Your Move (2ND 05 Edition)

< P> < P> This new edition of a well-known text book now offers an integrated package including exercise sheets and audio CD with a supporting Teachers Manual offered separately on the Web. The author takes a new approach to teaching notation through movement exercises, thus enlarging the scope of the book to teachers of movement and choreography as well as the traditional dance notation students.< /P> < P> Updated and enlarged to reflect the most recent scholarship and through a series of exercises, this book guides students through: < /P> < UL> < LI> movement, stillness, timing, shaping, accents< /LI> < LI> travelling< /LI> < LI> direction, flexion and extension< /LI> < LI> rotations, revolutions and turns< /LI> < LI> supporting< /LI> < LI> balance< /LI> < LI> relationships.< /LI> < P> < /P> < /UL> < P> All of these movements are related to notation, so the student learns how to notate and describe the movements as they are performed.< /P> < /P>

"Your Move: A New Approach to the Study of Movement and Dance, 2nd Edition "is a revision of a well-known textbook used by teachers of dance movement and dance notation. In it, the author takes a new approach to teaching notation through movement exercises, thus enlarging the scope of the book to teachers of movement and choreography as well as the traditional dance notation students. Through a series of exercises, the student progresses through the basic movement vocabulary, from traveling through support and elevation (jumping); direction; flexion and extension; rotations, revolutions, and turns; supporting; balance; relationships; leading; gestures; direction; aerial steps; turning of the body parts; destination; and dynamics. All of these movements are related to notation, so the student learns how to notate and describe the movements as they are performed.

This second edition of a well-known text book now offers an integrated package including exercise sheets and audio CD with a supporting Teacher's Manual offered separately on the Web. The author takes a new approach to teaching notation through movement exercises, thus enlarging the scope of the book to teachers of movement and choreography as well as the traditional dance notation students.

Updated and enlarged to reflect the most recent scholarship and through a series of exercises, this book guides students through:

• movement, stillness, timing, shaping, accents
• travelling
• direction, flexion and extension
• rotations, revolutions and turns
• supporting
• balance
• relationships.

All of these movements are related to notation, so the student learns how to notate and describe the movements as they are performed.