Drid Williams's Teaching Dancing with Ideokinetic Principles PDF

By Drid Williams

ISBN-10: 0252036085

ISBN-13: 9780252036088

ISBN-10: 0252077997

ISBN-13: 9780252077999

In reading ideokinesis and its program to the educating and perform of dancing, Drid Williams introduces readers to the paintings of Dr. Lulu Sweigard (1895–1974), a pioneer of ideokinetic ideas. Drawing on her studies in the course of deepest educational classes with Sweigard over a two-year span, Williams discusses equipment utilizing imagery for making improvements to physique posture and alignment for ease of move. critical to Williams's personal educating equipment is the applying of Sweigard's rules and common anatomical guide, together with how she used visible imagery to assist hinder physically accidents and extending physique know-how relative to stream. Williams additionally emphasizes the diversities among kinesthetic (internal) and replicate (external) imagery and stocks reactions from expert dancers who have been taught utilizing ideokinesis. Williams's account of educating and practising ideokinesis is supplemented with essays by means of Sweigard, William James, and Jean-Georges Noverre on dancing, posture, and conduct. Teaching Dancing with Ideokinetic Principles deals an incredible historic viewpoint and priceless insights from years of educating event into how ideokinesis can form a bigger philosophy of the dance.

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