Dance Books
Short Books Ltd The Dance Cure: The surprising secret to being
Book Synopsis"Peter has brilliantly put into words what I have felt my whole dancing life: that the power of dance can liberate and change all our lives." Darcey BussellHumans are born to dance. And in today's sedentary world, we would all benefit from doing more of it. Science shows that just ten minutes of dancing provides a thorough work out for the body and brain, raising the heartbeat to cause a release of feel-good endorphins, connecting us to our emotions and reducing our stress levels. Dancing quite simply makes us feel more alive.Dr Peter Lovatt, a former professional dancer turned dance psychologist, has spent the past two decades studying why we dance and what it does for us, and is on a personal mission to make dancing as natural an activity in our daily lives as walking or drinking coffee.Filled with fascinating case studies from his research as well as great stories from dance history, The Dance Cure will inspire even those who think they "can't dance" to turn the music on, get up on the floor and dance themselves happy.
£11.69
Human Kinetics Publishers More Dance Improvisations
Book SynopsisMore 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.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction and How to Use This Book This chapter explores how to use this book, warming up and safe practice, effective planning, top tips for dance improvisation, planning your workshop, inclusive practice, and finding the right music, musicality, phrases and a table of improvisations.Chapter 2. Warm-Up Games and Tasks This chapter explores the concepts of play and spontaneous movement as stimuli for warming up the body and preparing the mind for new experiences. The games and improvisations within will prepare dancers for the creative tasks ahead, improve reaction times and explore key features of movement.Chapter 3. Solo and Duo Improvisations This chapter explores the movement responses dancers can generate on their own and with partners. Through these tasks, they’ll discover spontaneous movement answers that will develop, challenge and refine their creative responses, solo or in duos.Chapter 4. Group Creative Tasks This chapter explores the movement responses dancers can generate in groups. By working with others, they can explore and discover new movement ideas. The tasks within aim to develop, challenge and refine creative responses and the feeling of working as a team that comes with making group decisions in the moment.Chapter 5. Moving Beyond the Kinaesthetic: Using Physical and Aural Improvisation Tasks This chapter explores how starting with elements of physical and aural settings can lead students to create interesting dance. It acts as a taster for being inspired by external stimuli and will hopefully inspire an abundance of future ideas.Chapter 6. Developing Improvisations This chapter encourages dancers to use the movements, phrases and sequences created in previous tasks to play with development and structuring to manipulate the movement material. They can also develop ideas using existing material and repertoire. These are only a few suggestions to inspire additional ideas on how to develop movements into dance pieces or works.
£29.70
FABER MUSIC Theory Made Easy for Little Children Level 1
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£6.78
HarperCollins Publishers Billy
Book SynopsisThe inside story of the one of the most successful British stand-up comedians, as told by the person best qualified to reveal all about the man behind the comic, his wife of over 20 years Pamela Stephenson.Once in a lifetime, there strides upon the stage someone who can truly be called a legend. Such a person is the inimitable, timeless genius who is Billy Connolly. His effortlessly wicked whimsy has entranced, enthralled and split the sides of thousands upon thousands of adoring audiences.And when he isn''t doing thathe''s turning in award-winning performances on film and television.He''s the man who needs no introduction, and yet he is the ultimate enigma. From a troubled and desperately poor childhood in the docklands of Glasgow he is now the intimate of household names the world over.How did this happen, who is the real Billy Connolly? Only one person can answer that question: his wife, Pamela Stephenson. Pamela's writing combines the very personal with a frank objectivity that Trade Review‘Searingly honest, it’s an engrossing story told with all the winning warmth and insight we have come to expect from clinical psychologist and former comedian, Pamela.’ Woman’s Weekly
£10.44
The Crowood Press Ltd The Essential Guide to Tap Dance
Book SynopsisFrom the propulsive rhythm of the African dancer, to the swinging ragtime of the American jazz age, tap dancing has evolved into a unique blend of cultural expression, improvisation and creativity, open to all ages and abilities. With clear step-by-step instructions, The Essential Guide to Tap Dance covers basic steps such as the shuffle, pick up and paddle, before building these into traditional combinations such as the time step and shim sham. Additional material includes the history and development of tap dancing; rhythm and musicality; learning the language of tap dancing; the role of improvisation and choreography and finally, the basic steps to advanced techniques. This is the perfect companion to instruct the beginner tap dancer and expand the more experienced dancer's technique, offering full-colour pictures, helpful instruction and essential notes on this vibrant and accessible dance form.
£18.00
Taylor & Francis A Choreographers Handbook
Book SynopsisOn choreography: âChoreography is a negotiation with the patterns your body is thinking.âOn rules: âTry breaking the rules on a need to break the rules basis.âThe updated and revised edition of 'A Choreographerâs Handbook' invites the reader to investigate how and why to make a dance performance. In an inspiring and unusually empowering sequence of stories, questions, ideas and paradoxes, internationally renowned choreographer Jonathan Burrows explains how itâs possible to navigate a course through this complex process.It is a stunning reflection on a personal practice and professional journey, and draws upon many years of workshop discussions, led by Burrows.Burrowsâ open and honest prose gives the reader access to a range of principles, exercises, meditations and ideas on choreography that allow artists and dance-makers to find their own aesthetic process.It is a book for anyone interested in making performance, at whatever level and in whichever style.
£25.64
Jessica Kingsley Publishers The Tao of Movement
Book SynopsisFor those who move, be it dancers, yogis, athletes, physical actors, or aerial dancers, the demands on their health go far beyond the ordinary. This book, authored by a seasoned dance teacher and leading authority in Traditional Chinese Medicine, unlocks the keys to maintaining wellbeing through Chinese medicine for dance and movement professionals.At its core, lies the exploration of Qi energy, Yin and Yang, and the Five Elements, all demystified and applied in practical terms. This book also delves into the intricate world of meridians, offering unique ways to work with them through movement. The author draws inspiration from the rich philosophy of Tao, making this an excellent resource for dancers and other movement professionals.
£23.74
Headline Publishing Group Ruin
Book SynopsisAs seen on TikTok, from Samantha Towle, the New York Times bestselling author of Wardrobe Malfunction and Breaking Hollywood, comes the first dramatically powerful and passionate novel in the Gods series.Readers are raving about Ruin!''Samantha Towle at her best''''Wow! What a story, I can''t even begin to tell you just how much I loved . . . this mind blowing book''''I adored this story! . . . Samantha Towle really knows how to make her characters jump out of the page and into our hearts as their journey becomes our own''''I love a good second chance romance story and this one was A-M-A-Z-I-N-G''..............................................................................And the new heavyweight champion of the world is... Those are the words that Zeus Kincaid has been waiting to hear since
£10.44
Washington Square Press Inc.,N.Y. Julius Ceasers
Book SynopsisThe authoritative edition of Julius Caesar from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers.Shakespeare may have written Julius Caesar as the first of his plays to be performed at the Globe, in 1599. For it, he turned to a key event in Roman history: Caesar’s death at the hands of friends and fellow politicians. Renaissance writers disagreed over the assassination, seeing Brutus, a leading conspirator, as either hero or villain. Shakespeare’s play keeps this debate alive. This edition includes: -Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play -Newly revised explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play -Scene-by-scene plot summaries -A key to the play’s famous lines and phrases -An introduction to reading Shakespeare’s language -An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a m
£6.64
Human Kinetics Publishers Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery
Book SynopsisEric Franklin’s classic reference is back in a new full-color edition, complete with new material and exercises for instructors to use with their dancers, other performing artists, athletes, and classes.In Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery, Third Edition, Franklin—an internationally renowned teacher, dancer, and choreographer who has been sharing his imagery techniques for more than 35 years—teaches the use of imagery to increase self-awareness, improve body image, and apply anatomical and biomechanical principles for more efficient movement.This expanded new edition includes more than 600 anatomical imagery exercises to improve posture and body alignment, release excess tension, and prevent injuries; over 500 full-color illustrations to help readers visualize the exercises and use them in various contexts; four audio files containing guided imagery exercises led by Franklin and set to music; and updated chapters throughout the book, including new material and exercises to address fasciae and connective tissue. “The pictures and the words in your mind influence the feelings in your body, which in turn feed your thoughts and mental pictures,” Franklin says. “To create powerful and dynamic alignment, you need to fertilize your mind and body with constructive information and weed out destructive thoughts.”This book will help readers do just that as they discover their natural flexibility and increase their power to move. Franklin expertly guides readers through foundational concepts of posture, dynamic alignment, and imagery; explores different types of imagery and guidelines for using them; and delves into biomechanical and anatomical principles, including the body’s center and gravity, the laws of motion and force systems, and joint and muscle function. He then provides exercises for anatomical imagery, covering every area of the body from head to toe. The book closes with two critical chapters on defining dynamic alignment and on integrating dynamic alignment exercises into workouts and programs.Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery, Third Edition, will help readers experience the biomechanical and anatomical principles that are crucial to athletes, dancers, other performing artists, and yoga and Pilates practitioners. The techniques and exercises presented in the book will guide readers in improving their posture—and will positively affect their thoughts and attitudes about themselves and others and help them feel better, both mentally and physically.Earn continuing education credits/units! A continuing education exam that uses this book is also available. It may be purchased separately or as part of a package that includes both the book and exam.Trade Review“The Franklin Method training as outlined in this book is the most intelligent approach to learning about the workings of the body that I have ever attended. It is not just information but the experience of our design as we learn that is transforming.”