Erick Hawkins Modern Dance Technique

Name: Erick Hawkins Modern Dance Technique
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ISBN: 9780871272133

ISBN-10: 087127213X

ISBN-13: 9780871272133

Edition: 2000

Authors: Renata Celichowska, Leon Belokon, Leon Belokon

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Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Princeton Book Company Publishers
Publication date: 9/1/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Renata Celichowskabecame a member of the Erick Hawkins Dance Company in 1989 and is currently adjunct professor for the dance education program at New York University. She lives in New York City.



List of Illustrations


List of Photographs


List of Labanotation


Acknowledgments


Tribute




Historical Background



Technique: Toward the "Normative"


The Normative Ideal


What Is Technique, What Is Style?


About Ideokinesis and Movement Imagery


Think/Feel


Who Is the Teacher?



Principles


The Body's Center of Gravity: the Pelvis


"Teeterbabe,"


The "Thigh" Sockets


Shifting Weight


"Undercurves" and "Overcurves,"


Gravity, Weight, Balance and Alignment


The Spine and Spinal Alignment


Leg Alignment


"Hierarchy" of the Legs


Contraction and "Decontraction"


"Tassels,"


Arcs, Curves and Momentum


Loops and the "Figure 8,"


"Boomerangs,"


Spirals


Flow and Transitions


Flow


Form


The "Chalkline,"


"Cobra" Hand


Normative Form and Aesthetics


What Is Rhythm? Is Music Sound?


Dynamics



In the Classroom


Floor Warm Up


Seated Movement Sequences


Bounces


Side-lifts


Contraction-Swings


Overcurves


Contractions


Leg Flexions


Fourth Position


Quarter Turns


Back Leg Extensions


Three 3s


Swing on 5


Movement Sequences on the Back


Thigh Socket Flexions


Rolling on 4


Boomerangs


Contractions


Figure 8s


Arching


Preparing to Rise from the Floor


Leg Lifts


Rising to Standing


Center Floor


Plies


Sensuous Feet Against the Floor


Principles Expanded


Using the Thigh Socket Crease and the Boomerang Leg


Moving the Pelvis and Upper Body Together Through Space


Turns and the Spiral Staircase


Letting the Movement Happen: Staying in Coenesthetic Experience


Traveling


Use of the Dance Space


Vertical Space, Jumps and Leaping "Over the Moon,"


Ending Class



Beyond Technique: the Aesthetic Dimension


F.S.C. Northrop and the 1st and 2nd Functions of Art


The "Hawkins Aesthetic"


Dance Education and the Role of the Dance Teacher



Hawkins Choreography


Works Choreographed by Erick Hawkins


Labanotation


About the Notation Process


Reading Labanotation


Recommended Reading


Bibliography


Videography


Index