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More Dance Improvisations
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Author : Justine Reeve
language : en
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Release Date : 2023-07-05
More Dance Improvisations written by Justine Reeve and has been published by Human Kinetics this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-05 with Performing Arts categories.
More Dance Improvisations builds on the success of its predecessor, Dance Improvisations, and offers 78 brand-new activities that have been tested and refined by author Justine Reeve, a veteran dance instructor and choreographer. This text offers a wealth of creative ideas that instructors can use to help their dancers explore and experience movement. The 78 improvisation tasks and exercises support all portions of a dance class, from improvisation lessons, warm-ups, and games that stimulate creativity to choreographic tasks for creating movement material. These new activities will provide an invaluable source of creative ideas for all dancers, including those who are exploring their own professional practice. More Dance Improvisations offers expert instruction in planning, teaching, and assessing students’ improvisations; a choreographic toolkit and glossary of dance and choreographic terms; step-by-step instruction and teaching tips that will save instructors preparation time; and extensions of each improv to aid further exploration and development of the improvisation skills. Instructors can use the improvs for individual lessons or in developing an entire lesson plan. “The improvisation tasks and exercises will encourage dancers’ imaginative responses to a varied selection of stimuli, whether alone or in groups,” says author Justine Reeve. “These improvisations will give dancers the keys to unlock ideas that they will find useful on their choreographic journey.” After an introductory chapter that covers many important topics on conducting safe and effective practices and workshops and on how to use the book, the text moves into its first set of improvisations: warm-up games. These games develop quick thinking, group thinking, movement communication, and an awareness of the needs and movements of others. The next two chapters explore solo and duo improvisations as well as group creative tasks. Each improvisation task has a brief description, an image, numbered tasks for clarity, a teaching tip, and ideas to take the task further or develop the dance idea as appropriate. Chapter 5 explores how the physical and aural setting can lead to creating interesting and considered dance. Chapter 6 encourages dancers to use movements, phrases, and sequences created in previous tasks to develop and structure the movement material into something new. “These games, tasks, ideas, stimuli, and developments are here to give instructors and students a little push to find creative vision, explore movement, and discover how these ideas can be developed, adapted, and structured,” says Reeve. “Instructors will find new ways to help their dancers create original movements through both individual and group activities, and students will gain inspiration through using these improvisations.” More Dance Improvisations promotes creativity that leads to innovative breakthroughs for students from middle school through college. It is the perfect resource to help dancers enjoy their exploration of movement and dance as they gain greater awareness of the capabilities they possess.
Dance Improvisations
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Author : Justine Reeve
language : en
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Release Date : 2011-04-25
Dance Improvisations written by Justine Reeve and has been published by Human Kinetics this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-25 with Performing Arts categories.
Dance Improvisations: Warm-Ups, Games and Choreographic Tasks will provide assistance with any doubts that dancers and teachers might have with improvisation. This practical book promotes creativity that can lead to innovative breakthroughs among students from middle school age through college. With Dance Improvisations: Warm-Ups, Games and Choreographic Tasks, you receive • expert instruction in planning, teaching, and assessing students’ improvisations; • 73 activities in creating movement and material for choreographing dances; • a glossary of dance and choreographic terms; and • extensions of each improv to aid further exploration and development of the improvisation skills. The activities support all portions of your class—including improvisation lessons that you can use as warm-ups, games that stimulate creativity, and choreographic tasks for creating movement material. Each activity has been tested and refined by the author, a veteran dance instructor and choreographer. You can use the improvs individually in a lesson or use them in developing entire lesson plans. The step-by-step instruction and teaching tips that you receive save you valuable preparation time—and the instructions are clear enough that more experienced students can use the book to practice on their own. With Dance Improvisations: Warm-Ups, Games and Choreographic Tasks, you will find new ways to help your dancers create original movements through both individual and group activities. Your students will hone their creative responses, and the innovation and energy in your dance classes will fill your studio or classroom. Students will blossom and gain inspiration using these improvisations as they learn how to develop movement and choreograph studies.
Dance Improvisations
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Author : Joyce Morgenroth
language : en
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
Release Date : 1987-03-15
Dance Improvisations written by Joyce Morgenroth and has been published by University of Pittsburgh Pre this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987-03-15 with Performing Arts categories.
Dance Improvisations is a book for teachers of dance and acting, choreographers, directors, and dance therapists. Systematically offering a complete range of ways to explore dance, it can be used as a syllabus or as a reference for groups of all ages and all levels of experience.The first chapter in Dance Improvisations introduces ways for a group to practice working together and for the dancers to gain an effective awareness of each other. These preliminaries are followed by a body of improvisational problems, organized into three main areas: Space, Time, and Movement Invention. Each area is presented as a series of topics. Each topic progresses from individual exploration to more formally structured group improvisations, with emphasis on learning to work as a group toward common structural goals.This book is the first in its field to go beyond the pursuit of physical inventiveness to nurture the development of structural intuition. Joyce Morgenroth has succeeded in presenting improvisation in a way that is rational and methodical as well as inventive and personal - in the conviction that improvisation at its best is comprised of both form and fancy.
