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Author Bartenieff, Irmgard.

Title Body movement : coping with the environment / by Irmgard Bartenieff with Dori Lewis.

Publication Info. New York : Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, ©1980.

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 289 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-286) and index.
Access Concurrent user level: Unlimited
Contents Cover; Half-title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Credits; Acknowledgments; Preface; Table of Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1. Activate and Motivate; Chapter 2. The Body Architecture; Chapter 3. Carving Shapes in Space; Chapter 4. Inner Impulses to Move; Chapter 5. Rhythm and Phrasing; Chapter 6. Affinities of Body, Space and Effort; Chapter 7. Tensions and Countertensions; Chapter 8. Group Interaction; Chapter 9. Dance Therapy; Chapter 10. Ethnic Studies; Chapter 11. Additional Applications; Epilogue; Appendix A. Documentation of Observations: Notation and Methodology.
Appendix B. Bartenieff Fundamentals ExercisesSources of the Quotations; Bibliography; Index.
Summary ""'Irmgard Bartenieff has a profound knowledge of the human body and how it moves. I am delighted that this will now be made available to many more people.'.""--George Balanchine of Director, New York City Ballet""'Irmgard Bartenieff's pioneering work in the multiple applications of Labananalysis has had a transforming influence on many areas of movement training. Her careful and detailed development of the spatial principles into active corrective work has illuminated and altered the training of people as varied as dancers, choreographers, physical therapists, movement and dance therapi.
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Provenance Gift of Paul and Mary Haas.
Subject Movement, Psychology of.
Movement, Psychology of.
Motor ability.
Motor ability.
Dance therapy.
Dance therapy.
Physical therapy.
Physical therapy.
Movement, Psychology of -- Cross-cultural studies.
Genre/Form Cross-cultural studies.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Author Lewis, Dori.
Other Form: Print version: Bartenieff, Irmgard. Body movement 0677055005 (DLC) 80007454 (OCoLC)6887469
ISBN 9781136758379 (electronic book)
1136758372 (electronic book)
0677055005
9780677055008