—Tom McCook, Fitness Instructor, Founder and Director, Center of Balance"In Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery, Eric Franklin offers an easy-to-read, practical, and educational resource, which I wholly recommend."—Dr. Emma Redding, Head of Dance Science, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, President, International Association for Dance Medicine & Science"Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery is a must-have resource. Eric Franklin creates a truly powerful tool for improving movement and function."—Marie-Jose Blom, PMA Gold-Certified Master Pilates Teacher, Founder and Owner, Long Beach Dance Conditioning, Founder and Owner, Angel City Body Kinetics, Founder and Partner, SmartSpine Works“The Franklin Method has had a profound influence on my personal and professional life. Eric Franklin’s evolution of imagery and its application contain the knowledge and power to create a quantum leap in our understanding of human movement and our own potential.“—Jan Dunn, M.S., Past President, International Association for Dance Medicine & Science Table of ContentsIntroduction. How I Came to Use ImageryReinforcing What You WantPurpose and WillUsing Imagery for AlignmentUsing the Audio FilesPart I. Posture and Dynamic AlignmentChapter 1. Roots of Imagery for AlignmentA Brief Look at Imagery Throughout HistoryAlignment in History and ArtImagery and Ideas of Ideal PostureSomatic DisciplinesSummaryChapter 2. Postural Models and Dynamic AlignmentPostural HabitsDynamically AligningSummaryChapter 3. Foundations of Mental ImageryBrain, Consciousness, and ImageryNervous SystemThe World in the Brain: Neuroplasticity and ImageryDevelopmental PatternsDeveloping Mind: The Role of ImagerySummaryChapter 4. The Art of Change Through ImageryFour Steps in the Art of ChangeA Closer Look at the Four Steps for ChangeSummaryChapter 5. Imagery’s Five Ws: What, Who, When, Where, and WhyWhat?Who?When?Where?Why?SummaryChapter 6. General Guidelines for How to Use ImageryFactors That Influence Successful ImageryModulating and Adapting Images and MetaphorsSequencing the ImageryProblems and Opportunities When Cuing ImageryResting Positions for Imagery PracticeSummaryPart II. Biomechanical and Anatomical Principles and ExercisesChapter 7. Befriending Gravity and Finding Your CenterGravityForcesAnatomical Terminology for Location and DirectionSummaryChapter 8. Laws of Motion and Force SystemsNewton’s Laws of MotionForce SystemsLever SystemsEnergy ConservationAbility of Materials to Resist ForceDynamic StabilitySummaryChapter 9. Joint, Bone, Muscle, and FasciaJoint TypesBonesMusclesConnective Tissue and FasciaSummaryPart III. Exercises for Anatomical ImageryChapter 10. Pelvis, Hip Joint, and CompanyPelvic ArchesBalancing the PelvisMotion of the Pelvic HalvesCounterrotation and Three-Dimensional AlignmentPelvic PowerhouseHip Joint and FemurIliopsoas and PiriformisThe Fascia of the Thigh and LegSummaryChapter 11. Knee, Lower Leg, and FootGet to Know Your KneeFascia of the Lower LimbTibia, Fibula, and AnkleFootInteraction of Fasciae, Muscles, and Ligaments of the Leg and FootSummaryChapter 12. Spine and Body WallVertebraeIntervertebral DiscsThe Spine’s Curved DesignSacrum and PelvisSpinal LigamentsMusculature of the Abdomen and BackAbdominal WallAbdominal Muscles and the Concept of Core StabilitySummaryChapter 13. Shoulders, Arms, and HandsSuspension of the Shoulder GirdleGlenohumeral JointHumeroscapular RhythmElbowWrist and HandSummaryChapter 14. Head and NeckAtlas and AxisFasciae of the NeckSkullFasciae of the Head and FaceSuboccipitalsMandibleHyoid and TongueEyesNose and MouthSummaryChapter 15. Rib Cage, Breath, and OrgansRib CageBreathSupport and Breathing for Abdominal OrgansHeartSkin as an OrganSummaryPart IV. Returning to Holistic AlignmentChapter 16. Definitions of Dynamic AlignmentPlumb LineMedian AlignmentDefining Ideal AlignmentDynamic Versus Static AlignmentDynamic and Static StabilityPulling Up and Ideal AlignmentSummaryChapter 17. Integrating Dynamic Alignment ExercisesAlignment in Supine PositionsAlignment in Sitting PositionsStanding and Walking AlignmentReleasing Excess TensionContinuing Imagery Exercises
£42.30
Yale University Press The Plays the Thing
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£42.75
Jessica Kingsley Publishers Authentic Movement: Moving the Body, Moving the
Book SynopsisPraise for the first volume:'It is very valuable to have [this collection of articles] all together in one place…a rich repository of insights and experiences for all the somatic disciplines. It is a wonderful collection of articles.' - Somatics This second volume on Authentic Movement - a new discipline aiding the creative process in choreography, writing, theatre performance, dance, graphic and expressivearts, as well as spirituality - is an engaging and dynamic collection of scholarly essays, personal stories, practical suggestions and resources. It reflects cutting edge work on creative expression, meditative discipline and psychotherapeutic endeavour.Part I comprises five chapters written by the most prominent Authentic Movement practitioners and teachers and introducing the foundations and principles of Authentic Movement. In Part II, the contributors return to the source of Authentic Movement - the psychotherapeutic setting - and provide an in-depth examination of the personal processes in the therapeutic relationship and the potential of Authentic Movement to facilitate personal growth and change. Part III traces the development of Authentic Movement as a spiritual path and as interface with other spiritual practices. Part IV provides an overview of new developments in Authentic Movement, Part V offers inspiring personal accounts and Part VI provides guidelines drawn from practice as well as tools and resources. These latter chapters sow the seeds for a new understanding and directions for the developments of Authentic Movement.This authoritative text is indispensable for practitioners of Authentic Movement, students and teachers working in the field of dance therapy, art therapists, all creative arts therapists and body psychoanalysts.Trade ReviewAn Exquisite offering to Therapists, Artists and anybody with a desire to look deeply into the relationship with the self, with other, the earth and the devine. Satisfied intellectually, creatively, emotionally and spiritually I can happily recommend this book as a long term investment for Creative Art Therapists. -- JIDCATAn impressive array of historical, clinical, theoretical and educational papers by the two living pioneers... And over three dozen practitioners who have developed this form in various settings and communities throughout the world. -- Body, Movement and Dance in PsychotherapyMy experience of this collection of essays is that many of the chapters stand on their own as entirely fascinating, expanding and enriching of insights,perspectives and accounts of highly creative work being done by skilled and adaptable practitioners. -- British Psychodrama and Sociodrama JournalPatrizia Pallaro has compiled a collection of must-read works from contemporary authors and practitioners experienced in the discipline of Authentic Movement...Pallaro's book will kindle a passion for the process of Authentic Movement in all who read these excellent articles, novice and expert alike. It is particularly recommended for those advanced in the fields of psychology, dance/movement therapy, and body-based psychotherapies. -- American Journal of Dance TherapyThis book, like Authentic Movement, opens doors to the outside world as well as the inside one. -- Dance and Body Psychotherapy JournalTable of ContentsContents. Acknowledgments. Introduction, Patrizia Pallaro. Part One: The foundation. 1. From Autism to the Discipline of Authentic Movement. Janet Adler. 2. Inner-Directed Movement in Analysis: Early Beginnings. Joan Chodorow. 3. Reflections on Mary Starks Whitehouse. Susan Frieder. 4. A Dancing Spirit: Remembering Mary Starks Whitehouse. Edith Sullwold with Mary Ramsay. 5. Authentic Movement. Daphne Lowell. 6. The Road In: Elements of the Study and Practice of Authentic Movement. Tina Stromsted and Neala Haze. 7. Witnessing and the Chest of Drawers. Alton Wasson. Part Two: Psychotherapy. 8. Authentic Movement as Active Imagination. Penny Parker Lewis. 9. Moving Towards Complexity: The Myth of Echo and Narcissus. Antonella Adorisio. 10. On synchrony. Julie Joslyn Brown and Zoë Avstreih. 11. Journeying Between Will and Surrender in Authentic Movements: A Personal and Clinical Perspective. Marcia Plevin. 12. Authentic Movement in Clinical Work. Shira Musicant. 13. Authentic Movement: Clinical and Theoretical Considerations. Shira Musicant. 14. Against the Wall, Her Beating Heartt: Working with the Somatic Aspects of Transference, Countertransference and Dissociation. Barbara Holifield. 15. Merging and Differentiating. Wendy Wyman-McGinty. 16. Somatic Countertransference: The Therapist in Relationship. Patrizia Pallaro. 17. Authentic Movement: A Safe Place for Group Therapy. Anne Hebert Smith. 18. The Dancing Body in Psychotherapy: Reflections on Somatic Psychotherapy and Authentic Movement. Tina Stromsted. 19. The Body in Analysis: Authentic Movement and Witnessing in Analytic Practice. Wendy Wyman-McGinty. Part Three: Spirituality. 20. The Discipline of Authentic Movement as Mystical Practice: Evolving Moments in Janet Adler's Life and Work. Tina Stromsted. 21. From Seeing to Knowing. Janet Adler. 22. Achieving Body Permanence: Authentic Movement and the Paradox of Healing. Zoë Avstreih. 23. Calling Spirit Home: How Body Becomes Vessel for Spiritual Animation. Jeanne Castle. 24. Authentic Movement: A Theoretical Framework Based in Tibetan Buddhist thought. Carol Fields. Part Four: New horizons. 25. Authentic Movement as a Form of Dance Ritual. Daphne Lowell. 26. Being Seen, Being Moved: Authentic Movement and Performance. Andrea J. Olsen. 27. Learning to Love: How Art Therapy and Authentic Movement Transform Being. Suzanne Lovell. 28. Moving Toward Health: Authentic Movement and Breast Cancer. Sandy Dibbell-Hope. 29. The Discovery of Deep Ecology through the Body: A Practice in Authentic Movement. Cassielle Alaya Bull. 30. Oracles: Authentic Movement and the I Ching. Susan Bauer. 31. Authentic Movement: From Embryonic Curl to Creative Thrust. Ariane Goodwin. 32. The Pleasure of the Text: Embodying Classical Theatrical Language through the Practice of Authentic Movement. Judith Koltai. 33. The Movement of All Things: Authentic Movement and Quantum Physics. Marcia Plevin. 34. Moving the Outer Rim In: Authentic Movement and Nonviolence. Lisa Tsetse. Part Five: Personal stories. 35. Shadow and Other. Sandy Dibbell-Hope. 36. Dances Left in Time and Space: Passing on Lineage with Grace. Heidi Ehrenreich. 37. Unlocking, Unblocking the Temple Door. Wendy Goulston. 38. There is an Angel. Soraia Jorge. 39. The Seeker and the Seer. Bill McCully. 40. Tracing the Brace. Margareta Neuberger. 41. Riding the Wave's Edge. Jan Sandman. 42. Moving and Seeing: Manhood Come Tumbling Down. Sox Sperry. 43. Stirred to Action. David Mars. Part Six: After notes. 44. Questions: Teaching the Discipline. Janet Adler. 45. Guidelines in Practice: Authentic Movement in a Leaderless Group. Leaderless Berkeley Collective 1995. 46. Authentic Movement: Guidelines for a Providence Shared-Lead Group. Lynn Garland. 47. Resources. Contributors. Subject Index. Author Index.
