Dance Anatomy 2nd Edition

The exercises are drawn in stunning detail, capturing the dancer in motion and highlighting the active muscles associated with each movement so you can develop and strengthen different areas of the body. You will learn exercises to target specific areas, pelvis, such as shoulders and arms, and lower legs to enhance flexibility and ensure safety.

You will clearly see how muscular development translates into greater poise and elegance on the stage. Featuring hundreds of full-color illustrations, and performance exercises, movement, Dance Anatomy presents more than 100 of the most effective dance, proper breathing, improved placement, each designed to promote correct alignment, and prevention of common injuries.

Experience the raw energy and aesthetic beauty of dance as you perfect your technique with Dance Anatomy. Regardless of your ability level or dance style, Dance Anatomy will help you master the impeccable balance, intense muscular control, and grace to prepare you for your next leading role! . Each chapter addresses a key principle of movement to help you improve performance, beginning with the center of the body, where dance begins.

You will also discover more efficient ways of improving your lines and technique by implementing a supplementary conditioning program that takes into account your changing cycles of classes, practices, and times of rest.

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Stretching Anatomy-2nd Edition

Stretching programs provide three levels of difficulty, including light stretching that can be used to aid in recovery from soreness and injury. Each exercise describes how to stretch, when to stretch, primary and secondary muscle emphasis, and which muscles are activated for support. A new chapter on dynamic stretches covers the most effective exercises for athletic warm-ups, while another chapter shows you how to customize a program based on your individual needs, including a program of passive static stretches proven to help lower blood glucose.

You’ll also gain a detailed understanding of how each stretch affects your body. A new stretch focus section details the procedure and benefits of every exercise as well as safety considerations and variations according to skill level. Whether you seek increased flexibility, better athletic performance, or reduced muscle soreness and tension, Stretching Anatomy is your visual guide to proper stretching technique.

. Used book in Good Condition. Expanded, enhance recovery, the best-selling Stretching Anatomy returns to show you how to increase range of motion, enhanced, supplement training, and updated, and maximize efficiency of movement. See inside every stretch as you increase flexibility and improve muscular strength.

Not only do you see full-color illustrations of the muscles in action, but you also see how a change in position can alter the muscle emphasis and difficulty and how variations can improve safety and effectiveness. Stretching anatomy, second Edition, is like having an X-ray of each stretch, only better.




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Conditioning for Dance

Used book in Good Condition. Author eric franklin is an internationally known dancer, teacher, choreographer, and writer. Even the best sense of rhythm, the most careful technical training, and the most astute dance intuition aren't enough to make a dancer truly excel; you also need focused strength, balance, and flexibility to execute the movements with power and grace.

The result is more lift without tension, deeper pliés, tighter turns, higher jumps with less effort, and improved extension and turnout. Conditioning for dance is the result of years of practical experience combined with scientific and anatomical analysis. You'll learn how to execute lifelong dance skills that give power without the risk of injuries.

By working the muscles through movements and ranges of motion that approximate the demands of your chosen dance form, you directly enrich your performance capabilities. The book culminates with a 20-minute, full-body workout routine designed to help dancers warm up, condition, and refine their dance technique.

Conditioning for dance improves your technique and performance in all dance forms by strengthening the body's core abdominal and back muscles while improving coordination, balance, and alignment and optimizing flexibility. Human Kinetics. His innovative, proven techniques will help you execute key dance skills better as you-strengthen the muscles you use in dance by performing exercises with elastic resistance bands;-start and move in proper alignment using imagery;-improve your balance and release tension through playful exercises with small balls; -develop leg and torso power that translates to higher jumps and tighter turns; and-optimize your flexibility through touch, movement awareness, and imagery.

The book features 102 imagery illustrations paired with dance-specific exercises to help you maximize body–mind conditioning and develop more fluid mobility, balance, and tension release.


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Technical Manual and Dictionary of Classical Ballet

From adagio to voyage, movements, poses, over 800 steps, and concepts are fully defined. Used book in Good Condition. Human Kinetics. A pronunciation guide and cross-references to alternate names for similar steps and positions that vary from the Russian to the French or Italian schools are also invaluable aids.

