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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Dance technique"”.
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Re-envisioning dance technique pedagogy
… practice-based research flows from the dance studio. It explores experiences of learning dance technique with groups of undergraduate and postgraduate students at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. The study is contextually located within the multifaceted discourses of …
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Following the natural pathway: Integrating Barbara Clark's somatic principles with modern dance technique
… somatic work and its relationship to modern dance technique. The overriding purpose of this heuristic-oriented study was to ascertain and to describe how the fields of somatics and modern dance technique might be pedagogically integrated. Clark, a protégé of Mabel Todd, firmly establishes her …
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Handle With Care: A Pedagogical Theory of Touch in Teaching Dance Technique Based on Four Case Studies
… how human touch may be used within a modern dance technique class to facilitate effective teaching and learning. This inquiry was based on two initial assumptions: (a) touch is an effective teaching and learning tool for modern dance, and (b) a modern dance technique class defines its own …
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Choreographic Research Combining Contact Improvisation and the Alexander Technique: Somatic, Practice-Based-Research, and Ethnographic Inquiry
… investigates how integrating the Alexander Technique (AT) and Contact Improvisation (CI) principles, combined with theoretical studies in PBR and ethnography expand psychophysical coordination for dancers, teachers, researchers and choreographers. I primarily ask: What theoretical and …
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In|And|Of|Through
… Center in partial fulfillment of an M.F.A. in Dance through the University of Maryland. <italic>In|And|Of|Through</italic> contemplates man's relationship to art and the embodiment of visual art through application of basic dance principles espoused by pioneering modern dancer Isadora Duncan to …
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Dancing Around Costuming: A Symbiotic Relationship of Disciplines, Costume Design for Dance 2011: Parallel and Intersect
… to design costumes for the School of Theatre and Dance's fall faculty dance concert, Dance 2011; Parallel and Intersection. The challenges presented by costuming the entire dance concert are: 1) To design 5 new pieces, with casts of 14, 12, 11, 7 & 2, the largest of which will become integrated …
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The effects of ballet training on isokinetic strength, power, and muscular endurance
An experimental group of nine dancers between the ages of 18 and 23 who were participating in dance technique classes were compared to a group of nine dancers who were participating in an eight week weight training program and technique class and a control group of sedentary females of the same …
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Knowing in the body: A dancer's emergent epistemology
… to explore how knowing in the body develops when dancers translate and integrate detail and sensory information about the structure and function of their bodies, both through movement exploration, and in their dancing. In this research I asked how the body both can be a site of knowledge and how …