| Description |
1 online resource (x, 192 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; The Origins of Group Motion; Group Motion in Practice; Dance Is My Life: Brigitta's Story; Running into Dance: Manfred's Story; Group Motion Performance Stories; Part I. Group Motion Game Structures; Solo/Duet; Active-Passive; Activation; Mirror; Closing Your Eyes; Self Portrait Dance; Solo Dance/Writing; Dialogue; Connected to Strings; Self-Activation; Breathing Movement; Final Reflections on Solo/Duet Forms; Circle; Impulse; Name Game; Adding; Final Reflections on Circle Forms; Space; Areas; Crystallization; The Grid |
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Shadow DanceExchange Game; Moving or Being Still; Triangle/Diamond Dance; Group Dialogue/Trialogue Dance; Final Reflections on Space Forms; Sound; Time Dance; Message Dance; Receiving Sound Energy; Conducting Sound Energy; Sound Activation/Soundscapes; Words into Sounds; Final Reflections on Sound Forms; Word; Traveling Landscapes; Say What You Do; Word/Movement Mirror; Chat Room; Writing Process and Activation; Textography; Storytelling Dance; Alter Ego Monologue; Alter Ego Dialogue; Final Reflections on Word Forms; Ritual; House or Village Square Dance; Object Dance; Group Activations |
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Tableaux StillsGroup Tableaux Travel; Evolution Cycle; Past Lives Circle; Doing Nothing: The Dance of Stillness; Game Sequences; Introduction to the Friday Night Workshop; Model of Group Motion on a Friday Night; The Significance of Ritual Dances; Part II. Group Motion Practices; Eight Therapeutic Principles of Group Motion; The Partnership of Dance and Music; A Process of Collective Creation; Community Performance Project; Monday Night Improv Lab; Moving Beyond the Games; Reflection on the Practice of Free Improvisation; Practice of Interaction with Technology |
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Part III. Closing Conversations and MeditationsCooperation: The Universal Creative Principle; Dance as a Vehicle for Understanding Human Nature; The Awakening of the Body in the Technological Age; The Art of Dance and Transformation; The Art of Free Improvisation; From Then to Now and There to Here; Dance as an Art Form; Dance Is a Way of Life; Appendix I: Dance Chronology: Brigitta Herrmann; Appendix II: Theater and Dance Chronology: Manfred Fischbeck; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
"Part memoir, part guidebook, part philosophy of art treatise, this book provides step-by-step guidance to dozens of improvisational structures or games for dance professionals, theater artists, musicians and other performers who use movement for creative expression"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page 189) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Modern dance.
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Improvisation in dance.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General.
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Improvisation in dance
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Modern dance
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781476632094 |
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147663209X |
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