More Dance Improvisations
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Author : Justine Reeve
language : en
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Release Date : 2023-09-05
More Dance Improvisations written by Justine Reeve and has been published by Human Kinetics this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-05 with Improvisation in dance categories.
"A resource for dance educators, workshop leaders, students, dance artists, and anyone who leads dancers in creative movement responses and choreographic practice. Includes warm-up games and tasks; solo, duo, and group improvisations and creative tasks; using aural and physical settings in dance creation; and developing improvisations. Includes appendix with choreography and dance terms"--
The Moment Of Movement
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Author : Lynne Anne Blom
language : en
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
Release Date : 1988-12-15
The Moment Of Movement written by Lynne Anne Blom and has been published by University of Pittsburgh Pre this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-12-15 with Performing Arts categories.
Dance improvisation, the intriguing phenomenon of the creative process alive in the moving body, exists powerfully, sublimely - lending insight, solving problems, allowing moments of transcendence, diversion, and delight. Flourishing especially since the postmodern movement of the 1960s, it has come into its own in the performing arts. While there are many books containing ideas for developing improvisations, few have tackled the difficult questions: "What is dance improvisation?" "How does it work?" or "What is its body of knowledge?"The Moment of Movement goes beyond lists of improvisations and into the heart of improvising. As in their previous book, The Intimate Act of Choreography, the authors pursue both the philosophical and the practical. They begin by examining the creative process as it applies to movement and especially the kinesthetic way in which the body knows and uses movement. They answer the often unstated and pertinent questions of the novice; investigate the particular skills and traits needed by the leader; consider ways of working with specific populations; and provide challenging material for advanced movers. They discuss the use of music, and the specific situation of improvisation in performance. For leaders who want to design their own improvisations, they trace the evolution of an idea into an actual content and structure. They also address the controversial issue of the legitimacy of improvisation in an academic curriculum. A final chapter presents hundreds of improvs and improv ideas, grouped into units and cross-referenced.The Moment of Movement is not tied to any one point of view. The authors' presentation of a broad range of material is flexible enough for use by choreographers, directors, educators, and therapists. In its perceptive investigation of the experiential and conceptual aspects of dance improvisation, this book articulates the ephemeral.
Tap Into Improv
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Author : Barbara Duffy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-11
Tap Into Improv written by Barbara Duffy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11 with categories.
Tap into Improv is a guide for tap dancers, both students and professionals, which provides tools, ideas, and concepts to help any level of dancer become more expressive in their tap improvisation. The guide contains physical, mental, musical and emotional exercises to be practiced either alone or in a group setting. Barbara Duffy has compiled these ideas from her 27 years of teaching improvisation classes in New York City and in 20 countries. If you are a beginner or a professional tap dancer, this guide presents valuable ideas to expand your creativity and freedom.
Taken By Surprise
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Author : Ann Cooper Albright
language : en
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Release Date : 2003-10-24
Taken By Surprise written by Ann Cooper Albright and has been published by Wesleyan University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-10-24 with Performing Arts categories.
First comprehensive overview of improvisation in dance.
I Want To Be Ready
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Author : Danielle Goldman
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2010-05-04
I Want To Be Ready written by Danielle Goldman and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-04 with Performing Arts categories.
A conceptual framework for understanding the development of improvised dance in late 20th-century America
Dance And The Specific Image
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Author : Daniel Nagrin
language : en
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
Release Date : 2015-03-23
Dance And The Specific Image written by Daniel Nagrin and has been published by University of Pittsburgh Pre this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-23 with Performing Arts categories.
After an extraordinary career in dance - as a performer, choreographer, and teacher - Daniel Nagrin has now written an extraordinary book. In it he explores the roots of his aesthetic philosophy, influenced by Stanislavski, Helen Tamiris, Joseph Chaikin and the Open Theatre, and his work on and off Broadway as an actor and dancer.Dance and the Specific Image includes over one hundred improvisational structures that Nagrin created with his new company, the Workgroup, and has taught in dance classes and workshops all over the United States. Designed primarily for dancers, many can be adapted for actors and even musicians.In the 1960s, at a time when many modern dancers were working with movement as abstraction, Nagrin turned instead toward movement as metaphor. His passionate belief that dance must speak of people led him to found the Workgroup, a small company of dancers who, in the early 1970s, devoted themselves to the practice and performance of improvisation.Nagrin invites the reader into the mind of a dancer totally absorbed in his art, one who writes with wisdom and authority about what it means to be an artist.
Structure And Improvisation In Creative Teaching
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Author : R. Keith Sawyer
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2011-06-27
Structure And Improvisation In Creative Teaching written by R. Keith Sawyer and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-27 with Psychology categories.
With an increasing emphasis on creativity and innovation in the twenty-first century, teachers need to be creative professionals just as students must learn to be creative. And yet, schools are institutions with many important structures and guidelines that teachers must follow. Effective creative teaching strikes a delicate balance between structure and improvisation. The authors draw on studies of jazz, theater improvisation and dance improvisation to demonstrate that the most creative performers work within similar structures and guidelines. By looking to these creative genres, the book provides practical advice for teachers who wish to become more creative professionals.