The Nikolais/Louis dance technique : a philosophy and method of modern dance / / by Alwin Nikolais & Murray Louis

• Autore: Nikolais Alwin
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Routledge, 2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (393 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 792.801
• Soggetto topico: Modern dance; Modern dance - Philosophy
• Altri autori: LouisMurray
• Nota di contenuto: Biography of Alwin Nikolais -- Biography of Murray Louis -- Introduction -- SECTION I Definitions -- Basic Dance -- Vision of a New Technique -- Decentralization -- Grain -- Gravity and Verticality -- The Psyche -- Stasis -- Dynamics and Energies -- Sensory Perception -- Movement Range -- Three Conditions of Energy -- SECTION II Creating: Improvisation and Composition -- Defining Improvisation -- Gestalt -- Nature and Art -- The Language of Criticism -- Composition -- SECTION III The Class Manual -- Introduction to the Classes -- The Body as an Instrument -- The Dimensional Concept -- Alignment -- The Stretches -- Up and Down-Vertical-The Plié -- Across the Floor -- Week 1: Locomotion and Dimensions -- Week 2: Isolating Body Parts (Isolations) -- Week 3: Body Parts (Continued) -- Week 4: Levels -- Week 5: The Joints and Joint Action -- Week 6: Rotary Action -- Week 7: Grain and Density -- Week 8: Gravity and Upward Willpower -- Week 9: Swing, Centripetal, and Centrifugal Momentum -- Week 10: Undercurves -- Week 11: Overcurves and Mirror Action -- Major Principles of Dance (The Big Four) -- Week 12: Space: Volume and Peripheral -- Week 13: Time -- Week 14: Shape -- Motion -- Week 15: Motion -- Week 16: Abstraction -- Week 17: Review Technique -- Week 18: Realism to Abstraction -- Week 19: Diagonals -- Week 20: Circles -- Week 21: Falls -- Week 22: Suspension Points -- Week 23: Percussion and Prop Extension -- Week 24: Lyricism -- Adjuncts to Choreographic and Performing Skills -- Week 25: The Showing: Performance -- Consonance and Summation -- A Brief Review.
• Sommario/riassunto: Annotation
• Titolo autorizzato: The Nikolais
• ISBN: 1-315-53876-8; 1-134-95580-4; 1-134-95573-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910798203903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II