ABSTRACT

This second edition of this well-known text book now offers downloadable resources to accompany the dance studies throughout the chapters. The authors take a new approach to teaching, learning and creating with notation through movement exploration, exercises and short dances, thus enlarging the scope of the book to teachers of movement, movement analysis 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, change of support
  • springing
  • balance
  • relationships.

All of these movements are explored sequentially and are represented symbolically in notation so the student learns how to physically articulate, notate and describe the movements as they are performed.

chapter Chapter One|25 pages

Movement; Stillness; Timing; Shape; Accents

chapter Chapter Two|19 pages

Traveling

chapter Chapter Three|28 pages

Variations in Traveling

chapter Chapter Five|28 pages

Direction—Definition of Space

chapter Chapter Six|20 pages

Direction—Broader Exploration of Space

chapter Chapter Seven|20 pages

Flexion; Extension

chapter Chapter Eight|19 pages

Rotations, Revolutions, Turns

chapter Chapter Nine|21 pages

Supporting; Change of Support

chapter Chapter Ten|27 pages

Balance, Loss of Balance

chapter Chapter Eleven|29 pages

Relationships

chapter Chapter Twelve|18 pages

Relationships: Further Development

chapter Chapter Thirteen|20 pages

Body Initiations: Central, Peripheral; Part Leading, Guidance

chapter Chapter Fourteen|28 pages

One-Sided Gestures; Gestural Pathways; Gathering, Scattering

chapter Chapter Fifteen|14 pages

Directions: The Diagonals

chapter Chapter Sixteen|23 pages

Turning of Body Parts: Unit Rotation, Twist

chapter Chapter Seventeen|38 pages

Flexion and Extension: Specific Forms

chapter Chapter Eighteen|22 pages

Relationship: Situations in Meeting; Looking

chapter Chapter Nineteen|21 pages

Specific Directional Actions

chapter Chapter Twenty|28 pages

Destination, Motion

chapter Chapter Twenty-One|17 pages

Direction: Systems of Reference

chapter Chapter Twenty-Two|17 pages

Timing; Phrasing; Dynamics—Recapitulation

chapter |2 pages

Conclusion