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Technical Manual and Dictionary of Classical Ballet Dover Books on Dance

Teacher's organizations would do well to consider the use of Miss Grant's Technical Manual as an official textbook. Dance magazineteacher recommended, Gail Grant's Technical Manual has long been one of the most popular and effective ballet reference guides. Keyed to the dictionary and vice-versa, these diagrams show clearly the exact foot, leg, arm, and body positions for the proper execution of many of the more common ballet steps and movements.

For each, and finally an explanation of how the step is performed, first a phonetic transcription is provided, or the movement executed, then a literal translation, of how the concept fits in with actual ballet dancing, the pose captured, or of the purpose or function of the idea. A pronunciation guide, cross-references to alternate names for similar steps and positions that vary from the Russian to the French or Italian schools, and a bibliography are all invaluable aids.

But the most important supplement is the 15-page pictorial section, drawn by the author, who is both a successful ballet teacher and dancer. Used book in Good Condition. Human Kinetics. This essential and easy reference is a must for every teacher, aspiring dancer, and ballet class. Miss grant has made more information available in one book than we have ever had before.

Extensive revision, expansion, and the inclusion of more than 300 new terms have added immeasurably to the value of this concise, definitive manual.


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Dance Anatomy and Kinesiology-2nd Edition With Web Resource

Technical manual and Dictionary of Classical Ballet. New ancillaries • an instructor guide featuring a sample syllabus and course outline, chapter outlines, outlines, lab assignments, answers to review questions, and sample tests • A presentation package providing slides with text and graphics that reinforce key points • A student web resource including assignments, study sheets, and 20 video clips that demonstrate technique and correction guidelines This new edition will give teachers a clearer picture of the anatomical and kinesiological factors that aid in generating technique cues and identifying technique problems.

Used book in Good Condition. This new edition builds on that success by retaining its scientific perspective while making the material more accessible to students and teachers. Quotes the first edition of dance anatomy and kinesiology was hailed by reviewers as “most likely to become the definitive text in dance anatomy, kinesiology, and conditioning classes” Journal of Dance Medicine and Science; “a must for any dance teacher who is serious about helping their students” Australia Dance Teacher Magazine; and “the most substantive dance science resource to date” Journal of Dance Education.

Human kinetics. It will provide dancers with a better understanding of overcoming technique challenges and preventing injuries. Accessible to a wider audience clippinger has made this second edition more engaging to a wider audience and narrowed the scope of the material so it can be more readily covered in a single undergraduate course.

Karen clippinger’s first edition of Dance Anatomy and Kinesiology was hailed as the definitive text on the topic. What’s new? • a suite of online instructor and student ancillaries to support the text • an improved organization that will help teachers better cover the content in their courses • A reduction of the scientific depth to produce a more reader-friendly book that focuses on the musculoskeletal anatomy and kinesiology that dancers need to know • Graphics, and anatomical illustrations that demonstrate muscle movements and technique considerations and set the book apart from others in its field Primary Focus While much is new in this second edition, photos, Clippinger retains her emphasis on presenting the anatomical and kinesiological material that is essential for dancers to understand.




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Dance Anatomy Sports Anatomy

Powerful, and compelling! Now you can see what it takes to be a stronger, expressive, more elegant dancer. You’ll learn how to modify exercises to target specific areas to enhance flexibility and reduce muscle tension. Technical manual and Dictionary of Classical Ballet. Dance anatomy features 82 of the most effective dance, and performance exercises, improved placement, movement, proper breathing, each designed to promote perfect alignment, and prevention of common injuries.

Human Kinetics. Human kinetics. You’ll also learn to put it all together to personalize a program based on your style of dance, level of expertise, and individual needs and goals. In stunning detail, the accompanying illustration captures the dancer in motion and highlights the active muscles associated with each movement.

Used book in Good Condition. Featuring over 200 full-color illustrations, Dance Anatomy visually depicts the unique relationship between muscle development and aesthetic movement as never before. Shk01409. Whether you seek to optimize performance, or minimize muscle fatigue, add a new movement to your repertoire, stress, and injury, Dance Anatomy is your perfect partner.

