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Functional awareness : anatomy in action for dancers / Nancy Romita and Allegra Romita.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, [2016]Description: 1 online resource (viii, 93 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780190498160
  • 0190498161
  • 9780190498153
  • 0190498153
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Functional awareness.DDC classification:
  • 617.1/0275 23
LOC classification:
  • RC1220.D35 R66 2016
NLM classification:
  • WE 103
Other classification:
  • MUS011000 | MUS002000
Online resources:
Contents:
1. Relationship of habit to dance training -- 2. Skeletal center of gravity : moving out of habit and into a balanced standing posture -- 3. Anatomical and kinesthetic imagery : impact of thinking on doing -- 4. Deep muscles of postural support -- 5. Motions of the trunk and elegant use of spiral -- 6. The pelvis as conduit from head to feet -- 7. Ways of walking : how gait affects dance training -- 8. Breath as the deep central support for dancing -- 9. Core support -- 10. Expressivity of arms -- 11. Recuperation and restoring balance.
Summary: "Functional Awareness: Anatomy in Action for Dancers is where anatomy meets artistry. Each chapter provides explorations in embodied anatomy in an engaging manner with the use of images, storytelling, and experiential exercises. It is an accessible introduction to the relationship between daily movement habits, dance training and anatomy. The information is founded on over 30,000 hours of experience teaching and training dancers to generate efficient exertion and appropriate recuperation. Functional Awareness: Anatomy in Action for Dancers employs somatic practices along with explorations in experiential anatomy to awaken the body-mind connection and improve movement function. The book applies the Functional Awareness� approach to improve dance technique and provide skills to enable the dancer to move with balance and grace in the classroom, on stage, and in daily life."-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Relationship of habit to dance training -- 2. Skeletal center of gravity : moving out of habit and into a balanced standing posture -- 3. Anatomical and kinesthetic imagery : impact of thinking on doing -- 4. Deep muscles of postural support -- 5. Motions of the trunk and elegant use of spiral -- 6. The pelvis as conduit from head to feet -- 7. Ways of walking : how gait affects dance training -- 8. Breath as the deep central support for dancing -- 9. Core support -- 10. Expressivity of arms -- 11. Recuperation and restoring balance.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 25, 2019).

"Functional Awareness: Anatomy in Action for Dancers is where anatomy meets artistry. Each chapter provides explorations in embodied anatomy in an engaging manner with the use of images, storytelling, and experiential exercises. It is an accessible introduction to the relationship between daily movement habits, dance training and anatomy. The information is founded on over 30,000 hours of experience teaching and training dancers to generate efficient exertion and appropriate recuperation. Functional Awareness: Anatomy in Action for Dancers employs somatic practices along with explorations in experiential anatomy to awaken the body-mind connection and improve movement function. The book applies the Functional Awareness� approach to improve dance technique and provide skills to enable the dancer to move with balance and grace in the classroom, on stage, and in daily life."-- Provided by publisher.

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