£35.14
Human Kinetics Publishers Essentials of Dance Psychology
Book SynopsisThe topic of sport psychology is hardly new—but Essentials of Dance Psychology applies it to dance in a way that sets it apart from all other sport psychology texts available to dance students, instructors, and professionals.Through Essentials of Dance Psychology, readers will come to understand why dancers think and behave as they do and how to design healthy, creative dance environments that lead to both well-being and optimal performance.The book is built on a foundation of evidence from dance and sport psychology research, with applied experiences used as examples throughout. Where appropriate, evidence from other areas of psychology—for example, cognitive behavioral therapy—is used. A thorough coverage of topics relevant to dancers, teachers, and others working to support dancers is included, making the book suitable for one slightly longer course or two short courses in introductory dance psychology.The book is organized into four parts. Part I delves into dancers’ individual differences, examining how personality, perfectionism, self-esteem, self-confidence, and anxiety factor into performance and well-being. Part II explores topics related to dance-specific characteristics such as motivation, attentional focus, and creativity. In part III, readers learn about a range of psychological skills, including mindfulness, goal setting, self-regulation, and imagery. Part IV examines topics related to dance environments and challenges, zeroing in on the social aspects of teaching and learning dance, the challenges of talent identification and development, injuries, body image, and disordered eating.Student-friendly textbook features in each chapter include the following: Relevant definitions A case study that shows how the chapter’s topics can be expressed or experienced in practice One or more Get Practical exercises, which prompt readers to apply or reflect on the chapter’s concepts (These exercises come with either downloadable worksheets or audio, delivered through HKPropel Access.) A roundup of further research needed in each content area, which can inspire research projects for students and professionals alike Key points to reinforce the learning, with particular emphasis on applications Materials available through HKPropel Access include downloadable worksheets, three audio files with guided exercises, vocabulary study aids, lettering art, and two goal-setting templates. In addition, an instructor pack provides chapter summaries, a course outline, a test bank, and a PowerPoint presentation package.Essentials of Dance Psychology offers readers the opportunity to understand sport psychology from the vantage point of a dancer. The text will help develop dance teachers who are able to inspire and sustain high levels of performance and psychological health among dancers. It will also help other professionals who work with dancers to implement evidence-based practices that enhance and sustain dancers’ lives and careers.Note: A code for accessing HKPropel is included with all new print books.Table of ContentsIntroduction to Dance PsychologyWhat Is Dance Psychology?Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Dance PsychologyPart I. Individual DifferencesChapter 1. PersonalityWhat Is Personality?Structure of PersonalityOrigins of PersonalityConsequences of PersonalityNarrow Identity: Are Dancers at Risk?Chapter 2. PerfectionismWhat Is Perfectionism?Origins of Perfectionism in DanceConsequences of PerfectionismHow Can Perfectionism Be Managed?Chapter 3. Self-Esteem and Self-ConfidenceWhat Are Self-Esteem and Self-Confidence?Origins of Self-EsteemConsequences of Self-EsteemOrigins of Self-ConfidenceConsequences of Self-ConfidenceHow Can Self-Esteem and Self-Confidence Be Strengthened?Chapter 4. AnxietyWhat Is Anxiety?Sources of AnxietyConsequences of AnxietyHow Can Anxiety Be Managed?Part II. Dance-Specific Characteristics and DispositionsChapter 5. MotivationWhat Is Motivation?Achievement Goal Theory Perspective on MotivationSelf-Determination Theory Perspective on MotivationHow Can Healthy Motivation Be Nurtured? An Intrapersonal PerspectiveChapter 6. Attentional FocusWhat Is Attentional Focus?Performance-Related Consequences of Different Attentional FociAttentional Focus Research in DanceWhy Attentional Focus Has an ImpactHow Can Optimal Attentional Focus Be Nurtured?Chapter 7. CreativityWhat Is Creativity?Sources of CreativityCorrelates of CreativityHow Can Creativity Be Nurtured?Part III. Psychological SkillsChapter 8. MindfulnessWhat Is Mindfulness?Origins of MindfulnessConsequences of MindfulnessMindfulness Research in DanceWhy Mindfulness Has an ImpactHow Can Mindfulness Be Nurtured?Chapter 9. Goal Setting and Self-RegulationWhat Is Goal Setting?Sources of Goals: Assigned Goals Versus Personal ValuesConsequences of Goal SettingWhy Goal Setting Has an ImpactWhat Is Self-Regulation?How Can Goal Setting and Self-Regulation Be Optimized?Chapter 10. ImageryWhat Is Imagery?Revised Applied Model of Deliberate Imagery UseSources of ImageryConsequences of ImageryWhy Imagery Has an ImpactHow Can Imagery Be Optimized?Part IV. Dance Environments and ChallengesChapter 11. Motivational ClimatesWhat Is a Motivational Climate?Achievement Goal Theory (AGT) Perspective: Task- and Ego-Involving ClimatesSelf-Determination Theory Perspective: Need-Supportive Versus Controlling LeadershipOrigins of Motivational Climates: What Makes Teachers Support or Thwart Healthy Motivation?Consequences of Motivational ClimatesHow Are Healthy Motivational Climates Created?Chapter 12. TalentWhat Is Talent?Sources of TalentConsequences of Talent Beliefs and of Talent IdentificationHow Can Talent Identification and Development Be Optimized?Chapter 13. InjuryWhat Are the Key Psychological Aspects of Injury in Dance?Psychological Risk Factors for Acute Injury: Stress-Injury ModelBeyond the Stress-Injury Model: Other Psychological Risk Factors for Dance InjuryDancers’ Experiences of Becoming and of Being InjuredPsychological Aspects of Injury RehabilitationUsing Psychology to Reduce Injury Risk and Optimize RehabilitationChapter 14. Body Image and Disordered EatingWhat Is Body Image?Eating Disorders Versus Disordered EatingOrigins of Negative Body Image and Disordered Eating in DanceConsequences of Body Image and Disordered EatingHow Can Healthy Body Image Be Nurtured?How Can Disordered Eating Be Prevented, Identified, and Managed?
£72.90
Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd Royal Academy of Dance: Celebrating 100 Years
Book SynopsisWith a global membership of 14,000 and a presence in 84 countries, the Royal Academy of Dance has grown from its foundation in 1920 into one of the world's most influential dance education organisations. This lavishly illustrated volume celebrates 100 years of dancing and education, performances and competitions, and the Academy's many successful outreach projects. The book features special sections on music, choreography and costume, and on the traditions that many of those who have taken a ballet exam will remember.
£26.25
Hodder & Stoughton Jojo
Book Synopsis*THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER!*Champion dancer and Strictly Come Dancing professional Johannes Radebe has captured our hearts with his mesmerising talent, bringing joy to millions of fans and wowing the most critical of judges. He is loved not only for his dancing, but for his beautiful, infectious spirit and energy.Jojo: Finally Home is his never-before-told story, where he shares the experiences and challenges he''s faced - from growing up in Zamdela, a township in South Africa, as a young boy with a passion for dance (and playing with Barbies), to becoming the star he is today. Dance transformed Jojo''s future, giving him a tool to express himself - but as you will learn, this was not always easy.Captivating and moving, these are Jojo''s tales of euphoric highs and all-time lows, of making history, of grief, love, family and opportunity. It is a celebration of him finally feeling at home in his own skin. These are the per
£10.44
MH - Indiana University Press Dance Spectacle and the Body Politick 12501750
Book SynopsisAn engaging overview of dance from the Medieval era through the BaroqueTrade ReviewA big bite of dance history scholarship is undertaken in this study, and it does not seem to be too big for Jennifer Nevile, the editor of the volume, to chew. She manages to weave an introduction into the book, and each of its six subsections make the promise of its lofty title (and the ideas it appears to embrace) within her grasp. Given the book's vast chronological sweep-rather more than the 500 years suggested in the title, since the very useful essay on 'Plato's Philosophy of Dance' by Graham Pont increases the range substantially-it was my guess, when I embarked on my journey through its pages, that I would find some themes on spectacle or the carnivalesque that would override chronology. Or maybe there would be a sociological/anthropological approach to the embodiment of status relationships (politics) through dance that would render chronology secondary to social configurations. With excited anticipation I dove in, expecting to find something along these lines. Although I was not disappointed, I discovered something quite different. The book features a nice selection of generally excellent essays by some leading authorities in historical dance. Each essay offers information situated in its own time frame, and each presents a secure control of primary and secondary sources and includes a very useful list of recommended reading at its conclusion. Some essays provide tantalizing new details (John S. Powell's piece on Beauchamps and public theaters in 17th-century France and David R. Wilson's review of the basse danse are good examples). Some interpret well-known material in new and promising ways. Jennifer Thorp's piece on 'Dance in the London Theatres c.1700-1750' makes me look forward to her important new work. Two essays review material the authors have already addressed, but nevertheless do so here in a compellingly compact way; Ken Pierce's offering on the choreographic structure of Barouque dance and Margaret M. McGowan's essay on court dancing in 16th and 17th-century France. Only a pair of essays (not counting the deceptively erudite and versatile 'Introduction and Overview' by Nevile herself) really fit the themes of bodies, politics, and spectacle announced by the title. Julia Prest's offering on politics and ballet in Louis XIV's France is pretty perfunctory. But Linda J. Tomko's essay on 'Mr. Issac's The Pastorall and Issues of "Party"' really does embrace the kind of inquiry I was expecting. Tomko's is a truly analytical study that responds with vibrancy to the themes called for by the volume's editor. Most of the authors represented here undertake their tasks with precision and skill. Many succeed, and all should be acknowledged for their contribution: those not already mentioned include Alessandro Arcangeli; Katherine Tucker McGinnis, and Karen Silen. Jennifer Nevile's multiple contributions to the volume cannot be praised sufficiently; her essays on Renaissance dance are impressive, her introduction to the volume full of perception. I suppose we must await some future in which an individual truly finds a connection among the various manifestations of social, stage, and court dancing over the ages. But I wonder if this is really important. Dance, after all, is body, is spectacle, is 'politik' (however we configure it). I'm just not sure that Guglielmo Ebreo (15th century), Cesare Negri (c. 1535-after 1604), or Mr. Isaac (late 17th, early 18th century) shared some common agenda (let alone believed they did) when they created their splendid dances. Nevile, nevertheless, would have us believe that something like the same bodies, the same spectacles, the same kinds of politics were enacted (perhaps unintentionally) over and over again across the centuries addressed in this volume. Maybe she is right. The scholars she has brought together, however, do not appear to espouse such a grandiose vision but appear more concerned with a narrower, well-informed view of dancing in a given place at a given time. Congratulations to them all, and to Nevile for bringing this impressive collection to life. I have profited considerably from reading the offerings presented here, and I am certain others will, too. I will recommend readings from this volume to my students for years to come. -- Richard Semmens * Early Music America : Mag Historical Perf *Jennifer Nevile's accessibly written anthology seeks to explore many now obscure aspects of early dance: contributions by twelve scholars elucidate the fascinating, multifarious nature of dance from the thirteenth to the eighteenth century. . . . contributors demonstrate a high scholarly standard and pursue their chosen themes with assurance and passion. The great forte of this collection is its ambitious, multidisciplinary range, and the authors' practical insight, honed by years of performance experience, represents a rare feat indeed. The book should be required reading in dance studies.62 Summer 2009 -- Barbara Ravelhofer * Univeristy of Dunham *A big bite of dance history scholarship is undertaken in this study, and it does not seem to be too big for Jennifer Nevile, the editor of the volume, to chew. . . . Congratulations to . . . Nevile for bringing this impressive collection to life. I have profited considerably from reading the offerings presented here, and I am certain others will, too. I will recommend readings from this volume to my students for years to come. Spring 2009 -- Richard Semmens * University of Western Ontario, Professor of Music History *Nevile . . . has assembled an intriguing book that in many ways serves as an encyclopedia of early dance—a feat not easily accomplished in one volume. . . . [T]his is a fine resource for those who research this specialized period of dance history. An excellent glossary and bibliography and a 'list of dance treatises, manuscripts, modern editions, and translations' complete the book. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students and researchers.March 2009 * Choice *This is a great book for understanding music, dance and the part they played in the period covering 1250-1750, in Europe. It is filled with a whole cosmology of ideas. How the arc of five centuries connect, are enmeshed, develop and flow into our own day. This book is a treasure.Winter 2008 -- Paul-James Dwyer * Toronto Early Music Quarterly *The balanced assortment of general introductions and detailed case studies makes Dance, Spectacle, and the Body Politick, 1250-1750 a useful collection and an engaging 'read' for dance enthusiasts, reconstructors, and scholars alike. -- Emily Winerock * Dance Chronicle *[This] collection more than fulfills its goal of opening up pre-1750 dance studies to a general readership, but will also be of interest to the more informed dance historian. * Historical Dance *Dance, Spectacle, and the Body Politick makes an important contribution to existing dance scholarship ... The essays in Nevile's collection add significantly to this diligent work. Every essay is both informative and interesting, and each author provides a valuable list of further readings on the topic.Volume 16 Issue 2 2011 * European Legacy *This well-researched and original collection of essays on early dance addresses the picture of dance in society from 1250 to 1750. The interdisciplinary and wide-ranging approach of the book makes it very valuable for dance historians, musicologists and historians of ideas alike, as well as anyone interested in dance history. Issue 78, Autumn 2010 * Cahiers Elisabethains *. . . this ambitious anthology . . . manages to fill an academic void . . . .Vol. 35.1 2010 -- Nicole Haitzinger * University of Salzburg *An important book for any musician, theatrical performer, dancer, historian, reconstructor or anyone involved in recreating the work of this time period. Essays with detailed notes, glossary, bibliography and a list of dance treatises, manuscripts, modern editions and published translations are worth the price of the book alone. A great book for understanding music, dance and the part they played in the period covering 1250-1750, in Europe.Summer 2009 -- Paul-James Dwyer * Dance International *Table of ContentsPart 1. Introduction and Overview1. Dance in Europe 1250–1750Part 2. Dance at Court and in the City2. Dance in Late Thirteenth-Century Paris3. Dance and Society in Quattrocento Italy4. Dance in Sixteenth- and Early Seventeenth-Century FrancePart 3. Dance and the Public Theater5. Pierre Beauchamps and the Public Theater6. Dance in the London Theaters c. 1700–1750Part 4. Choreographic Structure and Music7. The Relationship between Dance and Music in Fifteenth-Century Italian Dance Practice 8. The Basse Dance c. 1445–c. 15459. Choreographic Structure in Baroque DancePart 5. Dance and the State10. Your Most Humble Subject, Cesare Negri Milanese11. The Politics of Ballet at the Court of Louis XIV12. Mr. Isaac's The Pastorall and Issues of "Party"Part 6. Dance, Society, and the Cosmos13. Plato's Philosophy of Dance14. Moral Views on Dance15. Order, Proportion, and Geometric Forms: The Cosmic Structure of Dance, Grand Gardens, and Architecture during the RenaissanceList of Dance Treatises, Manuscripts, Modern Editions, and TranslationsGlossaryBibliographyList of ContributorsIndex
