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Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery
About the Product
Destined to become a classic text and reference, Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery
shows you how to use imaging techniques to improve posture and
alignment and release excess tension. The book’s 195 illustrations will
help you visualize the images and exercises and show you how to use
them in a variety of contexts.
Part I of Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery discusses the
origins and uses of imagery and includes 36 exercises that demonstrate
dynamic alignment in practice. You’ll explore the importance of posture
and dynamic alignment and discover how to use imagery to affect body
movement.
Part II explains the biomechanical and anatomical principles behind
complex imagery and illustrates 52 exercises to bring these principles
to life. You’ll learn how to use basic physics to create a strong yet
fluid balance in your muscles and joints.
Part III provides 250 anatomical imagery exercises to help you
fine-tune alignments and increase body awareness. The exercises focus
on different regions of the body--the pelvis, hips, knees, lower legs,
spine, shoulders, arms, hands, head, and neck--as well as on breathing.
You can select specific images to address individual needs or follow
the sequence presented in the book.
And Part IV provides 23 holistic exercises to sculpt and improve
alignment in various positions--standing, supine, and sitting. These
exercises will help you establish a body image that facilitates dynamic
alignment and releases excess tension.
By practicing the techniques described in Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery, you’ll tap into the power of imagery and create better movement.
About the Author
Eric Franklin has more than 20 years’ experience as a dancer and
choreographer. In addition to earning a BFA from New York University’s
Tisch School of the Arts and a BS from the University of Zurich, he has
studied and trained with some of the top movement imagery specialists
around the world and used this training as a professional dancer in New
York.
Franklin has shared imaging techniques in his teaching since 1986. He
is founder and director of the Institute for Movement Imagery Education
in Lucerne, Switzerland, and professor of postgraduate studies at the
Institute for Psychomotor Therapy in Zurich, Switzerland. He is a guest
professor at the University of Vienna (Musikhochschule) and has been on
the faculty of the American Dance Festival since 1991. Franklin teaches
at universities, dance centers, and dance festivals in the United
States and througout Europe.
Franklin is coauthor of the bestselling book Breakdance, which received a New York City Public Library Prize in 1984, and author of 100 Ideen für Beweglichkeit and Dance Imagery for Technique and Performance
(both books about imagery in dance and movement). He is a member of the
International Association of Dance Medicine and Science.
Franklin lives near Zurich, Switzerland, with his wife, Gabriela, and their two children.
Table of Contents
Part I: Posture and Dynamic Alignment
Chapter 1. The Roots of Imagery for Alignment
Chapter 2. Postural Models and Dynamic Alignment
Chapter 3. Body-Mind Interactions
Chapter 4. Individual Patterns of Habitual Movement
Chapter 5. Imagery Categorization
Chapter 6. General Guidelines Before Imaging
Part II: Biomechanical and Anatomical Principles and Exercises
Chapter 7. Location and Direction in the Body
Chapter 8. Force, Gravity, and Mass
Chapter 9. The Laws of Motion and Force Systems
Chapter 10. Joint and Muscle Function
Part III: Anatomical Imagery Exercises
Chapter 11. The Pelvis, Hip Joint, and Company
Chapter 12. The Knee and Lower Leg
Chapter 13. The Spine
Chapter 14. The Shoulders, Arms, and Hands
Chapter 15. The Head and Neck
Chapter 16. The Lungs, Diaphragm, and Skin: Breathing
Part IV: Returning to Holistic Alignment
Chapter 17. Alignment Revisited
Chapter 18. Other Exercises to Create Dynamic Alignment
Words of Praise
"The use of imagery to improve human alignment and movement has been
practiced by relatively few adherents, most of them professionals. Now,
with Eric Franklin’s book Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery, the
technique of using imagery is made clear for the general public as well
for professionals. Franklin is to be commended for bringing this
important work to a wider audience."
Andre Bernard
Adjunct Assistant Professor Dance Education
New York University
"This is a charming and humorous synthesis of ideas contained in the
writings of Mabel Todd, Lulu Sweigard, Barbara Clark, and their
students."
Irene Dowd
Faculty, The Juilliard School
Guest Faculty, The National Ballet School of Canada
"The main purpose of body alignment in dance is to create efficient
control of movement. Eric Franklin’s book Dynamic Alignment Through
Imagery equips readers with the basic knowledge and exercises to
achieve a clear and useful alignment."
Zvi Gotheiner
Choreographer and Teacher, New York City
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