Dance Imagery for Technique and Performance

This reference text provides 574 imagery exercises designed to improve dance technique, artistic expression, and performance. Part 1 explores imagery in the improvizational setting - 171 exercises are centered around the body's basic movement images. Part II seeks to demonstrate how to use the 280 imagery exercises in their dance technique classes. Part III focuses on imagery in choreography and performance, and Part IV presents 34 exercises to help restore and regenerate the body using guided imagery through massage, touch and stretching.

About the Author :
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 thoughout 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 für Beweglichkeit and Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery (both books about imagery in dance and movement). He is a member of the International Association of Dance Medicine and Science. Franklin lives near Zurich, Switzerland, with his wife, Gabriela, and their two children.

Review :
" """Using imagery brings a greater richness to a dancer's physical technique and expression, and Franklin's book furnishes the creative tools to accomplish this.""" Jeanette Stoner Dancer, choreographer, and teacher New York City """Every dancer goes through temporary slumps when it seems hard to find inspiration and when even maintenance is a struggle. Franklin's book combines information and creativity in a way that lends freshness to steps worked on for years. It provides a resource for renewal--a companion, master teacher at your fingertips.""" June Balish Dancer, New York City """In his exceedingly interesting and original Dance Imagery for Technique and Performance, Eric Franklin has resourcefully drawn from the inner world of imagined experience a rich variety of incentives for feeling movement from the depths of one's being. Images called into action, have the power to release a dancer's full potential.""" Ernestine Stodelle Adjunct Professor, New York University Author of The Dance Technique of Doris Humphrey and Its Creative Potential and Deep Song: The Dance Story of Martha Graham """Dance Imagery for Technique and Performance by Eric Franklin, an excellent text for students and teachers, introduces the science of kinetics to teaching and performance. Dancers, teachers, and choreographers will find themselves using this book over and over again.""" David Howard, Director David Howard School of Ballet, New York City "