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OMNIBUS PRESS ESSNTL ELEMENTS 2000 1 VLA BKCDDVD
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Harvard University Press Pursuits of Happiness The Hollywood Comedy of
Book SynopsisDuring the ’30s and ’40s, Hollywood produced a genre of madcap comedies that emphasized reuniting the central couple after divorce or separation. Here, Cavell examines seven of those classic movies for their cinematic techniques, and for such varied themes as feminism, liberty and interdependence.Trade ReviewThe great achievement of…Pursuits of Happiness is that it finally provides a solid framework for the serious discussion of the great dialogue comedies of the thirties and forties, perhaps the most revived and loved movies of Hollywood’s golden period. -- Al LaValley * American Film *This just must be, in its close readings and its stunning associations, one of the most compelling accounts of its kind. The fact is, it just is its kind. -- Geoffrey Hawthorn * London Review of Books *This is a voice like no other in philosophy, today or ever. -- Arthur C. Danto * October *No book about the art of Hollywood I have ever read can make its readers stop and think more effectively than this one. -- S. S. Prawer * Times Literary Supplement *Stanley Cavell’s book succeeds brilliantly… The individual ‘readings’ of the films and the general conceptual plan in which they are embedded are both so rich and rewarding that…‘brilliant’…seems an understatement. -- Gerald Mast * Journal of Aesthetic Education *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Words for a Conversation 1. Cons and Pros The Lady Eve 2. Knowledge as Transgression It Happened One Night 3. Leopards in Connecticut Bringing up Baby 4. The Importance of Importance The Philadelphia Story 5. Counterfeiting Happiness His Girl Friday 6. The Courting of Marriage Adam's Rib 7. The Same and Different The Awful Truth Appendix: Film in the University Acknowledgments Index
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Harvard University Press Keeping Together in Time
Book SynopsisMcNeil pursues the possibility that coordinated rhythmic movement—and the shared feelings it evokes—has been a powerful force in holding human groups together. As he has done for historical phenomena as diverse as warfare, plague, and the pursuit of power, he brings a dazzling breadth and depth of knowledge to his study.Trade ReviewIn his imaginative and provocative book...William H. McNeill develops an unconventional notion that, he observes, is 'simplicity itself.' He maintains that people who move together to the same beat tend to bond and thus that communal dance and drill alter human feelings. -- John Mueller * New York Times Book Review *Every now and then, a slender, graceful, unassuming little volume modestly proposes a radical rethinking of human history. Such a book is Keeping Together in Time...Important, witty, and thoroughly approachable, [it] could, perhaps, only be written by a scholar in retirement with a lifetime's interdisciplinary reading to ponder, the imagination to conceive unanswerable questions, and the courage, in this age of over-speculation, to speculate in areas where certainty is impossible. Its vision of dance as a shaper of evolution, a perpetually sustainable and sustaining resource, would crown anyone's career. -- Penelope Reed Doob * Toronto Globe and Mail *McNeill is one of our greatest living historians...As usual with McNeill, Keeping Together in Time contains a wonderfully broad survey of practices in other times and places. There are the Greeks, who invented the flute-accompanied phalanx, and the Romans, who invented calling cadence while marching. There are the Shakers, who combined worship and dancing, and the Mormons, who carefully separated the functions but who prospered at least as much on the strength of their dancing as their Sunday morning worship. -- David Warsh * Boston Sunday Globe *[A] wide-ranging and thought-provoking book...A mind-stretching exploration of the thesis that `keeping together in time'--army drill, village dances, and the like--consolidates group solidarity by making us feel good about ourselves and the group and thus was critical for social cohesion and group survival in the past. * Virginia Quarterly Review *[This book is] nothing less than a survey of the historical impact of shared rhythmic motion from the paleolithic to the present, an impact that [McNeill] finds surprisingly significant...McNeill moves beyond Durkheim in noting that in complex societies divided by social class muscular bonding may be the medium through which discontented and oppressed groups can gain the solidarity necessary for challenging the existing social order. -- Robert N. Bellah * Commonweal *The title of this fascinating essay contains a pun that sums up its thesis" keeping together in time, or coordinated rhythmic movement and the shared feelings it evokes, has kept human groups together throughout history. Most of McNeill's pioneering study is devoted to the history of communal dancing...[This] volume will appeal equally to scholars and to the general reader. -- Doyne Dawson * Military History *As with so many themes [like this one], whether in science or in symphonies, one wonders (in retrospect) why it has not been invented before...[T]he book is fascinating. -- K. Kortmulder * Acta Biotheoretica (The Netherlands) *This scholarly and creative exploration of the largely unresearched phenomenon of shared euphoria aroused by unison movement moves across the disciplines of dance, history, sociology, and psychology...Highly recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsMuscular Bonding Human Evolution Small Communities Religious Ceremonies Politics and War Conclusion Notes Index
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Templar Publishing Welcome to the Arts: Dance
Book SynopsisBrilliantly curated and beautifully illustrated, the Welcome to the Arts series offers all-hours admission to some of the world's most wondrous performances.From Swan Lake to Riverdance, flamenco to tap, Dance features some of the most iconic performances and popular dances from around the world. Learn about the history, culture, evolution and technique of each dance, while also discovering the stars of past and present, including Fred Astaire, Carlos Acosta, Martha Graham and much more. Exclusive backstage access also allows you to see what goes on behind the theatre doors, including prop and costume design.Expertly written by Sir Alistair Spalding and published in conjunction with Sadler's Wells, this beautifully illustrated book is also a large format, so the whole family can be immersed in the wonderful world of dance.The perfect gift for any Strictly fan, musical lover or budding dancer.Trade ReviewPut on your dancing shoes and waltz, shimmy and tap your way through a spectacular reading journey in the pages of one of this year's most dazzling books....A book for all the family to treasure! * Lancashire Evening Post *A beautiful read. * Woman's Weekly *A showstopper that practically demands applause. -- Lucy Bannerman * The Times *An oversized thrilling introduction to all forms of dance [...] it's a superb gift for dance lovers aged eight-plus. -- Imogen Russell-Williams * Metro *
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Jessica Kingsley Publishers The Moving Researcher: Laban/Bartenieff Movement
Book SynopsisThis comprehensive book will serve as a step-by-step guide to Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis, updating and expanding concepts and practices. Following extensive research on the method developed by Rudolf von Laban and his disciples, this book explains movement principles, exercises, and motif symbols in detail. Organized according to the four categories of Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis (Body-Effort-Shape-Space), additional chapters present the different developments of the theory in relation to performing arts and movement therapy. The author draws on Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis as a dynamic and connective approach, traveling from classroom and studio to everyday life, stage performance, and film acting. The Laban perspective serves as a multimedia artistic viewpoint, intertwining theory, learning, and imagery.This unique approach to this internationally used method is essential reading for educators and students of dance and other performing arts and movement-related professions.Trade ReviewFernandes' book is as comprehensive an overview of Laban Movement Analysis as any book thus far. It is detailed, specific, and full of clear definitions, examples, and stories about the work. A must-have for all students and professional movement analysts! -- Karen Bradley, Director of Graduate Studies in Dance, University of MarylandThis is an extensive and intensive body of research. A new text book for Laban practitioners and scholars, a first-class resource for all in pursuit of articulation of the grammar and semantics of Movement and its field of application. A real highlight is the scopic yet detailed exposition of Bartenieff Fundamentals™. This should be "shared among all of us who have the passion drive for movement and the action drive for research". -- Anna Carlisle, MA MBE, President of the Laban GuildTable of ContentsForeword. Regina Miranda. Preface to the English edition. 1. The Development of Rudolf Von Laban's Movement Theories. 1.1 The process of movement: An expanded outline of the application of Laban theory to movement. Jackie Hand, Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies, USA. 1.2. Voicing the practice: Laban's embodied immigration to Brazil. Melina Scialom. 1.3. Choreology and Choreological Studies. Júlio Mota, Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná. 1.4 How to move things and words: Laban's Moving Analysis as Somatic-Performative Research. 1.5. Autistic or Artistic? Laban's theories applied to child disability as somatic performative integration. 2. Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis: Interartistic Practice, Creativity, and Dynamic Writing. 2.1. Dance theater and Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis. 2.2. Infinite dance: Dynamic bodies and concepts. 2.3. Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis and Labanotation. 2.4. The 'Mastery of Movement': The categories of Body-Effort-Shape-Space. 2.5. The dialogue among the arts in total body expression. 3. Among Rocks, Reptiles and Connective Wind Currents: The Body. 3.1. Bartenieff Principles. 3.1.1. Breath Support and Kinetic Chains. 3.1.2. Core Support. 3.1.3. Dynamic Alignment. 3.1.4. Body Organizations and Developmental Movement Patterns. 3.1.5. Bony Connections. 3.1.6. Weight Shift for Locomotion. 3.1.7. Initiation and Sequencing. 3.1.8. Gradated Rotation. 3.1.9. Effort Life for Body Connectivity. 3.1.10. Spatial Intent. 3.2. Bartenieff Fundamentals. 3.2.1. Preparatory Exercises. 3.2.2. The Basic Six. 3.3. Posture/Gesture Merger. 3.4. Gesture and Posture according to Laban and Lamb. Júlio Mota. 3.4.1. The Legacy of Rudolf von Laban. 3.5. Other Concepts and Symbols of Body. 3.5.1. Body Parts. 3.5.2. Upper and Lower Limbs. 3.5.3. Bodily Actions. 4. Effort or Eukinetics: Pitches and Colors of a Poetic Body. 4.1. The Flow Factor. 4.1.1. Free flow. 4.1.2. Bound flow. 4.2. The space factor. 4.2.1. Indirect space. 4.2.2. Direct space. 4.3. The weight factor. 4.3.1. Light weight. 4.3.2. Strong weight. 4.4. The time factor. 4.2.1. Sustained time. 4.2.2. Quick time. 4.5. The Effort Factors and Quaternary Correspondences. 4.6. Pre-Effort. 4.6.1. Space Pre-Effort. 4.6.2. Weight Pre-Effort. 4.6.3. Time Pre-Effort. 4.7. The Combination of Factors. 4.7.1. Effort States. 4.7.2. Effort Drives. 4.8. Effort Phrases and Phrasing. 4.8.1. Effort Phrases. 4.8.2. Effort Phrasing. 5. Putting the Body Relationships in Shape. 5.1. Shape Flow. 5.1.1. Growing/opening/unfolding. 5.1.2. Shrinking/closing/folding. 5.1.3. Growing and Shrinking Alternately. 5.2. Spoke-Like and Arc-Like Directional. 5.3. Shaping. 5.4. Specific Shapes Created by the Body. 5.5. Relationships. 6. The Architecture of Moving Spaces. 6.1. Space Harmony. Susanne Schlicher, Professor/Dramaturg, Theaterakademie Hamburg/Hochschule für Musik und Theater (Hamburg University of Music and Theatre. 6.1.1. Space Harmony and Bartenieff Fundamentals. 6.2. Kinesphere. 6.3. Reach Space. 6.3.1. Small Kinesphere- Near Reach. 6.3.2. Medium Kinesphere- Mid Reach. 6.3.3. Large Kinesphere- Far Reach. 6.4. Crosses of Axes. 6.4.1. Standard Cross of Axes. 6.4.2. Body Cross of Axes. 6.4.3. Constant Cross of Axes. 6.5. Crystalline Forms. 6.5.1. The Tetrahedron. 6.5.2. The Octahedron and its Three Dimensions. 6.5.3. The Cube and its Four Diagonals. 6.5.4. The Icosahedron and its Three Planes. 6.5.5. The Dodecahedron and its Three Planes. 6.6. Spatial Pathway. 6.6.1. Central Pathway. 6.6.2. Transverse Pathway. 6.6.3. Peripheral Pathway. 6.7. Spatial Tension. 6.7.1. Central Tension. 6.7.2. Transverse Tension. 6.7.3. Peripheral Tension. 6.8. Other concepts and symbols of Space. 7. Associating Body-Effort-Shape-Space. 7.1. Choreutics: Tuning and turning compositions. 7.1.1. Affinities in the Octahedron Dimensions. 7.1.2. Affinities in the Cube Diagonals. 7.1.3. Affinities in the Isocahedron Planes. 7.1.4. From points in Space to movement composition: The Personal Scale. 7.1.5. From Shape Flow to movement composition: Authentic Movement. 7.2. Body Attitude. 7.2.1. Body. 7.2.2. Effort Stress. 7.2.3. Shape Stress. 7.2.4. Space Stress. 7.3. Themes of Continuous Dynamics and Change. 7.3.1. Inner/Outer. 7.3.2. Exertion/Recuperation. 7.3.3. Function/Expression. 7.3.4. Mobility/Stability. 8. Mapping Bodily Histories: Drawing the Moving Body-Text. 8.1. The observation of human movement for description. 8.2. The description of human movement. 8.2.1. The Effort-Shape Horizontal Motif. 8.2.2. The Discursive Description and the Vertical Motif Description. 8.2.3. The Detailed Description. 8.3. Simplified Movement Analysis. 8.3.1. LMA Simplified Coding Sheet. 8.3.2. Filling Out the Simplified Coding Sheet- An Example. 8.3.3. Applying the Simplified Coding Sheet to dance movement analysis: Bahian urban environment and daily life in the moves of 'Hidden Agenda' by Tran Chan Dance Company. 8.4. Detailed Movement Analysis. 8.4.1. LMA Detailed Coding Sheet. 8.4.2. Filling out the Detailed Coding Sheet- An Example. 8.4.3. Applying the Detailed Coding Sheet to character movement analysis: Carmen Maura in the Pedro Almodóvar's film 'Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.' Ciane Fernandes. Susanne Schlicher. Rosel Grassmann, Artist and Director at Wilderness BodyPainting, Independent Concept and Photo Artist of Movement Studies. Works Cited.
