dance is both universal and highly personal -- Familiar-voice dancing -- Tonic system -- Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen -- Attitudes : people have complex views about the dancing body -- Calcaneus -- Opposite-voice dancing -- David Dorfman -- Flow : flow is our oceanic heritage -- Rolling and pouring -- Spherical awareness -- Plumb-line falls -- Kathleen Hermesdorf -- Fire : sometimes we need fire -- Bone marrow -- Vessel breath -- dancing through the body systems -- Caryn McHose -- Getting started : you can only dance where you are -- Three long walks -- Presentations -- Penny Campbell -- Training and technique : we train for the unknown -- What I look for in a performer / Tamar Rogoff -- Hip reflex -- Light-touch duets -- Jeanine Durning -- Embracing mystery : dancing involves surrender -- Breathing spot -- Three-part breath -- Suprapto Suryodarmo -- Being seen, being moved : authentic movement and performance -- Looking back, moving forward : dance history comes in several forms -- Releasing the jaw -- Dance one artist's dance -- Nancy Stark Smith -- Teena Marie Custer --

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pt. II. Making -- Improvising : improvising can be experienced on a continuum -- Freeing the girdles -- Dance your partner -- Lisa Gonzales, Pamela Vail, and Michael Chorney -- Composing : composition is arranging -- Four movement qualities -- Framing -- Composing with a group -- Dance-a-day notebook -- Jim Coleman -- Choreographing : choreography involves the why of a thing -- Contra-lateral yield and push -- Building trios -- Concept-driven dance -- David Dorfman -- John Elder -- Visceral movement : how do you know whether you're moving or still? -- Pelvic floor -- The antidote-to-the-antidote dance -- Bebe Miller -- Rehearsing : the most stunning dancing happens in rehearsals -- Ball of energy -- Body-parts duets -- Declarations -- Peter Schmitz -- Sound and music : ears are always open -- Resonance - Dancing twelve -- DJ time -- Michael Chorney -- Space and place : space shapes the body, and the body shapes space -- Endings : don't abandon your ending -- Practicing ending -- Calling end -- Robert Swinston, on Merce Cunningham --

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pt. III. Collaborating -- Words and feedback : language shapes a way of thinking -- WIGO -- Reinterpreting butterflies -- Watching and writing -- Watching a dance -- To dance : dance-back -- Talking about dancing -- Performance response -- Kate Trammell -- Deborah Jowitt -- Touch and partnering : touch and partnering involve a yield toward center -- Layers of touch -- Landscapes -- Terry Creach -- Vision : vision links past with future and communicates the present -- Expanding the skull -- Visual practices -- Flowing and forming -- Postcard dances -- Lisa Nelson -- Dance, place, and video / Otto Ramstad -- Breath and voice : breath affects the phrasing and timing of movement and vocalization -- Resonance -- Talking to the floor -- Dancing your story -- Alex Draper -- Textures, fabrics, and costumes : costumes are experienced as part of the body -- Costume day -- Opposite-voice costumes -- Heidi Henderson -- Dancing with light : light makes things happen -- Lighting board -- Four lighting possibilities -- Kathy Couch -- From studio to stage : performance week is a time to focus -- Saying your name -- Rehearsal coaching -- Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen -- Performing : performance invokes transformation -- Tuning stillness and moving warm-up -- Thresholds -- Susan Prins --

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pt. IV. Living -- Healthy dancing : the nervous system governs our actions and reactions -- Imagining the cortex -- Central nervous system -- Paul Matteson -- Healing dancing : dancing and dance making create agency -- Embodying the four layers of the nervous system -- Paul Matteson -- Teaching dancing : teaching is learning -- Heel foot and ankle foot -- Extending your range -- Teaching dancing -- Six composing basics -- Reviewing ten landmarks for efficient movement -- David Dorfman -- Dance and yoga : dance and yoga are longtime partners -- Articulating eight horizontal diaphragms -- Preparations for sun salutation -- Savasana -- Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen -- Nature and creativity : body is Earth -- Place map -- Be-ing score -- Andrea Olsen, art making and the environment -- Concerning the spiritual : dance is embodied spirit -- Three contemplative practices -- Sacred space -- Janet Adler -- Personal project : create your own chapter.

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Olsen, Andrea

Date of Transaction

20140521112414.0

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