Dance Words
- Editor: Preston-Dunlop, Valerie
Dance Words
- Editor: Preston-Dunlop, Valerie
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In her unique collection of the verbal language of dance practitioners and researchers, Valerie Preston-Dunlop presents a comprehensive view of people in dance: what they do, their movement, their sound, and the space in which they work - from the standpoint of the performers, choreographers, audiences, administrators, and teachers. The words and phrases of their technical and vernacular languages, which are used to communicate what is essentially a non-verbal activity, have been collected in rehearsal classes and workshops by interviews, and from published sources. In this first collection of its kind Valerie Preston-Dunlop extends her selection of verbal language to include the various social and theatrical domains of dance.
Contents
- Part One The Dance Domain
- Chapter 1 The Dance Domain
- Chapter 2 Dance People
- Part Two The Performer
- Chapter 3 The Performer
- Chapter 4 The Performer and the Movement
- Chapter 5 Technique
- Chapter 6 Costume
- Part Three Movement
- Chapter 7 Movement and the Moving Body
- Chapter 8 Dynamics and Timing of Movement
- Chapter 9 Space-in-the-Body and the Dancer in Space
- Chapter 10 Notation
- Part Four Choreography
- Chapter 11 Choreographic form
- Chapter 12 Some Ensemble, Group, Duo and Solo Dance Concerns
- Chapter 13 Choreographic Processes
- Part Five The Dance Sound and the Dance Space
- Chapter 14 The Dance Sound
- Chapter 15 The Sound and the Movement
- Chapter 16 The Dance Space
- Part Six The Dance Event
- Chapter 17 Repertory, Revival, and Tradition
- Chapter 18 The Nexus and the Emergence of Style
- Chapter 19 Communication
- Part Seven Dance Research
- Chapter 20 Dance Research