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MIT Press Ltd Digital Performance A History of New Media in
Book SynopsisThe historical roots, key practitioners, and artistic, theoretical, and technological trends in the incorporation of new media into the performing arts.The past decade has seen an extraordinarily intense period of experimentation with computer technology within the performing arts. Digital media has been increasingly incorporated into live theater and dance, and new forms of interactive performance have emerged in participatory installations, on CD-ROM, and on the Web. In Digital Performance, Steve Dixon traces the evolution of these practices, presents detailed accounts of key practitioners and performances, and analyzes the theoretical, artistic, and technological contexts of this form of new media art. Dixon finds precursors to today's digital performances in past forms of theatrical technology that range from the deus ex machina of classical Greek drama to Wagner's Gesamtkunstwerk (concept of the total artwork), and draws parallels between contemporary work and the
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Trolley Books Sristi
Book SynopsisSharmila Desai and the art of her unique performance are the source of inspiration for Sristi. Here she presents, through photographs and illustrations, how her art is derived from the practice of ancient Indian worship, and fused with contemporary art and spirituality. Edited by Olivier Berggruen, Sristi also contains a foreword by Trudie Styler and Sting, with essays by Karole Armitage, Olivier Berggruen and Jeffrey Deitch. In Indian worship, Yantra - a pure geometric diagram - is a tool to stimulate inner visualisations, meditations and experiences. One of the predominant elementary diagrams is the triangle, representing the three fold process of creation (Sristi), preservation (Sthithi) and dissolution (Samhara). Shot over a period of seven years by a variety of photographers, this captivating book is an offering to the creative principle of Sristi. It follows the practice of the young, New York-based inspirational force, Sharmila Desai, who has merged many forms of Indian movement beginning with Ashtanga yoga and including elements of the martial art Kalaripayattu and the classical dance, Bharata Natyam. Sristi is edited by Olivier Berggruen, and also contains a foreword by Trudie Styler and Sting, with essays by Karole Armitage, Olivier Berggruen and Jeffrey Deitch. "When I become especially excited about someone who is creating a new type of form, I ask them to present a project at our gallery. I asked Sharmila to develop a project for us without specifying whether or not it should be dance, music or sculpture. It turned out to be a remarkable mixture of all three. Her performance was absorbing and inspiring, an invitation to enter Sharmila's unique spiritual and aesthetic world" - Jeffrey Deitch. "When she teaches you are in the company of an ancient. When she dances, she transforms herself, the goddess emerges and the watcher is transfixed. A beautiful being on whom God shines his light. She is goodness, she is kindness, she is as noble as she is simple. She moves with grace, she embodies grace. There it is: Sharmila Desai is Grace" -Trudie Styler and Sting.
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Harvard University Press Josephine Baker and the Rainbow Tribe
Book SynopsisHer performing days numbered, Josephine Baker did something outrageous: she transformed her chateau into a theme park whose main attraction was her Rainbow Tribe—12 children from around the globe, adopted as the family of the future. Matthew Pratt Guterl concludes that Baker was a serious activist, determined to make a positive difference.Trade ReviewThis book shimmers. The prose is spun gold, the ideas sparkle with intelligence, and the fun’s as high as Josephine Baker—topless in a banana skirt, her caramel skin gleaming —can take it. But in the end, it’s a tragedy… Baker bought a French castle, adopted a dozen children, and made them stand for every race and nation in the world. It went about as well as any other supersized celebrity adoption with a political agenda. But instead of reducing it to farce, Guterl shows us what it all meant… He weaves in new ways to think about identity, success, family, race, celebrity, and Baker herself. -- Jeannette Cooperman * St. Louis Magazine *Guterl is astute about the contradictions in Baker’s experiment and her celebrity, both of which rested on her capacity for reinvention. * New Yorker *Astute and readable… In many ways, this is cultural studies at its best. -- Steven Carroll * Sydney Morning Herald *A few pages into the finely worded, deeply evocative prologue, Guterl asks readers to set aside everything they know about Josephine Baker—but it’s too late, for Guterl has already begun what almost seems a fabulous fairy tale, one commandingly, colorfully told by a masterful contemporary storyteller. Rarely does an author’s voice come across as audibly as Guterl’s, in cadence and sometimes in directives to the reader, and the effect is enchanting—Baker’s story, even more so. Years after chanteuse-dancer Baker’s soaring star fell, she rose once more, this time as a relentless civil rights advocate and the adoptive mother of 12 multiracial children, the ‘Rainbow Tribe,’ whom she then raised and paraded in a theme-park-type castle, Les Milandes, in the French countryside. Here, Guterl winnows out a truth from the many fragments (in biographies, in the press, from the children themselves), positing that ‘it was an inspirational, exaggerated symbol of what was possible at the extreme end of wealth and fame, globally speaking, for anyone and everyone, no matter their skin tone or racial classification.’ A fascinating book about a magnificent woman. -- Eloise Kinney * Booklist *The persona with which Baker (1906–75) captivated the world had already been retooled once by her manager Giuseppe Pepito Abatino. Following World War II, Baker transformed herself again, this time into a universal mother presiding over a dozen children of every race on permanent display at her castle in France’s Dordogne… This work will be enjoyed by all readers. -- Jenny Brewer * Library Journal *Matthew Guterl’s astonishing Josephine Baker and the Rainbow Tribe tells the wholly unsuspected life-story of one of the twentieth-century’s most amazing visionaries. It is an engrossing biography of an extraordinary woman. -- David Levering Lewis, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning W. E. B. Du Bois, 1868–1919 and W. E. B. Du Bois, 1919–1963
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ALFRED PUBLISHING CO.(UK)LTD NURTURED BY LOVE REVISED EDITION
Book SynopsisThe edition is taken from the original japanese text. it provides an insight into the mind of the master.
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Burlesque
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Octopus Publishing Group Catch Your Breath
Book Synopsis''Brilliantly funny.'' - Matt Lucas''You have to read this book.'' - Tim Harford''It''s funny, touching and gobsmacking in equal measure. At its heart is a breathtaking account of life on the COVID frontline.'' - Jay Rayner''Ed''s journey is funny, sad, harrowing, hilarious... I STRONGLY URGE YOU TO READ THIS.'' - Colin Mochrie''Very Funny.'' - Fern Brady''I love your book Catch your Breath, it just feels so personal and so refreshing.'' - Adil Ray, Saturday LiveA gut punch of a memoir by a doctor - and comedian - whose job is to keep people alive by putting them to sleep.Ed Patrick is an anaesthetist.Strong drugs for his patients, strong coffee for him. But it''s not just sleep-giving for this anaesthetist, as he navigates emergencies, patients not breathing for themselves and living with a terrifying sense of responsibility. It''s enough to leave anyone feeling numb.B
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Dance in Handel's London Operas
Book SynopsisExamines the pivotal role of dance in the Italian operas of Handel, perhaps the greatest opera composer between Monteverdi and Mozart. George Frideric Handel set himself apart from his contemporaries by employing choreographed instrumental music to complement and reinforce the emotional impact of his operas. Of his fifty-three operas, no fewer than fourteen -- including ten written for the London stage -- feature dances. Dance in Handel's London Operas explores the relationship between music, drama, and dance in these London works, dispelling the notion that dance was a largely peripheral element in Italian-language operas prior to those of Gluck. Taking a chronological approach, Sarah McCleave examines operas written throughout various periods in Handel's life, beginning with his early London operas,including his time at the Royal Music Academy and the "Sallé" operas of the 1730s, and concluding with his unstaged dramatic opera Alceste (1750). In considering the various influences on Handel (particularly the London stage), McCleave blends analysis of information from eighteenth-century treatises with that found in more modern studies, offering an informed and imaginative understanding of the role dance played in the work of this major figure --one who remained responsive throughout his career to the vital and innovative theatrical environment in which he worked. Sarah McCleave is a lecturer at The School of Creative Arts at Queen's University Belfast.Trade ReviewPlaces Handel's creative decisions in the wider context of European dance traditions and dance on the London stage, frequently referring to contemporary documents. Answers questions such as how the dissemination of French dances through choreographies or through chamber music might have been reflected in the dance types Handel used in his operas, hence addressing how far the types of dances he employed related to public taste. * EARLY MUSIC *Impeccably researched. An exemplary model of how to breathe new life into operas that have been studied as a [purely] vocal repertory. [McCleave's] findings will no doubt be of consequence for singers and opera directors looking to revive Handel's operas. Offers an extraordinary amount of useful information. A valuable resource for any dance, theater, or music historian of eighteenth-century England. * MUSIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION NOTES *The first full-length study of the subject, likely to transform the traditional view. Weaves a rich tapestry from relationships between Handel's output and the presence of dance in the contemporary theatrical scene. . . .The book explore[s] virtually every aspect of dance in Handel's operas. Packed with fresh information. The amount of fresh, detailed information greatly enhances our view of dance and spectacle [in this repertoire]. Anyone interested in Handel's dances -- not only scholars but also performers, conductors, and directors -- will find [this book] essential. An impressive and much-needed piece of scholarship, this book deserves a warm welcome. * JOURNAL OF MUSICOLOGICAL RESEARCH *A data-rich study dealing in uncertainties and ambiguities. . . . Instructive and often revelatory. * MUSICAL TIMES *Dance was a significant area of overlap between opera and other theatrical genres staged in London during the first half of the eighteenth century, and an integral part of the theatrical experience. In Dance in Handel's London Operas, Sarah McCleave shows Handel as the consummate theatrical professional, illuminating his work with and for dancers. --Kathryn Lowerre, author of Music and Musicians on the London Stage, 1695-1705 * . *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Genres of Opera, Styles of Dance Handel's Operas of the 1710s The Royal Academy Operas Handel and the London Theater, 1729-35 Theatrical Dance and Opera in London, 1735-55 The French Connection Pastoral versus Heroic: Handel's Operas with Dance Epilogue: Opera Dance in a Changing Marketplace Appendix 1: A Study of Handel's Compositional Process Appendix 2: Theater and Dance Chronology
£87.30
Jessica Kingsley Publishers Yoga Biomechanics
Book SynopsisYoga Biomechanics: Stretching Redefined provides a unique evidence-based exploration into the complexities of human movement and what a safe, effective yoga practice entails. The emphasis is taken off flexibility and centered around a narrative of body tissue adaptation. Conventional approaches to modern yoga are examined through a biomechanist''s lens, highlighting emerging perspectives in both the rehabilitation and sport science literature. Artfully woven throughout the book is a sub-text that improves the reader''s research literacy while making an impassioned plea for the role of research in the evolution of how teachers teach, and how practitioners practice. Yoga teachers and yoga practitioners alike will discern yoga asana for its role in one''s musculoskeletal health. Yoga therapists and other allied healthcare providers can apply principles discussed to their respective professions. All readers will understand pose modifications in the context of load management, reducing fears of injury and discovering the robustness and resilience of the human body.Coverage includes -Biomechanics Basics; Force, Applied/Modified Loads, and Stress; Progressive Overload and Specificity; Conventional Stretching; Stretching and Performance; Eccentrics; Mechanical Properties of Connective Tissue; Tissue Behavior, Structure, and Composition; Tissue Adaptation, Capacity, and Tension; Exploration into Soft Tissue Injuries; Alignment and PostureFeatures include - Highlights meaningful, evidence-based applications and examples of yoga and/or stretching.Provides guidelines for non-researcher''s critical interpretation of research, helping them to avoid making poor choices based in well-worn beliefs and hackneyed assumption.Pushes teachers to a deeper understanding of biomechanics, beyond simply memorizing anatomy, empowering them to make smart choices for instructing a variety of populations in both private and group class settings.Encourages variety in popular modern-day asana, using props and a keen eye, given our understanding of how the body''s tissues adapt to applied loads.Educates yoga teachers to think beyond the scripted yoga education they received, stretching their minds to further understand and redefine stretching of the human body.