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100 Lessons in Classical Ballet: The Eight-Year Program of Leningrad's Vaganova Choreographic School

Human Kinetics. A volume which no teacher, scholar, or student of the dance can afford to miss. Human kinetics. Technical manual and Dictionary of Classical Ballet. Shk01409. The complete 8-year curriculum of leningrad's famed Vaganova Choreographic School, which trained Nureyev, Baryshnikov, and Makarova, including over 100 photographs.

Used book in Good Condition. Limelight. A serious, indeed indispensable, textbook. Clive barnes Used book in Good Condition.


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Classical Ballet Technique

Human Kinetics. Warren for her authoritative book on classical ballet. International Ballet Competition"Congratulations to Ms. Used book in Good Condition. It not only covers the broad spectrum of ballet vocabulary but also gives sound, practical advice to aspiring dancers. Her work has appeared in Time, the New York Times, Newsweek, and many dance books.

She was soloist with the pennsylvania Ballet for eleven years and ballet mistress of American Ballet Theatre II from 1978 to 1983. The clarity of the writing, in a field notorious for its opaqueness, is in itself a major achievement. Merrill ashley, principal dancer, New York City Ballet"An excellent, comprehensive guide to ballet pedagogy valuable to teachers and students alike.

Classical ballet Technique is an invaluable guide for students, teachers, and ballet lovers. I recommend it to every serious student and teacher. Thalia mara, ballet repertory company and National Academy of Ballet; Artistic Director, Founding Director, U. S. A. Shk01409. Obviously a labor of love, this book's attention to detail and the clarity of its text and photos make it a valuable contribution to the lexicon of ballet.




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Basic Principles of Classical Ballet

The development of this school was largely due to Mme. Shk01409. Chapters cover battements, rotary movements of the legs, point work, beats, the arms, jumps, connecting and auxiliary movements, poses of the classical dance, and turns as well as material for a sample lesson. Used book in Good Condition. Technical manual and Dictionary of Classical Ballet.

Human Kinetics. Vaganova's aim of creating a personal approach to the Russian dance was based on the critical assimilation of the experience of her contemporaries. She sought from her pupils emotional expressiveness, a resolute, energetic manner of performance, strictness of form, and the understanding of the underlying coordination of movements.

Her book discusses all basic principles of ballet, grouping movements by fundamental types. She firmly believed that the teaching process should be a planned exercise, ever changing with innovations in the dance. Vaganova 1879–1951, not only a great dancer but also the teacher of Galina Ulanova and many others and an unsurpassed theoretician.

The principles of Vaganova's system are presented in this well-known book. Although the stars of russian ballet anna Pavlova and Tamara Karsavina possessed a national manner of dancing, there was no truly Russian school of dancing until the 1930s. Used book in Good Condition. University Press of Florida.


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2nd Edition - Dance Imagery for Technique and Performance

Human Kinetics. Human kinetics. Four exercises taught by Franklin and available on HK’s website help dancers with essential rest and relaxation techniques. 133 illustrations facilitate the use of imagery to improve technique, artistic expression, and performance. Either way, readers will learn how to combine technical expertise with imagery skills to enrich their performance, and they will discover methods they can use to explore how imagery connects with dance improvisation and technique.

Human Kinetics. Used book in Good Condition. Franklin’s method of using imagery in dance is displayed throughout this lavishly illustrated book, and the research from scientific and dance literature that supports Franklin’s method is detailed. University Press of Florida. And he offers guidance in using imagery to convey information about a dancer’s steps and to clarify the intent and content of movement.

Dance imagery for technique and performance uses improvisation exercises to help readers investigate new inner landscapes to create and communicate various movement qualities, modern, provides guidelines for applying imagery in the dance class, and helps dancers expand their repertoire of expressiveness in technique and performance across ballet, and contemporary dance.

The text, exercises, and illustrations make this book a practical resource for dancers and dance educators alike. 294 exercises offer dancers and dance educators greater opportunities to experience how imagery can enhance technique and performance. Shk01409.


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