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Author:   Brigitta Herrmann ,  Manfred Fischbeck ,  Elia A. Sinaiko
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.254kg
ISBN:  

9781476672786

ISBN 10:   1476672784
Pages:   202
Publication Date:   04 July 2018
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface Introduction The Origins of Group Motion Group Motion in Practice Dance Is My Life: Brigitta’s Story Running into Dance: Manfred’s Story Group Motion Performance Stories Part I. Group Motion Game Structures Solo/Duet Active-Passive Activation Mirror Closing Your Eyes Self Portrait Dance Solo Dance/Writing Dialogue Connected to Strings Self-Activation Breathing Movement Final Reflections on Solo/Duet Forms Circle Impulse Name Game Adding Final Reflections on Circle Forms Space Areas Crystallization The Grid Shadow Dance Exchange Game Moving or Being Still Triangle/Diamond Dance Group Dialogue/Trialogue Dance Final Reflections on Space Forms Sound Time Dance Message Dance Receiving Sound Energy Conducting Sound Energy Sound Activation/Soundscapes Words into Sounds Final Reflections on Sound Forms Word Traveling Landscapes Say What You Do Word/Movement Mirror Chat Room Writing Process and Activation Textography Storytelling Dance Alter Ego Monologue Alter Ego Dialogue Final Reflections on Word Forms Ritual House or Village Square Dance Object Dance Group Activations Tableaux Stills Group Tableaux Travel Evolution Cycle Past Lives Circle Doing Nothing: The Dance of Stillness Game Sequences Introduction to the Friday Night Workshop Model of Group Motion on a Friday Night The Significance of Ritual Dances Part II. Group Motion Practices Eight Therapeutic Principles of Group Motion The Partnership of Dance and Music A Process of Collective Creation Community Performance Project Monday Night Improv Lab Moving Beyond the Games Reflection on the Practice of Free Improvisation Practice of Interaction with Technology Part III. Closing Conversations and Meditations Cooperation: The Universal Creative Principle Dance as a Vehicle for Understanding Human Nature The Awakening of the Body in the Technological Age The Art of Dance and Transformation The Art of Free Improvisation From Then to Now and There to Here Dance as an Art Form Dance Is a Way of Life Appendix I: Dance Chronology: Brigitta Herrmann Appendix II: Theater and Dance Chronology: Manfred Fischbeck Bibliography Index

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Group Motion's work is unique in that is takes what is often practiced in insular modern and post-modern dance communities and brings it weekly to the Philadelphia community...and now to anyone who picks up this book. --Thinking Dance

“Group Motion’s work is unique in that is takes what is often practiced in insular modern and post-modern dance communities and brings it weekly to the Philadelphia community...and now to anyone who picks up this book.”—Thinking Dance

Author Information

Brigitta Herrmann is a dancer, performer, choreographer, and movement educator. As co-founder and co-artistic director of Motion in Berlin, Group Motion Multimedia Dance Theater, and of Ausdruckstanz Dance Theater in Philadelphia, she is a leading force in the arena of dance/movement improvisation and choreography. The late Manfred Fischbeck was co-founder and co-artistic director of Group Motion Multimedia Dance Theater. A performer, teacher, choreographer, musician, and innovator in improvisation and dance technology, he taught dance at the University of the Arts, Philadelphia, and theater at the University of Pennsylvania. Elia A. Sinaiko, PhD, is an independent researcher in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Anna Beresin, PhD, is a play researcher and professor of liberal arts at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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