£37.80
Saqi Books Midnight in Cairo
Book SynopsisThe fascinating story of the women of Cairo's decadent interwar nightlife and entertainment industry, which celebrates these feminist cultural icons' triumphs, presenting a unique view of the rise of Arab feminism.Trade ReviewCormack uncovers an unexpected story of powerful women and their no less powerful voices - on stage and behind the scenes. Beguiling and original. - Marina Warner
£16.00
Saqi Books Midnight in Cairo
Book SynopsisThe thrilling story of Cairo's decadent nightlife in the early 20th century, told with women at the centre.Trade Review'A spectacular parade of the extraordinary, bold and brash Egyptian women who shot to fame in the early years of globalised celebrity culture.' The Times; 'A revelation ... in this tremendous act of historical discovery, Cormack has unearthed the regal figures and buried treasures of Cairo's golden age. He is the Howard Carter of the demi-monde.' The Telegraph; 'Midnight in Cairo delivers a place, time and people you'll wish you'd personally known. ... Cormack deftly outlines the shifts in political mood and popular tastes that Cairo's entertainment scene both responded to and inspired.' TLS ;'A captivating journey through [Cairo's] bars, cafes, cabaret clubs and music halls during a magical era when some of its biggest stars were women.' The Herald; 'Fascinating ... Midnight in Cairo is a fizzing tale of an underexplored period ... [These female performers] changed the terms of Egyptian popular culture and blazed a path for women.'David Gardner, Financial Times; 'An utterly unique book, teeming with vividly recounted stories, at times hilarious and at times tragic. These were true feminists avant la lettre who defied the societal norms and authorities of their time, both in Egypt and abroad. This inspiring gem of a book gripped me from beginning to end.' Hanan al-Shaykh, author of Women of Sand and Myrrh; 'Important, insightful and fascinating ... Cormack highlights an important period in Egypt's modern history - almost unknown in the West - when its cosmopolitan culture was characterized by a tolerance of all races and religions ... This is a must-read.' Alaa Al Aswany, author of The Yacoubian Building; 'A book full of surprises. A lively story of women shaping gender, class, money and national liberation issues from the music halls and cabarets of early twentieth-century Cairo.' Ahdaf Soueif, author of Cairo: Memoir of a City Transformed; 'An unexpected story of powerful women and their no less powerful voices ... Beguiling and original.' Marina Warner, author of Forms of Enchantment; 'Packed with pizzazz and fizzing with naughtiness ... a thrilling reminder of the richness and wonder of Egyptian culture in the roaring twenties.' Justin Marozzi, author of Baghdad: City of Peace, City of Blood;
£9.89
The Crowood Press Ltd Essential Guide to Irish Dance
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£18.00
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc DancePunk
Book SynopsisBeginning in the late 1970s as an offshoot of disco and punk, dance-punk is difficult to define. Also sometimes referred to as disco-punk and funk-punk, it skirts, overlaps, and blurs into other genres including post-punk, post-disco, new wave, mutant disco, and synthpop. This book explores the historical and cultural conditions of the genre as it appeared in the late 1970s and early 1980s and then again in the early 2000s, and illuminates what is at stake in delineating dance-punk as a genre. Looking at bands such as Gang of Four, ESG, Public Image Ltd., LCD Soundsystem, The Rapture, and Le Tigre, this book examines the tensions between and blurring of the rhetoric and emotion in dance music and the cynical and ironic intellectualizing associated with post-punk.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Genealogies and Constellations 1. Death Disco to Disco Infiltrator: Spaces and Times of Dance-Punk 2. Dry Drums and Angular Guitars: Dance-Punk as Genre 3. Us v. Them: Dance-Punk and the “Other” Conclusion: Losing Its Edge: Whither Dance-Punk 10 Essential Tracks
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Human Kinetics Publishers Elementary Dance Education: Nature-Themed
Book SynopsisChildren love to observe, explore, learn, and create.Elementary Dance Education helps them do all four. And it does so in a unique way, shaping its movement activities around nature themes. In fact, all of the learning experiences are based on different aspects of nature, as the text intertwines children’s innate curiosity and observation skills with the processes of scientific inquiry and artistic creation.Elementary Dance Education helps teachers develop the instructional skills they need to incorporate dance into their curricula, providing over 70 movement activities and exercises for students in grades K-6. The activities, which stimulate children’s minds and bodies through the process of collaborative dance creation, include variations for younger and older students. Ideas are offered for partner or small-group explorations, making the activities more inclusive and appropriate for each age group.Another unique feature of this book is the original music accompanying it. Teachers have access to 90 minutes of dynamic sounds, rhythmic percussion, captivating electro-acoustic compositions, and gentle atmospheric selections, delivered through HKPropel, to accompany the learning experiences. The compositions support students’ movement explorations, conveying a range of images and emotions and inspiring a variety of responses.In addition, Elementary Dance Education offers the following: Discussion questions for each exercise, prompting in-class discussion and student exploration; the questions come with sample answers or ideas to encourage student responses and spur a fruitful discussion 75 photos and several diagrams to illustrate positions and poses and stimulate ideas for the movement exercises Journal prompts, tailored for older and younger children, to give students the opportunity to respond and reflect on the learning experiences Video links (provided in HKPropel) to help illustrate concepts and exercises, offer examples, or encourage students to watch for something specific in an activity The book’s first chapter introduces the basic elements of dance; the remaining seven chapters offer movement exercises in various areas of nature: plants, animals, water, earth, sky, people, and other wonders.This book is a rich and easy-to-implement resource not only for elementary dance educators and physical educators but for classroom teachers as well. The exercises in this book use a template for movement discovery in which students will observe, explore, create, and share. This template “can be applied to all areas of the curriculum,” says author Janice Pomer. “It’s an invaluable tool for student engagement, satisfying children’s capacity to watch, wonder, move, interact, discover, and share.”Elementary Dance Education will promote children’s creativity and curiosity, engage and challenge their minds and bodies, and help them learn to appreciate and support each other as they work together exploring, creating, and sharing their ideas and insights about the natural world through dance.Note: A code for accessing HKPropel is included with all new print books.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Basic Elements of DanceThe first chapter contains five foundation exercises that have a series of pedagogic variations to deepen students’ understanding of the basic elements of dance. Because many of you are working with novice movers, it’s important that you introduce these exercises to your students before moving on to the other exercises in this book. The sixth exercise, Collective Observation, reinforces the importance of discussion and shared observations introduced in the five fundamental exercises. This exercise expands students’ observation skills and strengthens trust between fellow students. The process will support students throughout their artistic journey and can be applied to subjects across the curriculum. 1.1 Exploring Shapes1.2 Exploring Motion1.3 Exploring Time1.4 Exploring Space1.5 Exploring Energy1.6 Collective ObservationChapter 2. PlantsThe second chapter explores a variety of growing things that have, or will have, roots. Differing shapes, textures, and environments played a part in the selection of this grouping. On-the-spot movement dynamics will be the common denominator for much of the choreography. Each plant (or seed) has unique characteristics that can inspire dynamic movement phrases and choreography. 2.1 Trees2.2 Flowers2.3 Vines2.4 Tall Grasses2.5 The Three SistersChapter 3. AnimalsEach animal-inspired exercise begins with a simple 16-beat foundation dance based on actions associated with an animal in a specific animal grouping. The foundation dance is used to explore some of the animals’ behavioral traits. Students are then encouraged to create their own dances inspired by other animals within the specific group. For example, the exercise Horns, Antlers, Hooves, and Herds presents a foundation dance inspired by caribou migration and later invites students to create dances inspired by buffalo and musk ox as well as gazelles and antelope. 3.1 Birds of a Feather3.2 Wildcats3.3 Horns, Antlers, Hooves, and Herds3.4 Reptiles With Scales and Shells3.5 Spiders and Insects3.6 Rodents3.7 Animal Anthology (Kindergarten Through Grade 3)3.8 Endangered Species (Grades 4 Through 6)Chapter 4. WaterWe are all bodies of water. When we are born, our bodies contain 75 percent water, which is almost the same percentage of water that covers the earth. Water is in the ground, in the air, and in the food we eat. The movement exercises in this chapter examine some of the many ways water moves and influences us: its cycles and currents and its life-giving and destructive forces. Each of the exercises in this chapter can be extended into in-depth choreographic pieces for novice and experienced movers. 4.1 Water Words4.2 Waves4.3 Frost and Snow4.4 Rain4.5 Water Cycle4.6 Drought4.7 Water Pollution (Grades 4 Through 6)4.8 Wetland HabitatsChapter 5. EarthThe exercises in this chapter are based on surface textures and shapes, and underground earth forces that can be felt and seen. These movement explorations will draw students’ attention to the ways our planet supports us, the way they travel upon it, and the internal pressures that continue to reshape it. 5.1 Earth Words5.2 Terrains5.3 Rocks and Sand5.4 Tectonic Plates5.5 Volcanoes5.6 Mapping the LandChapter 6. SkyHuman beings have been studying the sky since the dawn of mankind; winds and weather impact our daily lives, and the stars and night skies continue to inspire us to dream of other worlds. In this chapter, students will look to the skies from multiple perspectives: personal observations, scientific knowledge, and traditional folktales or origin stories created to explain eclipses and the distant planets. 6.1 Clouds6.2 Thunder and Lightning6.3 Painting the Sky6.4 Sun and Moon6.5 Eclipses6.6 Gravitational Forces6.7 The PlanetsChapter 7. PeopleHumans are mammals, and like mammals and other living things, humans travel, have families, build communities, and communicate. In this chapter, students will revisit some of the previous exercises and examine how they relate to humans, specifically how the actions of their families, friends, and communities are closely linked to the patterns that govern plants, animals, water, earth, and sky. Unlike previous exercises, in this chapter, there is minimal instruction to guide you. The first two exercises provide direction, but after that you and your class decide how to explore, structure, and create the dances. People and Plants7.1 Revisiting Maple Keys7.2 Revisiting the Three SistersPeople and Animals7.3 Revisiting Teamwork7.4 Revisiting Herd MigrationsPeople and Water7.5 Revisiting Snow7.6 Revisiting the Water Cycle, Drought, and FloodsPeople and Earth7.7 Revisiting Tectonic Plates7.8 Revisiting VolcanoesPeople and Sky7.9 Revisiting the Moon7.10 Revisiting Our PlanetChapter 8. Other WondersThe world is filled with wonders. The final chapter contains a list of fascinating natural wonders to explore. PlantsCacti and the Desert Environment, Carnivorous Plants, Ferns, Mushrooms and FungiAnimalsFlightless Birds; The Platypus, Jellyfish, and Other Unique Animals; Animal Metamorphosis; Animal ArchitectsWaterTsunamis, Subterranean Rivers, Hurricanes and Typhoons, IcebergsEarthThe Carbon Cycle, Earth’s Core, Gemstones, Fossil Sites and Tar PitsSkyComets, Constellations, Supernovas, Our Galaxy
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Duckworth Books Sinners of Starlight City
