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.

Reviews

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"""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
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