Making Connections: Total Body Integration Through Bartenieff Fundamentals

ISBN-13: 9781138995512 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 272 str.

Peggy Hackney;?Abar;?Abar

Opis

Human movement influences an individual's perceptions and ability to interact with the world. Through exercises, illustrations, and detailed anatomical drawings, this remarkable book guides the reader toward total body integration. An experimental approach to movement fundamentals involving the patterning of connections in the body according to principles of efficient movement, the process of total body integration encourages personal expression and full psychological involvement.

Spis treści

1 Personal Memories of Irmgard Bartenieff 2 What Is Fundamental? 3 Why Return to Fundamental Patterns? -- 4 What Is Bartenieff Fundamentals? What Is Its Goal /Core? -- 5 What Are Principles of Bartenieff Fundamentals? -- 6 Breath 7 Core-Distal Connectivity 8 Head-Tail Connectivity -- 9 Upper-Lower Connectivity -- 10 Body-Half Connectivity 11 Cross-Lateral Connectivity -- 12 Integration -- Appendix A A Brief Overview of the Framework of Laban -- Movement Analysis -- Appendix B Concepts Used in Fundamentals References -- Index.

O autorze

PEGGY HACKNEY is internationally recognized for her work in Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis (LMA), and currently directs and teaches m the Integrated Movement Studies Bay Area Weekend Laban/Bartenieff Certificate Program, and teaches at the University of Utah. She is also Assistant Director of the Moving On Center Certificate Program in Somatics and Participatory Arts m Oakland, CA. She holds a BA m psychology from Duke University and an MFA m dance from Sarah Lawrence College. Ms. Hackney performed with the Bill Evans Dance Company has taught throughout the United States and Europe, and previously was on the faculty of the University of Washington. She has also worked m physical therapy clinics helping people facilitate their own healing through individualized movement programs.