Book SynopsisA sumptuous, page-turning historical novel of revenge and redemption set against the backdrop of civil injustice and the rise of Fascism.Trade Review‘A lush and beautifully rendered novel that will keep you turning pages long into the night. Mystery, intrigue, secrets and a vendetta fuel this story, which is ultimately about the meaning of family and the power of love. Brava!’ Adriana Trigiani, New York Times-bestselling author of The Good Left Undone‘This novel whisked me away to 1930s Chicago and all the wonders of the World’s Fair. Family secrets, revenge and women who refuse to do what they're told – an ideal combination. I loved it’ Louise Hare, author of This Lovely City and Miss Aldridge Regrets‘Expansive and emotive, I couldn't put this book down. Amid the intrigue, revenge, and redemption set against the backdrop of the Chicago World's Fair, Anika Scott still manages to make Sinners of Starlight City a deeply intimate story about family with characters that jump off the page. Another notch in Scott's literary belt!’ Catherine Adel West, author of The Two Lives of Sara and Saving Ruby King'Full of Italian mobsters and family strife, this tale of historical fiction and drama will transport readers to the fantasy and glory that was the 1933 World’s Fair’ Booklist
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SteinerBooks, Inc Eurythmy Forms for Tone Eurythmy
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£31.50
Intellect Books Somatic Movement Dance Therapy: The Healing Art
Book SynopsisThis book focuses on Somatic Movement Dance Therapy and the importance of self-regulation and co-regulation. The chapters attend to self-regulating different tissues through movement, breath, sound and the imagination. Throughout the book the author shares processes and practices that support participants to balance their living tissues, moving from sympathetic arousal into parasympathetic ease and release. The study of the autonomic nervous system and how to innervate the parasympathetic through breath awareness, heart-sensing and intero-ception is the central through-line in the book. Uniquely, Williamson attends to the anatomical and physiological complexity underlying the apparent simplicity of somatic movement dance practice. How to sense-perceive and move with attuned awareness of specific body tissues, such the skeletal-muscular and craniosacral system invites the reader into a deep anatomical and physiological excavation of self-regulation. The interconnectivity of fascia, and the importance of cardio-ception, breath awareness and gravity lie at the heart of this book. Sensory-perceptual awareness of the heart is foregrounded as the most important ingredient in the efficacy of practice, as well as gravi-ception, soft-tissue-rolling and fascial unwinding. Includes a collective foreword from Sarah Whatley, Daniel Deslauriers, Celeste Snowber and Karin Rugman This is a must-read practice-as-research book, for under- and postgraduate students, researchers and educators and especially important for practitioners who feel the weight and condescension of the mechanistic paradigm.Trade ReviewDr. Amanda Williamson is a master teacher and opens up a deeply pedagogical space for understanding on multiple levels, with the sensitivity of an open heart and a poetic eye. This book will be a companion for me and for chiropractors, dancers, somatic therapists, doctors, philosophers, educators, body workers, musicians, therapists and all those who want to nurture the body, mind and soul will find this a magnificent resource. -- Professor Celeste Snowber * Simon Fraser University, Canada *An exceptional artist and compassionate teacher, Amanda Williamson brings a rigorously researched knowledge of the body to this book. The wisdom she has gained through her many years of practice infuses her writing: she shares her insights with generosity and sensitivity. It will be a primary source for all those interested in how to tune the body’s sensory-perceptual pathways to support a profoundly holistic approach to health and well-being. -- Professor Sarah Whatley * Chair in Dance and Director: Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE) *'Amanda Williamson’s Somatic Movement Dance Therapy: The Healing Art of Self-regulation and Co-regulation is an informative text that illuminates the author’s practice and key influences that inform it. She brings her years of experience to create her work—somatic movement dance therapy—based on improvisation, self-regulation, and co-regulation. This book will be of relevance for anyone interested in a therapeutic application of somatic movement and dance, as well as those interested in deepening their understanding of their body through movement, anatomy, physiology, and a non-western lens that moves away from the “[reduction of] mental health to mechanistic approaches” (186). This text is a welcome addition to courses in somatics—a clear example of a therapeutic practice inviting discourse on the application of somatic practices with strong connections to research in science, psychology, and the mind-body-psyche relationship.' -- Hetty King, Journal of Dance EducationTable of ContentsForeword: Transatlantic Reflections Sarah Whatley, Daniel Deslauriers, Celeste Snowber and Karin Rugman Introduction: The Seabed, Waves and Ripples in this Book Autogenic Self-Regulatory Movement Sympathetic Holding and Parasympathetic Release: Vagal Tone and Social Engagement Fulcrums of Support and Soft Tissue Reorganization Co-regulation, Cardio-ception and the Transpersonal Witness Co-regulatory Touch and Somatic Unwinding Sense-Perceiving the Craniosacral System Soft-Tissue-Rolling and Fascial Health Bibliography
£85.46
Hyperion Directing at Disney
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£38.39
Human Kinetics Publishers Dance Anatomy and Kinesiology
Book SynopsisKaren Clippinger’s first two editions of Dance Anatomy and Kinesiology were hailed as the standard in the field. This third edition builds on that success by retaining its scientific perspective while making the material even more accessible to students and teachers and by bringing in a significant amount of new material.What’s New? In an effort to further enhance learning, Dance Anatomy and Kinesiology offers a wealth of new material and tools to make this edition the best yet: Nearly 300 anatomical illustrations—now in full color to clearly show muscle movements and technique considerations, setting the book apart from others in its field A new introductory chapter to cover basic terminology all in one place A new recurring Understanding Check element that helps students demonstrate their grasp of the material before moving on An updated suite of online instructor and student ancillaries to support the text New interactive lab activities delivered online through HKPropel More diverse dance styles addressed throughout the book and represented in photographs The instructor guide features a sample syllabus and course outline, chapter outlines, lab assignments, and sample tests. A presentation package provides expanded chapter slides with more in-depth texts and additional graphics, now in color, that reinforce each chapter’s key points. Through HKPropel, students have access to interactive Understanding Check activities, flash cards, practice quizzes, and 19 video clips that demonstrate technique and offer correction guidance. The final chapter is revised to provide a summary and applications, including more practical content in the form of summary figures or tables for bones, joints, muscle actions, and alignment evaluation, as well as sample mat exercises for dance conditioning. And throughout the book, Clippinger has updated content to simplify, add more practical material, and share best practices for injury prevention and rehabilitation.Primary Focus While much is new in this third edition, the book retains its emphasis on presenting the anatomical and kinesiological material that is essential for dancers to understand. The text includes descriptions of joint structure, key muscles, movement analysis, sample strength and flexibility exercises, common alignment problems, select joint mechanics, and special considerations for dance for each region of the body. The new edition still features the Concept Demonstration and Dance Cues special elements. The former provides movement experiences for dancers to better understand potentially difficult concepts, while the latter helps the dancer reflect on the anatomical basis of commonly used cues used in teaching dance technique.Empowers Instructors and Dancers This new edition of Dance Anatomy and Kinesiology will give teachers a clearer picture of the anatomical and kinesiological factors that aid in generating technique cues and identifying technique problems, and it will help them become more effective and empower dancers to realize their potential and artistic vision. Note: A code for accessing HKPropel is included with this ebook.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Fundamental Anatomical Terms for Understanding Movement Positional and Directional Terms Rotary Motion, Anatomical Planes, and Axes Joint Movement Terms SummaryChapter 2. The Skeletal System and Its Movements Bone Composition and Structure The Human Skeleton Classification and Structure of Joints Joint Mechanics in Functional Movement SummaryChapter 3. The Muscular System and Its Movements Skeletal Muscle Properties Microscopic Structure of a Muscle Fiber and Muscle Contraction Muscle Architecture Muscle Attachments to Bone Contribution of Connective Tissue to Muscle Behavior Muscles, Levers, and Rotary Motion Types of Muscle Contraction and Torque Muscular Considerations in Functional Movement Muscles and Movement Analysis SummaryChapter 4. The Spine Bones and Bony Landmarks of the Spine Joint Structure and Movements of the Vertebral Column Description and Functions of Individual Muscles of the Spine Muscular Analysis of Spinal Movements Ideal Spinal Alignment and Common Deviations Spinal Mechanics Special Considerations for the Spine in Dance Spine Injuries in Dancers SummaryChapter 5. The Pelvic Girdle and Hip Joint Bones and Bony Landmarks of the Hip Region Joint Structure and Movements of the Pelvic Girdle Joint Structure and Movements of the Hip Description and Functions of Individual Hip Muscles Muscular Analysis of Hip Movements Alignment and Common Deviations of the Hip Region Pelvic and Hip Mechanics Special Considerations for the Hip Region in Dance Hip Injuries in Dancers SummaryChapter 6. The Knee and Patellofemoral Joints Bones and Bony Landmarks of the Knee Region Joint Structure and Movements of the Knee Description and Functions of Individual Knee Muscles Muscular Analysis of Knee Movements Alignment and Common Deviations of the Knee Knee Mechanics Structure and Movements of the Patellofemoral Joint Patellofemoral Alignment and the Q Angle Patellofemoral Mechanics and Compression Forces Special Considerations for the Knee Region in Dance Knee Injuries in Dancers SummaryChapter 7. The Ankle and Foot Bones and Bony Landmarks of the Ankle and Foot Joint Structure and Movements of the Ankle and Foot Description and Functions of Individual Ankle–Foot Muscles Muscular Analysis of Ankle–Foot Movements Alignment and Common Deviations of the Ankle–Foot Ankle–Foot Mechanics Special Considerations for the Ankle and Foot in Dance Ankle and Foot Injuries in Dancers SummaryChapter 8. The Upper Extremity Bones and Bony Landmarks of the Shoulder Complex Joint Structure and Movements of the Shoulder Girdle Joint Structure and Movements of the Shoulder Description and Functions of Individual Muscles of the Shoulder Complex Muscular Analysis of Movements of the Shoulder Complex Alignment and Common Deviations of the Shoulder Complex Mechanics of the Shoulder Complex Bones, Joint Structure, and Movements of the Elbow Joint Description and Functions of Selected Individual Elbow Muscles Muscular Analysis of Elbow Movements Alignment and Common Deviations of the Elbow Bones, Joint Structure, Movements, and Muscles of Selected Other Upper Extremity Joints Special Considerations for the Upper Extremity in Dance Upper Extremity Injuries in Dancers SummaryChapter 9. Summary and Applications Structure, Alignment, and Mechanics of Key Joints Key Muscles and Their Movements Sample Conditioning Exercises Observation and Corrective Measures for Key Alignment and Technique Problems Anatomical Movement Analysis Schema for Whole-Body Movements Sample Anatomical Movement Analysis with Research Supplements Dance Movement Cues Summary
£96.30
University of Minnesota Press Eco Soma: Pain and Joy in Speculative Performance
