Your Move

A New Approach to the Study of Movement and Dance

Ann Hutchinson Guest

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9780677063652
• eBook ISBN: 9781135073275
• Topic: Médias et arts de la scène
• Subtopic: Danse

Your Move: A New Approach to the Study of Movement and Dance establishes a fresh and original framework for looking at dance. In examining the basic elements of dance - the Alphabet of Movement - and using illustrations of movement technique and notation symbols it provides a new way to see, to teach and to choreograph dance. This book gives a list of primary actions upon which all physical activity is gased, focusing on both the functional and expressive sides of movement.
It draws upon the author's broad experience in ballet, modern and ethnic dance to reinterpret movement and to shed new light on the role of movement in dance. Your Move is an important book not only for dancers but also for instructors in sport and physical therapy. Each copy of Your Move comes complete with exercise sheets, which can also be purchased separately. A teacher's guide has also been designed providing notes on each chapter, approaches to the exploration of movement, interpretation of the reading studies, additional information of motif description and answers to the exercise sheets. An optional audio cassette, with music written and recorded especially for use with the book, is also available.

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The Exercise Sheets: Answers

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NOTES TO THE TEACHER

The aim of the exercise sheets is to provide a check both for the teacher and for the students on how the movement material and use of the symbols have been understood. Emphasis is not on mastering the system of notation but on establishing an understanding of the meaning of notated statements.

Motif Description allows greater freedom than Structured Description and is purposely less precise; as a result there may be some variation in the answers to the exercise sheets. The answers which are provided here are intended to indicate the usual, expected answers. Obviously there is bound to be some variation and some lattitude needs to be allowed in marking an answer right or wrong. Variation may be not only in the content but also in placement of symbols, their length and width, and how in general the material to be written is organized. Let us consider some of the possible variations.

Neatness in Drawing Symbols

Some students are by nature neat and tend to take time to draw neatly ruled symbols; others scribble untidily. Since emphasis is not on achieving writing skills, neatness should not be stressed. What is important is the content of what is written and that it be legible. Size of the signs may vary considerably, particularly in width of symbols. Variety in width is not important but exaggeration should be avoided. In Motif Description symbols are usually drawn larger than in finished Structured Description scores. The larger size helps to stress the general nature of the description; smaller symbols give an impression of greater precision. However, as stated before, width of symbol does affect the content of the notation. Length of symbol is another matter since length means timing, the duration of the action.

Placement of Symbols

Appendix A was added to Your Move because some students want to know whether differences in ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Full Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• GENERAL NOTES
• SPECIFIC NOTES FOR EACH CHAPTER
• THE EXERCISE SHEETS: ANSWERS