Experience the raw energy and aesthetic beauty of dance as you perfect your technique with Dance Anatomy. Featuring hundreds of full-color illustrations, this comprehensive guide presents over 100 effective dance, movement, and performance exercises. Designed to promote correct alignment, improved placement, proper breathing, and prevention of common injuries, these detailed exercises capture the dancer in motion and highlight active muscles associated with each movement. You will clearly see how muscular development translates into greater poise and elegance on the stage.

Each chapter addresses a key principle of movement, beginning at the center of the body where dance originates. Learn targeted exercises to enhance flexibility and ensure safety for specific areas such as shoulders and arms, pelvis, and lower legs. Discover more efficient ways to improve your lines and technique by implementing a supplementary conditioning program that considers your changing cycles of classes, practices, and times of rest.

Whether you are at the beginner or advanced level, Dance Anatomy will help you master impeccable balance, intense muscular control, and grace, preparing you for your next leading role!

Publication Date: November 29, 2017

Print Length: 272 pages

Publisher: Human Kinetics

ISBN-10: 1492545171

ISBN-13: 978-1492545170