Your Move

Ann Hutchinson Guest, Tina Curran

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• eBook ISBN: 9781000939460
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Dance

This second edition of this well-known text book now offers downloadable resources to accompany the dance studies throughout the chapters. The authors take a new approach to teaching, learning and creating with notation through movement exploration, exercises and short dances, thus enlarging the scope of the book to teachers of movement, movement analysis and choreography as well as the traditional dance notation students.

Updated and enlarged to reflect the most recent scholarship and through a series of exercises, this book guides students through:

• movement, stillness, timing, shaping, accents
• travelling
• direction,
• flexion and extension,
• rotations, revolutions and turns
• supporting, change of support
• springing
• balance
• relationships.

All of these movements are explored sequentially and are represented symbolically in notation so the student learns how to physically articulate, notate and describe the movements as they are performed.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Acknowledgments
• Table of Contents
• Reading Studies and Reading Practices
• Introduction
• Movement Alphabet of Verbs
• Chapter One – Movement; Stillness; Timing; Shape; Accents
• Chapter Two – Traveling
• Chapter Three – Variations In Traveling
• Chapter Four – Absence of Support: Springing (Elevation); The Five Basic Forms
• Chapter Five – Direction—Definition of Space
• Chapter Six – Direction—Broader Exploration of Space
• Chapter Seven – Flexion; Extension
• Chapter Eight – Rotations, Revolutions, Turns
• Chapter Nine – Supporting; Change of Support
• Chapter Ten – Balance, Loss of Balance
• Chapter Eleven – Relationships
• Chapter Twelve – Relationships: Further Development
• Chapter Thirteen – Body Initiations: Central, Peripheral; Part Leading, Guidance
• Chapter Fourteen – One-Sided Gestures; Gestural Pathways; Gathering, Scattering
• Chapter Fifteen – Directions: The Diagonals
• Chapter Sixteen – Turning of Body Parts: Unit Rotation, Twist
• Chapter Seventeen – Flexion and Extension: Specific Forms
• Chapter Eighteen – Relationship: Situations in Meeting; Looking
• Chapter Nineteen – Specific Directional Actions
• Chapter Twenty – Destination, Motion
• Chapter Twenty-One – Direction: Systems of Reference
• Chapter Twenty-Two – Timing; Phrasing; Dynamics—Recapitulation
• Conclusion
• Appendix A: Validity; Organization of the Notation
• Appendix B: Transition from Motif to Structured Description
• Appendix C: Flexion and Extension — Additional Material
• Appendix D: Terminology
• Appendix E: The Family Tree of Verbs
• Index