Your Move: A New Approach to the Study of Movement and Dance

<p>The author takes a new approach to teaching notation through movement exercises, thus enlarging the scope of the book to teachers of movement and choreography as well as the traditional dance notation students.</p><p>Updated and enlarged to reflect the most recent scholarship and through a series of exercises, this book guides students through:</p><p>movement, stillness, timing, shaping, accents </p><p>travelling </p><p>direction, flexion and extension </p><p>rotations, revolutions and turns </p><p>supporting </p><p>balance </p><p>relationships. </p><p>All of these movements are related to notation, so the student learns how to notate and describe the movements as they are performed.</p> General Notes; Part 1 Specific Notes for Each Chapter; Chapter 1 Chapter One —MOVEMENT; STILLNESS; TIMING; Chapter 2 Chapter Two —TRAVELLING; Chapter 3 CHAPTER THREE —VARIATIONS IN TRAVELLING; Chapter 4 CHAPTER FOUR —ABSENCE OF SUPPORT: JUMPING (ELEVATION); Chapter 5 CHAPTER FIVE —DIRECTION—DEFINITION OF SPACE; Chapter 6 CHAPTER SIX —FLEXION; EXTENSION; Chapter 7 CHAPTER SEVEN —ROTATIONS, REVOLUTIONS, TURNS; Chapter 8 CHAPTER EIGHT —SUPPORTING, CHANGE OF SUPPORT; Chapter 9 CHAPTER NINE —BALANCE, EQUILIBRIUM; Chapter 10 CHAPTER TEN —RELATIONSHIPS; Chapter 11 CHAPTER ELEVEN —PART LEADING, GUIDANCE; Chapter 12 CHAPTER TWELVE —ONE-SIDED GESTURES: SHAPES AND PATTERNS FOR GESTURES; Chapter 13 CHAPTER THIRTEEN —DIRECTION: THE DIAGONALS; Chapter 14 CHAPTER FOURTEEN —AERIAL STEPS: THE FIVE BASIC FORMS; Chapter 15 CHAPTER FIFTEEN —TURNING OF BODY PARTS: ROTATION, TWIST; Chapter 16 CHAPTER SIXTEEN —FLEXION AND EXTENSION: SPECIFIC FORMS; Chapter 17 CHAPTER SEVENTEEN —RELATIONSHIP: SITUATIONS IN MEETING; LOOKING; Chapter 18 CHAPTER EIGHTEEN —DESTINATION, MOTION; Chapter 19 CHAPTER NINETEEN —SPECIFIC DIRECTIONAL ACTIONS; Chapter 20 CHAPTER TWENTY —DIRECTION: SYSTEMS OF REFERENCE; Chapter 21 CHAPTER TWENTY ONE —DYNAMICS; The Exercise Sheets: Answers;