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Aerial Dance: A Guide for Dance with Rope and Harness provides an introduction to aerial rope & harness that covers rigging, equipment, advice on optimal conditioning, and a step-by-step guide to aerial technique, including anatomical references, space/time considerations, and elements of force when working with/against gravity.
List of contents
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: The Rig
Chapter 2: Optimal Conditioning
Chapter 3: Turns and Inverting
Chapter 4: Motion and Agility
Chapter 5: Traveling Through Space
Chapter 6: Phrases
Chapter 7: Cool Down
Chapter 8: Wellness
Chapter 9: Into the Future
Conclusion
Dictionary of Terms
Answers to Safety Test
Acknowledgements
About the author
Jenefer Davies is the Associate Professor of Dance at Washington and Lee University and Artistic Director of the W&L Repertory Dance Company. Her choreography and performance work has toured to Spain, Greece, Scotland and throughout the United States. Davies founded the contemporary modern dance company, Progeny Dance, which has performed at Green Space and Dixon Place in Manhattan, and The Center for Performance Research in Brooklyn. She created one of the first academic programs in aerial dance in the country and teaches master classes in aerial rope & harness, bungee and silks. Her aerial dancers have performed at the Ailey Citigroup Theatre in NYC, at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington DC and from the rooftops of buildings on the Washington & Lee campus.
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Aerial Dance: A Guide for Dance with Rope and Harness provides an introduction to aerial rope & harness that covers rigging, equipment, advice on optimal conditioning, and a step-by-step guide to aerial technique, including anatomical references, space/time considerations, and elements of force when working with/against gravity.
