Choreography and the specific image : nineteen essays and a workbook / Daniel Nagrin.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©2001.Description: xi, 274 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0822941473 (alk. paper)
  • 0822957507
  • 9780822941477 (alk. paper)
  • 9780822957508
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 21 792.82 NAG
Contents:
THE ESSAYS : 1. Helen Tamiris and Her Teaching of Choreography -- 2. A Method of Teaching Choreography -- 3. Choreography and the Specific Image -- 4. Improvisation as a Tool for Choreography -- 5. "Rules" for Choreography in No Particular Order -- 6. The Play of Metaphor -- 7. Modern Dance Choreography - Ballet Choreography -- 8. Choreography for the Solo Dancer, Choreography for a Group: The Problems and Differences -- 9. Abstract Dance versus What? -- 10. Music -- 11. Words and Song Lyrics -- 12. Virtuosity -- 13. Direction -- 14. The Stage: The Costumes, The Lights, The Sets, The Sound -- 15. Choreography for the Theatre, Musical Comedy and Opera -- 16. Mindsets -- 17. The Criticism of Choreography -- 18. Anecdotal Material -- 19. The Ethics of Aesthetics -- THE WORKBOOK - Workbook Introduction and Outline : 1. Warming Up / Gifts ; Medicine Ball ; Outrageous Travel ; Goldfish Bowl ; Blind Journey -- 2. The Rhythm Series / Breath Rhythm ; Pulse Rhythm ; Inner Rhythm ; Dedicate Your Motion ; Go Visiting ; True Repetition ; Evolving Repetition ; Spinning -- 3. Uncovering Sources of Movement: The First Steps / Circles; Each Alone ; Backdoor ; Hub Meditation ; Visualization ; Gesture Permutations ; Gesture Rondo -- 4. Metaphor -- 5. Sense Memory Sources / Faces ; The Obstacle ; Passing through a Physical Object ; Slalom -- 6. Sources of Movement Material / The Mind-Wash ; Not Naming ;The Other ; A Duet ; The Duet as a Structure -- 7. Finding Gold in "Bad" Habits / Cliche Rondo; Your Familiar ; Possessed by a Mannerism -- 8. Music Sources of Movement / Ambient Sound ; Rhythm Circle ; Before, After and On ; Who or What Is Alive in the Music? ; Riff Cactus ; Using Music for Improvisation -- 9. Words and Movement / Words (Creating Words ; Being Created by Words ; Becoming Words) ; Prison ; Poems -- 10. More / Why Do You Dance? ; Props Fantasy ; Inside the Outside ; Body Contact ; Seeing through the Eyes of Another ; I Dare You.
Summary: "Dubbed "the great loner of American dance" by Dance Magazine, Daniel Nagrin has worked with Martha Graham, Helen Tamiris, Mme. Anderson-Ivantzova, and Anna Sokolow. He has danced on Broadway, in film and television, and has toured nationally and internationally as a solo concert artist." "As Nagrin observes, "The world outside has burst into the studio." Many dancers today want to confront the concrete subjects of their lives, but their formalistic training has left them ill-prepared to approach choreography through content rather than structure. During his long and distinguished career, when many dancers were working with movement as abstraction, Nagrin turned instead toward movement as metaphor, in the belief that dance should be about something." "Spiced with wit and strong opinions, Choreography and the Specific Image is part history, part philosophy, part nuts-and-bolts manual. It is the third book -- with Dance and the Specific Image: Improvisation, and The Six Questions: Acting Technique for Dance Performance -- in a trilogy devoted to exploring the use of the specific image as a creative tool. Also included are three essays on choreographing for musical comedy, opera, and theatre by Susan Stroman, Elizabeth Keen, and Donya Feuer. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-270) and index.

THE ESSAYS : 1. Helen Tamiris and Her Teaching of Choreography -- 2. A Method of Teaching Choreography -- 3. Choreography and the Specific Image -- 4. Improvisation as a Tool for Choreography -- 5. "Rules" for Choreography in No Particular Order -- 6. The Play of Metaphor -- 7. Modern Dance Choreography - Ballet Choreography -- 8. Choreography for the Solo Dancer, Choreography for a Group: The Problems and Differences -- 9. Abstract Dance versus What? -- 10. Music -- 11. Words and Song Lyrics -- 12. Virtuosity -- 13. Direction -- 14. The Stage: The Costumes, The Lights, The Sets, The Sound -- 15. Choreography for the Theatre, Musical Comedy and Opera -- 16. Mindsets -- 17. The Criticism of Choreography -- 18. Anecdotal Material -- 19. The Ethics of Aesthetics -- THE WORKBOOK - Workbook Introduction and Outline : 1. Warming Up / Gifts ; Medicine Ball ; Outrageous Travel ; Goldfish Bowl ; Blind Journey -- 2. The Rhythm Series / Breath Rhythm ; Pulse Rhythm ; Inner Rhythm ; Dedicate Your Motion ; Go Visiting ; True Repetition ; Evolving Repetition ; Spinning -- 3. Uncovering Sources of Movement: The First Steps / Circles; Each Alone ; Backdoor ; Hub Meditation ; Visualization ; Gesture Permutations ; Gesture Rondo -- 4. Metaphor -- 5. Sense Memory Sources / Faces ; The Obstacle ; Passing through a Physical Object ; Slalom -- 6. Sources of Movement Material / The Mind-Wash ; Not Naming ;The Other ; A Duet ; The Duet as a Structure -- 7. Finding Gold in "Bad" Habits / Cliche Rondo; Your Familiar ; Possessed by a Mannerism -- 8. Music Sources of Movement / Ambient Sound ; Rhythm Circle ; Before, After and On ; Who or What Is Alive in the Music? ; Riff Cactus ; Using Music for Improvisation -- 9. Words and Movement / Words (Creating Words ; Being Created by Words ; Becoming Words) ; Prison ; Poems -- 10. More / Why Do You Dance? ; Props Fantasy ; Inside the Outside ; Body Contact ; Seeing through the Eyes of Another ; I Dare You.

"Dubbed "the great loner of American dance" by Dance Magazine, Daniel Nagrin has worked with Martha Graham, Helen Tamiris, Mme. Anderson-Ivantzova, and Anna Sokolow. He has danced on Broadway, in film and television, and has toured nationally and internationally as a solo concert artist." "As Nagrin observes, "The world outside has burst into the studio." Many dancers today want to confront the concrete subjects of their lives, but their formalistic training has left them ill-prepared to approach choreography through content rather than structure. During his long and distinguished career, when many dancers were working with movement as abstraction, Nagrin turned instead toward movement as metaphor, in the belief that dance should be about something." "Spiced with wit and strong opinions, Choreography and the Specific Image is part history, part philosophy, part nuts-and-bolts manual. It is the third book -- with Dance and the Specific Image: Improvisation, and The Six Questions: Acting Technique for Dance Performance -- in a trilogy devoted to exploring the use of the specific image as a creative tool. Also included are three essays on choreographing for musical comedy, opera, and theatre by Susan Stroman, Elizabeth Keen, and Donya Feuer. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET

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