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Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery Paperback – 20 May 1996

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Destined to become a classic text and reference, "Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery" shows you how to use imaging techniques to improve posture and alignment and release excess tension. The book's 195 illustrations will help you visualize the images and exercises and show you how to use them in a variety of contexts. Part I of "Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery" discusses the origins and uses of imagery and includes 36 exercises that demonstrate dynamic alignment in practice. You'll explore the importance of posture and dynamic alignment and discover how to use imagery to affect body movement. Part II explains the biomechanical and anatomical principles behind complex imagery and illustrates 52 exercises to bring these principles to life. You'll learn how to use basic physics to create a strong yet fluid balance in your muscles and joints. Part III provides 250 anatomical imagery exercises to help you fine-tune alignments and increase body awareness. The exercises focus on different regions of the body - the pelvis, hips, knees, lower legs, spine, shoulders, arms, hands, head, and neck - as well as on breathing. You can select specific images to address individual needs or follow the sequence presented in the book. And Part IV provides 23 holistic exercises to sculpt and improve alignment in various positions - standing, supine, and sitting. These exercises will help you establish a body image that facilitates dynamic alignment and releases excess tension. By practicing the techniques described in "Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery", you'll tap into the power of imagery and create better movement.
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    232 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Human Kinetics Publishers
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    20 May 1996
  5. Dimensions
    21.59 x 1.88 x 27.94 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    0873224752
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0873224758
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"""The use of imagery to improve human alignment and movement has been practiced by relatively few adherents, most of them professionals. Now, with Eric Franklin's book Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery, the technique of using imagery is made clear for the general public as well for professionals. Franklin is to be commended for bringing this important work to a wider audience."""
Andre Bernard
Adjunct Assistant Professor Dance Education
New York University
"""This is a charming and humorous synthesis of ideas contained in the writings of Mabel Todd, Lulu Sweigard, Barbara Clark, and their students."""
Irene Dowd
Faculty, The Juilliard School
Guest Faculty, The National Ballet School of Canada
"""The main purpose of body alignment in dance is to create efficient control of movement. Eric Franklin's book Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery equips readers with the basic knowledge and exercises to achieve a clear and useful alignment."""
Zvi Gotheiner
Choreographer and Teacher, New York City
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Eric Franklin has more than 20 years' experience as a dancer and choreographer. In addition to earning a BFA from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and a BS from the University of Zurich, he has studied and trained with some of the top movement imagery specialists around the world and used this training as a professional dancer in New York. Franklin has shared imaging techniques in his teaching since 1986. He is founder and director of the Institute for Movement Imagery Education in Lucerne, Switzerland, and professor of postgraduate studies at the Institute for Psychomotor Therapy in Zurich, Switzerland. He is a guest professor at the University of Vienna (Musikhochschule) and has been on the faculty of the American Dance Festival since 1991. Franklin teaches at universities, dance centers, and dance festivals in the United States and througout Europe. Franklin is coauthor of the bestselling book Breakdance, which received a New York City Public Library Prize in 1984, and author of 100 Ideen fur Beweglichkeit and Dance Imagery for Technique and Performance (both books about imagery in dance and movement). He is a member of the International Association of Dance Medicine and Science.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Human Kinetics Publishers (20 May 1996)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 232 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0873224752
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0873224758
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 21.59 x 1.88 x 27.94 cm
  • Customer Reviews:
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Eric Franklin is the founder and director of the Franklin Method. He created the Method over 25 years ago, first teaching in Switzerland, Germany and Austria and further in the USA, China, Japan and many other countries. He earned his BS from the University of Zurich and his Bachelor of Fine Arts at the New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Eric teaches at universities and schools throughout the world including the Juilliard School in New York, Rutgers University, the University of Vienna, the Royal Ballet School and the Laban Center in London. He has taught Beyonce’s & Celine Dion’s world tour dance companies. In 1998 he introduced the first dance conditioning methodology to mainland China.

