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Dance Composition

A Practical Guide to Creative Success in Dance Making
Author: Search for this author Smith-Autard, Jaqueline M. (author)
Statement of Responsibility: Jaqueline M. Smith-Autard
Medium identifier: SKH
Year: 2010
Publisher: London, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Series: Performance Bks.
Media group: E-Book
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Dance composition is an important part of dance education because it is the discipline that translates ideas into dances. Revised, redesigned and expanded, and now with a new DVD, this seminal book explores essential guidelines and thus contributes to a greater understanding of dance composition as a discipline.

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Author: Search for this author Smith-Autard, Jaqueline M. (author)
Statement of Responsibility: Jaqueline M. Smith-Autard
Medium identifier: SKH
Year: 2010
Publisher: London, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Works included: Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- A note on the DVD -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Dancing and composing dances -- Dance as art -- The nature of composition -- The material elements -- Methods of construction -- The nature of dance compositio, Section 1 -- The material content - movement and meaning -- The basic language of movement -- Analysing the language -- Choice of content -- Literal movement into dance content -- Exploring a range of movement -- Movement and meaning -- Stylising t, Section 2 -- Methods of construction 1 - the beginnings -- Stimuli for dance -- Types of dances -- Mode of presentation -- Improvisation -- Methods of construction 2 - motif into composition -- Arrangement of material -- Form -- What is a motif? --, Repetition as a constructional element -- Types of motif -- The dance design in time -- The dance design in space -- Motif in composition -- Methods of construction 3 - motif into composition for a group -- The group as an expressive element --, The time aspect -- The space aspect -- Methods of construction 4 - the dance form -- Design in time -- Organisation of the form -- Methods of construction 5 - elements of construction -- Motifs -- Repetition -- Variation and contrasts, Climax or highlights -- Proportion and balance -- Transition -- Logical development -- Unity -- Methods of construction 6 - style -- Understanding the term style -- Factors affecting the style of a dance -- How to stylise a dance --, 7 - improvisation in the process of composition -- Meaning of terms - improvisation and exploration -- Free and limited improvisation -- Improvisation in framework compositions -- Guiding improvisation visually -- Improvisation as process in compos
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ISBN: 9781408145302
Description: 6th ed., 1 online resource (257 pages)
Series: Performance Bks.
Tags: Choreography; Dance / Study and teaching; Creative ability; Movement, Aesthetics of; Improvisation; Improvisation in dance
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Language: Englisch
Date of Copyright: ©2010
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Media group: E-Book