ABSTRACT
The principle of 'learning by doing' in dance has acquired an entirely new meaning. The problem when learning a dance technique, especially the practically objective classical technique, is that in general these regulations are negated or at least insufficiently observed. Individual movement experiences, stored in the movement memory bank, and natural reflexes play a subsidiary role. The DANAMOS system serves to make the crucial functional movement concepts underlying the complex classic canon explicit and transparent, in order to help dancers, dance learners and teachers understand not only what to do, but how, and why. The seven morphemes of DANAMOS are the body centre of mass; the body axis; lifting and lowering the whole leg; bending and stretching the leg; flexing and extending the lower leg; rotation of the leg in the hip joint; and turning of the torso while legs stay anchored.