Eric presents his work at numerous conferences, such as the World Congress for Lower Back and Pelvic Pain, the Pilates Method Alliance and the International Association for Dance Medicine and Science. Eric Franklin is author 21 books, including of Dynamic Alignment through Imagery (2012), Dance Imagery for Technique and Performance (2013), Relax your Neck – Liberate your Shoulders (2002), Pelvic Power (2003), Inner Focus, Outer Strength (2006) and Beautiful Body, Beautiful Mind (2009). Eric Franklin’s books have been translated into German, Italian, Spanish, Polish, French, Czech, Chinese and Korean.

Franklin has taught extensively throughout the United States and Europe at the Julliard School in New York, the Royal Ballet School in London, the Danish Ballet in Copenhagen, the Dance Academy of Rome, and the Institute for Psychomotor Therapy in Zurich; he was also a guest lecturer at the University of Vienna. He has provided training to Olympic and world-champion athletes and professional dance troupes such as Cirque du Soleil and the Forum de Dance in Monte Carlo. Franklin earned a BFA from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and a BS from the University of Zurich. He has been on the faculty of the American Dance Festival since 1991.

Franklin lives near Zurich, Switzerland.

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Cloclo1900
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in Canada on 26 April 2017
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Book in good condition, no marks or damage at all. So, good value for the price.
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Jeannine Otchis
5.0 out of 5 stars For Dancers, Would-Be Dancers, Yoga Students, Physical Therapists and Massage Therapists
Reviewed in the United States on 5 February 2012
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Eric Franklin takes the works of Mabel Todd (The Thinking Body) and Andre Bernard (Ideokinesis) to another level. He references them and has adapted many of his exercises using their concepts. The sketches are delightful and whimsical, but he also encourages you to develop your own imagery. The book is filled with anatomy, alignment, and exercises. He encourages you to do your own self-evaluations with developing self-awareness. A great book that I repeatedly use along with his other books.
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C. Piermario
4.0 out of 5 stars Molto interessante per chi si occupa di bodywork e movimento
Reviewed in Italy on 4 April 2013
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Mi è stato raccomandato anni fa da colleghi americani. Con "Job's Body" di Deane Juhan e "Anatomy Trains" do Thomas Myers è un testo che figura nella libreria di molti bodyworker anglofoni. Ci ho messo un bel po' a terminare la sua lettura, perché ho avuto tempo per verificare in pratica quanto esposto e per integrarlo nella mia attività. Non tutto è ovvio e su alcune tesi non mi ritrovo d'accordo e alcune parti sono assai "cerebrali", per me. Tuttavia questo testo è molto stimolante e di notevole ispirazione e ne raccomando la lettura e la sperimentazione a tutti coloro che si occupano di espressione artistica, educazione al movimento e bodywork.
Mi auguro che qualche editore coraggioso lo traduca e lo pubblichi in Italia.
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Mr. M. L. Rose
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 November 2009
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I have purchased over 10 copies of this book. The first was for myself and the rest have been gifts for other people.

My Pilates teacher recommended this book. I particularly used the visualisation exercises for alignment of the knee. A few months later my life-long knee problem had evaporated. Sounds simple, but it was not. The exercises were the starting point, and required real persistence to keep on using them together with Pilates all the time I was walking, standing or running.

Each part of the body is reviewed from the perspective of movement. Joints are explained with good clear diagrams. Visualisations are introduced with many practical exercises in step by step detail.

This book is NOT the solution to all problems with body movement, but it is a good book and I recommend it.
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DeeGee
5.0 out of 5 stars Just What I Was Looking For
Reviewed in the United States on 23 April 2013
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As a Dance/Movement Therapist working with various populations/settings, I find this resource excellent and very applicable to my clients - most not dancers. Thank You...I will pursue the publisher to get worksheets, lessons, CD's that might be available for student study. That was my only disappointment with the product....I thought these would come with my purchase and didn't.
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