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 The Body Eclectic: Evolving Practices in Dance Training
Edited by Melanie Bales & Rebecca Nettl-Fiol
This rich collection of essays and interviews explores modern-dance technique training from the past fifty years. Focusing in the culture of dance, editors Bales and Nettl-Fiol examine choreographic process and style, dancer agency and participation in the creative process, and changes in the role and purpose of training. Softcover, 265 pp. $43.00.
 Holistic Bodywork for Performers: A practical guide
Janet Free & Nicky Ramsay
This book gives hands-on practical guidance for some of the most important bodywork practices being used in theatres and training centres, including yoga, tai chi, Alexander Technique, Feldenkrais and Contact Improvisation. Alternative therapies like shiatsu and reflexology, which provide pathways to understanding the body's natural balancing and energy systems, are also introduced with accessible guidelines for safe practical use. Softcover, 159 pp. $32.95.
 Fight Choreography: The Art of Non-Verbal Dialogue
John Kreng
This book is instructional, informative and entertaining, and focuses on every important element involved in fight choreography, from basic philosophies, initial concept and planning, to filming, editing, adding special effects, and sound mixing the final product. The book is not only an indispensable resource for filmmakers, but will also interest film buffs who want to learn how great fight sequences are made so they can better appreciate the action. Softcover, 508 pp. $46.95.
 Your Move
Second Edition
Tina Curran & Ann Hutchinson Guest
Your Move establishes a fresh and original framework for looking at movement. Examining the basic elements of dance, termed the Movement Alphabet, the authors use illustrations of basic movement possibilities and concepts combined with simple Motif symbols to provide a new way to see, to understand, to teach, and to choreograph dance. Each copy of Your Move comes with a CD of the music especially composed for the mmany Reading Studies. Softcover, 593 pp. $51.50.
 How You Stand, How You Move, How You Live:
Learning the Alexander Technique to Explore Your Mind-Body Connection and Achieve Self-Mastery
Missy Vineyard
The first authoritative, comprehensive and all-new guide to the Alexander Technique to be published in more than twenty years - for novices, teachers, and students of all levels. Missy Vineyard fully illuminates the benefits to be reaped by mastery of the Alexander Technique, which include: release from acute or chronic physical pain, enhanced mental attention and focus, reduced anxiety, improved balance and co-ordination, and increased ease and efficiency performing precise movement skills. Softcover, 322 pp. $23.50.
 Politics of Touch: Sense, Movement, Sovereignty
Erin Manning
Exploring concepts of violence, gender, sexuality, security, democracy, and identity, Erin Manning traces the ways in which touch informs and reforms the body. Specifically considering tango she foregrounds movement as the sensing body's intervention into the political. With a fresh vision and an original theoretical basis, Manning shows the ontogenetic potential of the body, and in doing so redefines our understanding of the sense of touch in philosophical and political terms. Softcover, 195 pp. $29.95.
 Acts of Light
John Deane & Nan Deane Cano
The breathtaking images in Acts of Light are the result
of John Deane's unprecedented access as a promotional photographer
for the Martha Graham Dance Company. Drawing on essays, poetry and
excerpts from Graham's own notebook, Acts of Light considers
the narrative, dramatic and philosophical base for each dance, and
offers reflections on its contemporary relevance for today's audience,
providing an insightful testimony to Graham's living influence on American
culture. Hardcover, 103 pp. $50.95.
 Wisdom
of the Body Moving
Linda Hartley
This comprehensive guide introduces Body-Mind Centering, the internationally
recognized field pioneered by dancer and occupational therapist Bonnie
Bainbridge Cohen. In this book, experienced BMC practitioner Linda
Hartley demonstrates the basic philosophy and key elements of Body-Mind
Centering.
Her explorations of the images, feelings, sensations, and intuitions
of the diverse organs and cells lead to exercises that gently guide
students in ways of discovering and integrating their bodies' multidimentional
aspects.
Softcover, 346 pp. $31.50.
 Beyond
Dance: Laban's Legacy of Movement Analysis
Eden Davies
This book offers students of dance and movement a brief introduction to
the life and work of Rudolf Laban, and how this work has been extended
into the fields of movement therapy, communications, early childhood
development, and other fields. Refreshingly free of jargon and easy to
understand, the
work offers dance students -- and others interested in human movement
-- a full picture of the many possibilities inherent in Laban's theories.
Softcover, 163 pp. $39.00.
 The
Nikolais/Louis Dance Technique
Alwin Nikolais & Murray Louis
Finally, the definitive resource for understanding the influencial dance technique
developed by two pioneers of modern dance, Alwin Nikolais and Murray Louis.
This book combines the practical with the philosophical in a lively guide that
captures the spirit and wisdom of these legendary professionals. The Nikolais/Louis
technique is presented in a week-to-week classroom manual, complete with class
premises, improvisation and composition suggestions. The book is supplemented
by a fascinating DVD. Softcover, 259 pp. $42.95.
 F.M.:
The Life of Frederick Matthias Alexander
Michael Bloch
From his humble beginnings as a modest actor to his international renown as founder
of the Alexander Technique, the entire life of F.M. Alexander is elegantly chronicled
in this meticulously researched biography. F.M. reveals the strengths
and weaknesses of a man who, though an enigma to his contemporaries, is now recognised
as one of the most remarkable innovators of his time. Softcover, 276 pp. $29.00.
 A
Sense of Dance
Exploring Your Movement Potential
Constance A. Schrader
This edition is written for true beginners -- students who are
exploring the art of dance for the first time. Inside you'll find a
comprehensive introduction to the history, theory, technique, and social
function of dance. Perfect for use in the classroom. Softcover, 205
pp. $33.95.
 Laban
for All
Jean Newlove & John Dalby
This book offers a simplified version of Rudolf Laban's system
which can be used by relative beginners upwards. Within these pages
the reader is introduced to a new vocabulary, with each term accompanied
by very specific exercises designed to strengthen and deepen one's
understanding of the subject. Laban for All is a thorough
grounding in the most significant movement system of modern times.
Softcover, 255
pp. $28.95.
 Laban
for Actors and Dancers
Jean Newlove
A Handbook for teachers and students wanting a simple, practical
introduction to the Laban system of movement. Softcover, $35.95.
 The Body Speaks:
Performance and Expression
Lorna Marshall
This ground-breaking book treats the body as a positive resource rather than
a problem to be managed. Lorna Marshall enables us to recognize and lose unwanted
physical habits and discover new possibilites for the body, enriching our experience
and letting us communicate more effectively. Softcover, 218 pp. $23.95.
 The
Actor and the Alexander Technique
Kelly McEvenue, foreword by Patsy Rodenburg
Alexander practitioner and teacher, Kelly McEvenue has made a significant
contribution to the material available on the subject of body training for
performers. It
is well designed and readable, easily useable without a coach. Performers
will benefit from using this book to discover the benefits from the Alexander
Technique.
$23.95.
Ear Training for the Body
Katherine Teck
Approaches music from the dancer's point-of-view. Explains variables that pertain
to dancers, such as rhythm, dynamics, pitch, harmony and how to crete music for
unique dance purposes. 320 pp. $34.95.
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