SOFTCOVER SPECIAL Edition KDP

This book offers a comprehensive toolbox of approaches
to analysing and creating contemporary
choreography.

Are you ready to deepen your understanding
of the world of dance and the creative
process of choreography?

In this book about choreography you will learn
how to develop dance and performance.
In order for you to truly enjoy the process of
choreography, I will offer you tools to help you
enter into a creative flow.
Because ultimately, that’s what it’s all about:
getting into a free flowing joyful process with the
dancers and having plenty of fun along the way,
as you develop a solo, a duet or a group piece for
the stage or a film.

You will learn how to expand your repertoire and
how to trigger in your dancers, identification and
connection with your theme.

I will present various ways in which you can
develop and structure your work. Tools with
which you can introduce tension, multiple facets,
variety and powerful dynamics into your dances,
allowing a dramaturgy to emerge.

You will receive over 120 exercises to inspire you
for your rehearsals or classes.
You can now preview the entire book online for
free or download a reading sample.
Take a look.
It will inspire you and your dancing and it will
improve your choreography.

When it comes to choreography, many
dancers are initially lost.
Nevertheless, there are people who can’t
dance and still develop great pieces.
Maybe you’re a gifted mover, but that
doesn’t mean that your material works in one
piece.

Even if your movements are great and
others admire you for how you dance, it can
happen very quickly that the sensation of your
skills wears off very quickly and your movements
seem arbitrary. Especially if you have transferred
them to a group. And you ask yourself in such a
moment: What am I doing wrong? My dancers
are great, my movement material is innovative,
but on stage it all seems interchangeable and it’s
just movement. And you think: This is all
pointless.

No, that’s not it! It’s about how you deal
with everything. How you connect the dancers
with your ideas and with your material. How you
manage that the dancers make your visions and
your movements theirs. How to get them there
to identify with what moves you. But even that is
not enough.

You need to know more about how
dramaturgy works in dance. How you build up an
arc of suspense and what that has to do with
space and rhythm. How to create interesting
contrasts and how to deal with music and
movement.

This book covers all of that. You can open
it anywhere and get inspiration for the rehearsal
or class and expand your thought space. But you
can also focus on certain topics such as music
and movement. You can delve deeper into the
work of thematic development and structuring
of access development.

In total there are 120 studies and
exercises that you do not have to do one to one.
You can use the exercises as a suggestion and
develop them further in order to get on with
your dancing and choreography.

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