UID:
almafu_9961047211602883
Umfang:
1 online resource (203 pages)
ISBN:
1-4766-3209-X
Inhalt:
"Part memoir, part guidebook, part philosophy of art treatise, this book provides step-by-step guidance to dozens of improvisational structures or games for dance professionals, theater artists, musicians and other performers who use movement for creative expression"--
Anmerkung:
Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- The Origins of Group Motion -- Group Motion in Practice -- Dance Is My Life: Brigitta's Story -- Running into Dance: Manfred's Story -- Group Motion Performance Stories -- Part I. Group Motion Game Structures -- Solo/Duet -- Active-Passive -- Activation -- Mirror -- Closing Your Eyes -- Self Portrait Dance -- Solo Dance/Writing -- Dialogue -- Connected to Strings -- Self-Activation -- Breathing Movement -- Final Reflections on Solo/Duet Forms -- Circle -- Impulse -- Name Game -- Adding -- Final Reflections on Circle Forms -- Space -- Areas -- Crystallization -- The Grid -- Shadow Dance -- Exchange Game -- Moving or Being Still -- Triangle/Diamond Dance -- Group Dialogue/Trialogue Dance -- Final Reflections on Space Forms -- Sound -- Time Dance -- Message Dance -- Receiving Sound Energy -- Conducting Sound Energy -- Sound Activation/Soundscapes -- Words into Sounds -- Final Reflections on Sound Forms -- Word -- Traveling Landscapes -- Say What You Do -- Word/Movement Mirror -- Chat Room -- Writing Process and Activation -- Textography -- Storytelling Dance -- Alter Ego Monologue -- Alter Ego Dialogue -- Final Reflections on Word Forms -- Ritual -- House or Village Square Dance -- Object Dance -- Group Activations -- Tableaux Stills -- Group Tableaux Travel -- Evolution Cycle -- Past Lives Circle -- Doing Nothing: The Dance of Stillness -- Game Sequences -- Introduction to the Friday Night Workshop -- Model of Group Motion on a Friday Night -- The Significance of Ritual Dances -- Part II. Group Motion Practices -- Eight Therapeutic Principles of Group Motion -- The Partnership of Dance and Music -- A Process of Collective Creation -- Community Performance Project -- Monday Night Improv Lab -- Moving Beyond the Games -- Reflection on the Practice of Free Improvisation.
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Practice of Interaction with Technology -- Part III. Closing Conversations and Meditations -- Cooperation: The Universal Creative Principle -- Dance as a Vehicle for Understanding Human Nature -- The Awakening of the Body in the Technological Age -- The Art of Dance and Transformation -- The Art of Free Improvisation -- From Then to Now and There to Here -- Dance as an Art Form -- Dance Is a Way of Life -- Appendix I: Dance Chronology: Brigitta Herrmann -- Appendix II: Theater and Dance Chronology: Manfred Fischbeck -- Bibliography -- Index.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1-4766-7278-4
Sprache:
Englisch
