Ballet Beyond Tradition

Name: Ballet Beyond Tradition
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ISBN: 9780415970174

ISBN-10: 0415970172

ISBN-13: 9780415970174

Edition: 2005

Authors: Anna Paskevska

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For nearly a century, the training of ballet and modern dancers has followed two divergent paths. Modern practitioners felt ballet was artificial and injurious to the body; ballet teachers felt that modern dancers lacked the rigorous discipline and control that comes only from years of progressive training. Ballet Beyond Traditionseeks to reconcile these age-old conflicts and bring a new awareness to ballet teachers of the importance of a holistic training regimen that draws on the best that modern dance and movement-studies offers. Paskevska persuasively argues that the most vital dance movement is one that absorbs outside influences as well as preserving its traditions.Ballet Beyond…

Book details

List price: $145.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 11/14/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 200
Size: 6.42" wide x 9.33" long x 0.47" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English

Anna Paskevska, Chair of the Dance Department at the Chicago Academy for the Arts, was a professional ballerina with the Royal Ballet School in London. She is the author of From the First Plie to Mastery and Both Sides of the Mirror: The Science and Art of Ballet.




Introduction



Brief historical perspective



The body's center



Alignment



Succession



Opposition



Potential and kinetic energy



Fall



Weight



Recovery and rebound



Suspension



Isolation



Laying the foundation



Exercises of the barre



Introduction to the class



Conclusion