| Summaries and Customer Reviews are supplied by Amazon.com This all-inclusive guide to the art of creating dance moves and routines, written by the advisor and former dancer of the Martha Graham School and company, contains 247 projects that guide the user through a myriad of topics. Concepts and techniques such as form, sequencing, variation, surrealism, abstract movement, improvisation, ritual and ceremony, space, and floor patterns are examined and explained, encouraging the student to experiment and create with movement. Average Customer Rating: Original and thoroughly entertaining | Customer Rating: | | This is a book for anyone interested in CREATIVITY, in finding ideas in places completely unique. This is a map to jump start your brain. Not just for the students of choreography but a fun and exhaustive survey of ideas. A real find for writers, visual artists, composers, even though it was written for dance makers. For would-be and veteran dance makers of course, this book is a must. Stuart Hodes has been making dances teaching and performing for four decades with the best and the brightest, Martha Graham, Television, Broadway...He has done it all and has an encyclopedic memory and eye and ear for interesting detail. BLOCKED? Pick up this book! This book is worth every penny and will serve as a resource for years. | | |