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Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery Eric Franklin

Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery By Eric Franklin

Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery by Eric Franklin


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Summary

Shows you how to use imaging techniques to improve posture and alignment and release excess tension. This book contains 195 illustrations that help you visualize the images and exercises and show you how to use them in a variety of contexts.

Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery Summary

Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery by Eric Franklin

Destined to become a classic text and reference, "Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery" shows you how to use imaging techniques to improve posture and alignment and release excess tension. The book's 195 illustrations will help you visualize the images and exercises and show you how to use them in a variety of contexts. Part I of "Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery" discusses the origins and uses of imagery and includes 36 exercises that demonstrate dynamic alignment in practice. You'll explore the importance of posture and dynamic alignment and discover how to use imagery to affect body movement. Part II explains the biomechanical and anatomical principles behind complex imagery and illustrates 52 exercises to bring these principles to life. You'll learn how to use basic physics to create a strong yet fluid balance in your muscles and joints. Part III provides 250 anatomical imagery exercises to help you fine-tune alignments and increase body awareness. The exercises focus on different regions of the body - the pelvis, hips, knees, lower legs, spine, shoulders, arms, hands, head, and neck - as well as on breathing. You can select specific images to address individual needs or follow the sequence presented in the book. And Part IV provides 23 holistic exercises to sculpt and improve alignment in various positions - standing, supine, and sitting. These exercises will help you establish a body image that facilitates dynamic alignment and releases excess tension. By practicing the techniques described in "Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery", you'll tap into the power of imagery and create better movement.

Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery Reviews

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"""The use of imagery to improve human alignment and movement has been practiced by relatively few adherents, most of them professionals. Now, with Eric Franklin's book Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery, the technique of using imagery is made clear for the general public as well for professionals. Franklin is to be commended for bringing this important work to a wider audience."""
Andre Bernard
Adjunct Assistant Professor Dance Education
New York University
"""This is a charming and humorous synthesis of ideas contained in the writings of Mabel Todd, Lulu Sweigard, Barbara Clark, and their students."""
Irene Dowd
Faculty, The Juilliard School
Guest Faculty, The National Ballet School of Canada
"""The main purpose of body alignment in dance is to create efficient control of movement. Eric Franklin's book Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery equips readers with the basic knowledge and exercises to achieve a clear and useful alignment."""
Zvi Gotheiner
Choreographer and Teacher, New York City
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About Eric Franklin

Eric Franklin has more than 20 years' experience as a dancer and choreographer. In addition to earning a BFA from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and a BS from the University of Zurich, he has studied and trained with some of the top movement imagery specialists around the world and used this training as a professional dancer in New York. Franklin has shared imaging techniques in his teaching since 1986. He is founder and director of the Institute for Movement Imagery Education in Lucerne, Switzerland, and professor of postgraduate studies at the Institute for Psychomotor Therapy in Zurich, Switzerland. He is a guest professor at the University of Vienna (Musikhochschule) and has been on the faculty of the American Dance Festival since 1991. Franklin teaches at universities, dance centers, and dance festivals in the United States and througout Europe. Franklin is coauthor of the bestselling book Breakdance, which received a New York City Public Library Prize in 1984, and author of 100 Ideen fur Beweglichkeit and Dance Imagery for Technique and Performance (both books about imagery in dance and movement). He is a member of the International Association of Dance Medicine and Science.

Table of Contents

Part I: Posture and Dynamic Alignment; Chapter 1. The Roots of Imagery for Alignment; Chapter 2. Postural Models and Dynamic Alignment; Chapter 3. Body-Mind Interactions; Chapter 4. Individual Patterns of Habitual Movement; Chapter 5. Imagery Categorization; Chapter 6. General Guidelines Before Imaging; Part II: Biomechanical and Anatomical Principles and Exercises; Chapter 7. Location and Direction in the Body; Chapter 8. Force, Gravity, and Mass; Chapter 9. The Laws of Motion and Force Systems; Chapter 10. Joint and Muscle Function; Part III: Anatomical Imagery Exercises; Chapter 11. The Pelvis, Hip Joint, and Company; Chapter 12. The Knee and Lower Leg; Chapter 13. The Spine; Chapter 14. The Shoulders, Arms, and Hands; Chapter 15. The Head and Neck; Chapter 16. The Lungs, Diaphragm, and Skin: Breathing; Part IV: Returning to Holistic Alignment; Chapter 17. Alignment Revisited; Chapter 18. Other Exercises to Create Dynamic Alignment

Additional information

GOR001612252
9780873224758
0873224752
Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery by Eric Franklin
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Human Kinetics Publishers
1996-10-17
232
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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