Louis / Nikolais The Nikolais/Louis Dance Technique

A Philosophy and Method of Modern Dance
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-134-95580-0
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Louis, Murray

Nikolais, Alwin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Rock & Pop, Blues, Soul

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Section I Definitions
1 Introduction
2 Basic Dance

3 Vision of a New Technique

4 Decentralization

5 Grain

6 Density

7 Gravity and Verticality

8 The Psyche

9 Stasis

10 Dynamics and Energies
11 Sensory Perception

12 Movement Range

13 Three Conditions of Energy

Section II Creating: Improvisation and Composition
14 Defining Improvisation

15 Gestalt

16 Nature and Art

17 The Language of Criticism

18 Composition

Section III The Class Manual
Introduction to the Classes

The Body as An Instrument

The Dimensional Concept

Alignment

The Stretches

Up and Down - Vertical - The Plié

Across the Floor

Week 1 - Locomotion and Dimensions

Week 2 - Isolating Body Parts (Isolations)

Week 3 - Body Parts (Continued)

Week 4 - Levels

Week 5 - The Joints and Joint Action

Week 6 - Rotary Action

Week 7 - Grain and Density

Week 8 - Gravity and Upward Willpower

Week 9 - Swing, Centripetal and Centrifugal Momentum

Week 10 - Undercurves

Week 11 - Overcurves and The Mirror

Major Principles of Dance (The Big Four)

Week 12 - Space - Volume and Peripheral

Week 13 - Time

Week 14 - Shape

Week 15 - Motion and Gestalt
Week 16 - Abstraction

Week 17 - Review Technique

Week 18 - Realism to Abstraction

Week 19 - Diagonals

Week 20 - Circles

Week 21 - Falls

Week 22 - Suspension Points

Week 23 - Percussion and Extension

Week 24 - Lyricism
Adjuncts to Choreographic and Performing Skill

Week 25 - The Showing: Performance: Emotion
Consonance and a Summation

A Brief Review

Post Script

Biography Nikolais
Biography Louis
About the DVD

Über Autor(innen)

Alwin Nikolais and Murray Louis were collaborators for over forty years who transformed the world's understanding of dance theater. Nikolais, awarded a Kennedy Center National Medal of Honor in 1987, died in 1993. Louis wrote two previous books on dance as well as a monthly column for Dance Magazine. He has lectured and toured throughout the world, produced a series of dance videos, and continues to serve as artistic director of the Nikolais and Murray Louis Dance Company. He lives in New York City.