Ballet Beyond Tradition

ISBN-13: 9780415970181 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 200 str.

Anna Paskevska; Paskevska Paskevska; John Drinkwater

Opis

Anna Paskevska offers new ways to understand the ballet vocabulary in terms of the most recent understanding of the body and how it moves.

Spis treści

Table of Contents Acknowledgements Potential and Kinetic Energy Fall Weight Recovery and Rebound Suspension Isolation The Practice Laying the Foundation Exercises at the Barre The Class Conclusion Glossary Bibliography

O autorze

Anna Paskevska is the author of one of the best-regarded books on kinesiology and dance, Both Sides of the Mirror, first published in 1982, and issued in a 2nd edition in 1992. She also is the author of Ballet: From the First Plié to Mastery, a syllabus for ballet teaching (Routledge, 2002). She is past Chair of the Dance Department at the Chicago Academy of Arts.