Dance Imagery for Technique and Performance

Dance Imagery for Technique and Performance, Third Edition, written by renowned master teacher Eric Franklin, provides readers with a deep understanding of how to implement imagery in their dances, improving their skill and artistic expression in both practice and performance.

Now in full color, this edition presents over 900 imagery exercises to refine improvisation, technique, and choreography, with Franklin’s signature artwork throughout. The book features over 200 practical and beautiful illustrations.

Updates throughout the text reflect the most-up-to-date scientific research in the field, providing readers with a strong foundation to continue refining their dance technique.

This edition features additional imagery exercises with a wider variety of dance forms and styles, and it includes exercises that can restore and regenerate the body through massage, touch, and stretching. Franklin offers guidance in using imagery to convey information about a dancer’s steps and to clarify the intent and content of movement.

Four audio imagery exercises, narrated by the author himself, guide the reader through meditations to relax and restore the body and mind. These audio exercises promote constructive rest.

Improvisation exercises help readers investigate new inner landscapes to create and communicate various movement qualities, provide guidelines for applying imagery in the dance class, and help dancers expand their repertoire of expressiveness in technique and performance across ballet, modern, and contemporary dance.

Dance Imagery for Technique and Performance, Third Edition, supplies imagery tools for enhancing or preparing for performance, and it emphasizes the importance of imagery in dancing and teaching dance. Franklin’s method of using imagery in dance is displayed throughout this lavishly illustrated book, and the research from scientific and dance literature that supports Franklin’s method is detailed. The text, exercises, and illustrations make this book a practical resource for dancers and dance educators alike.

Note: A URL to access the online materials is included in this ebook.