Book SynopsisModeling a disability culture perspective on performance practice toward socially just futures In Eco Soma, Petra Kuppers asks readers to be alert to their own embodied responses to art practice and to pay attention to themselves as active participants in a shared sociocultural world. Reading contemporary performance encounters and artful engagements, this book models a disability culture sensitivity to living in a shared world, oriented toward more socially just futures.Eco soma methods mix and merge realities on the edges of lived experience and site-specific performance. Kuppers invites us to become moths, sprout gills, listen to our heart’s drum, and take starships into crip time. And fantasy is central to these engagements: feeling/sensing monsters, catastrophes, golden lines, heartbeats, injured sharks, dotted salamanders, kissing mammoths, and more. Kuppers illuminates ecopoetic disability culture perspectives, contending that disabled people and their co-conspirators make art to live in a changing world, in contact with feminist, queer, trans, racialized, and Indigenous art projects. By offering new ways to think, frame, and feel “environments,” Kuppers focuses on art-based methods of envisioning change and argues that disability can offer imaginative ways toward living well and with agency in change, unrest, and challenge.Traditional somatics teach us how to fine-tune our introspective senses and to open up the world of our own bodies, while eco soma methods extend that attention toward the creative possibilities of the reach between self, others, and the land. Eco Soma proposes an art/life method of sensory tuning to the inside and the outside simultaneously, a method that allows for a wider opening toward ethical cohabitation with human and more-than-human others.Trade Review "Petra Kuppers breathes us through connections between embodiment and the earth, weaving queer studies and disability studies into self-guided explorations. Her imagistic text evokes dancing—the pull of gravity and the shifting perspectives of bodies in flow. She moves, she writes, we respond to her autobiographical narratives of environmental spaces and social places."—Anita Gonzalez, Georgetown University (cofounder of Georgetown University’s Racial Justice Institute) "There is absolutely nothing like Eco Soma in any field. Petra Kuppers provides a much-needed model for what interdisciplinary arts-based research can be, and her work is always put into the context of the lived reality of minoritized communities. She shows us how to write about bodies as she does—unflinchingly, while maintaining respect and dignity."—Carrie Sandahl, director, Program on Disability Art, Culture, and Humanities, University of Illinois at Chicago "Petra Kuppers’s grounded and reflective investigation encourages generative dialogue within and beyond disability performance studies. Sharing many vivid examples drawn from diverse community scales and sites, her eco soma method both illuminates and prompts creative reimaginings of relations between self, land, other humans, and more-than-humans. Answering the urgent call for multidisciplinary work to address climate catastrophe, she reveals the profound power of art-based methods to engage the body, forge connection, and enact change."—Kirsty Johnston, University of British Columbia (located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Musqueam (xʷməθkʷəy̓əm) people) "Kuppers's spectral disability approach makes this book an ideal companion for revising older canons and theories, through embodied encounters with activist community performance... The labour of reading this layered and performative text generates new research trajectories through realms of sense, affect, and relation."—Research in Drama Education "Kuppers animates the concepts of disability culture with unexplored ways of witnessing performances through uncertain being and identifying. The fundamental questions Kuppers gently invites the readers to explore about their own encounters and identifications with the human, nonhuman and fantastic worlds are especially important for a world grappling with the continued realities of a global pandemic, of reassessing one’s place and purpose, privileges and uncertainties."—Synapsis "Engaging with the intersection of the self and the environment in the wide array of well-chosen performances it analyses, Petra Kuppers’s Eco Soma substantially invites a rethinking of material enmeshments embodied in the self that is marked by various agencies—be they geographical, historical, or cultural."—Ecocene "Relevant and grounding."—Wordgathering "The text models a form of inquiry, inviting the reader to take a journey through the author’s collection of embodied performance witnessing and become aware of how one encounters the world through the discovery of involved witnessing."—Synapsis Journal "Eco Soma reads like a historical recipe for imagined futures, one that invites you to add a pinch of your favorite spice to make it smell of home and taste like possibility."—Research in Arts and Education "Kuppers’s book puts forward appropriate ways for diverse bodyminds to access the spaciousness as well as the peacefulness of being with nature, subsequently offering revolutionary ways of thinking about complex embodiment and issues of belonging and accessibility in cultural work."—Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies "Petra Kuppers moves in a refreshing worldscape of academic writing. In the introduction to Eco Soma, I am invited into her private space, her own study, her nest on the ground. From here, she takes me by the hand and guides me through stories and reflections from her personal and artistic life and practice as an academic, mover, facilitator and performance witness."—Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices Table of ContentsContentsPreface: From Ecosomatics to Eco Soma1. Social Somatics: Tentacular Methods on the Horizon2. Edges of Water and Land: Indigenous/Settler Eco Soma Collaborations3. Un/Bounding: Writing Water Worlds4. Crip Time, Rhythms, and Slow Rays: Speculative EmbodimentCoda: OraclesAcknowledgmentsBibliographyIndex
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Intellect Books The Impact of Touch in Dance Movement
Book SynopsisThis book explores the therapeutic use of touch, focusing on an in-depth case study of work in an NHS setting with a client with learning disabilities, and situating this within a wide theoretical context. This is a unique and influential study illustrating the impact of touch in dance movement psychotherapy and laying the ground for a theory on the use of touch in Dance Movement Psychotherapy (DMP). The case study illustrates the impact of touch upon the therapeutic relationship with the use of video transcription and descriptive reflexive accounts of the session content. The case analysis sections establish the ground for a paradigm shift, and for emergent theory and methods in support of the use of touch in Dance Movement Psychotherapy and other contexts. The role touch takes is beyond its affect, which expands our understanding of its potency as an intervention. The writing is embedded in many years of practice-led-research in the field of dance and somatic practices, in particular Body-Mind Centering® and Contact Improvisation, in which touching and being touched is met with curiosity as a place of insight and revelation, beyond the bounds of taboo and social diktat. The study considers the philosophical landscape of both touch and non-touch. This book explores and reflects upon the use of touch, considering the wider context and socially imposed perceptions that would prevent touch from taking place – including philosophical and social discourses. Through telling the story of a client case, the book offers a wealth of thought-provoking content to inspire continued dialogue. Key strengths of this book are the depth, warmth and perceptiveness of the case history, and the way in which this is successfully linked with theory. Particular attention is paid to embodied cognition and exosystemic theory, the two leading developments of current thinking. With the ethical, practical and philosophical content, the book will be of interest to psychotherapists, health and social care practitioners, as well as arts in health practitioners and beneficiaries in educational programs and settings. Primary readership will be among DMP psychotherapists, body psychotherapists, drama therapists, Body Mind Centering® practitioners, arts in health practitioners, people working with clients with learning disabilities and any practitioner and researcher interested in understanding the role touch may play in the psychotherapeutic encounter.Table of ContentsList of figures Preface and chapter summary Acknowledgements Abbreviations Chapter 1. Introduction 1.1 Background: Touch a natural language 1.2 A 'touch revolution' in a dance–sport called contact improvisation 1.3 The sensory and sexual differentiation of touch, co-operation and responsibility 1.4 Touch - a way of 'seeing' or a mutual place of being? 1.5 The psychotherapist becomes researcher Chapter 2. The personal and professional quests 2.1 The sensory acuity of touch – contemplating a pathway of change 2.2 Literature on touch; the absent body - the 'touch or no-touch' debate 2.3 The pro-touch discourse explored and explained 2.4 Relational aspects; the subjectivities of 'touching subject' - 'touched object' 2.5 Theories of consciousness 2.6 The matter of the psyche; or what matter is the psyche? Summary Chapter 3. The research design – defining roles 3.1. A qualitative framework and mixed method approach 3.2. Defining the selves: The multiple subjectivities 3.3. Data analysis – methods and implementation Chapter 4. Embodied Ethics 4.1. Earning legitimacy and ethical approval 4.2. Towards an embodied ethics; a phenomenological insight 4.3. The Research Governance Framework, an intransigent construct 4.4. The ethical demise of embodied ethics 4.5. The Integrated Research Application System (IRAS) Chapter 5. CASE STUDY SESSION 1: Transcript and data analysis 'You child angry heart?' Amanda as participant; managing autonomy. Chapter 6. CASE STUDY SESSION 4: Transcript and data analysis Establishing a mutual language; beyond good and bad touch Towards introspection, an intrapersonal and transpersonal approach Tying in the thread of integrative approaches to Dance Movement Psychotherapy Chapter 7. CASE STUDY SESSION 6: Transcript and data analysis Chapter 8. FINDING AN ENDING AND EMERGENT THEORY Chapter 9. TOWARDS A THEORY OF RECEPTIVITY; Touching once again upon touch Arriving at receptivity – an 'ethic of care' (Etherington 2007: 604). The pre-ontological space and time domain of the body Appendix 1. Embodied Ethics continued Part 1. The co-researcher role and the ethics of inclusive research-seduction or sensitivity, occlusion or collusion; a question of 'capacity'? Part 2. Ethical issues in mixed methodological research Part 3. Hope at Hand – the ethics of research and the ethics of treatment Summary Appendix 2. For Chapter 5, diagrams 1-4 and 5. (i) and (ii) Appendix 3. For Chapter 6. Prehension theory diagram, Appendix 4. For Chapter 8. Client competence, session 1 and 10 Appendix 5. Martz and Lindy, The trauma Membrane Concept (2010) Appendix 6. Perceptual-Response Cycle
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Hal Leonard Corporation Flamenco
Book SynopsisWritten by a group of dedicated flamenco enthusiasts this book traces the history and development of flamenco the stirring form of folk dance created by the gypsies of the Andalusian region of Spain in the 19th century and still popular today.
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Anteism Books In Past Pupils And Smiles
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HarperCollins Publishers Tiny Dancer Big World
Book SynopsisChange your life for the better, starting today, with this primer on positivity from Strictly star and It Takes Two host, Janette Manrara.Whether you're looking to boost your happiness, advance your career or manifest your big life goals, Janette's delightful blend of advice, inspiration and life lessons from her time on stage and screen is just what you need.Divided into four key pillars: Acceptance, Reflection, The Work and Discovery, her tried-and-true life advice centres around learning to love yourself. Each chapter offers hard-won wisdom alongside practical techniques to apply that wisdom to your own life, complete with all the steps to take to make your goals a reality. Janette is here to motivate you, empower you, spark joy and remind you that you are amazing.Along the way, Janette shares her own poignant stories, from her childhood in a large Cuban family in Florida and her decision to pursue a career in dance to her big break on So You Think You Can Dance and finally, Strictl
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Cash
Book SynopsisHe was the Man in Black, a country music legend, and the quintessential American troubadour. He was an icon of rugged individualism who had been to hell and back, telling the tale as never before. In his unforgettable autobiography, Johnny Cash tells the truth about the highs and lows, the struggles and hard-won triumphs, and the people who shaped him.In his own words, Cash set the record straight -- and dispelled a few myths -- as he looked unsparingly at his remarkable life: from the joys of his boyhood in Dyess, Arkansas to superstardom in Nashville, Tennessee, the road of Cash''s life has been anything but smooth. Cash writes of the thrill of playing with Elvis, the comfort of praying with Billy Graham; of his battles with addiction and of the devotion of his wife, June; of his gratitude for life, and of his thoughts on what the afterlife may bring. Here, too, are the friends of a lifetime, including Willie Nelson, Roy Orbison, Bob Dylan, and Kris Kristofferson. As powerf
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