Dance Imagery for Technique and Performance
""""Using imagery brings a greater richness to a dancer's physical technique and expression, and Franklin's book furnishes the creative tools to accomplish this."""Jeanette StonerDancer, choreographer, and teacherNew York City """Every dancer goes through temporary slumps when it seems hard to find inspiration and when even maintenance is a struggle. Franklin's book combines information and creativity in a way that lends freshness to steps worked on for years. It provides a resource for renewal--a companion, master teacher at your fingertips."""June BalishDancer, New York City """In his exceedingly interesting and original Dance Imagery for Technique and Performance, Eric Franklin has resourcefully drawn from the inner world of imagined experience a rich variety of incentives for feeling movement from the depths of one's being. Images called into action, have the power to release a dancer's full potential."""Ernestine StodelleAdjunct Professor, New York UniversityAuthor of The Dance Technique of Doris Humphrey and Its Creative Potential and Deep Song: The Dance Story of Martha Graham """Dance Imagery for Technique and Performance by Eric Franklin, an excellent text for students and teachers, introduces the science of kinetics to teaching and performance. Dancers, teachers, and choreographers will find themselves using this book over and over again."""David Howard, DirectorDavid Howard School of Ballet, New York City "