1st Edition

Aerial Dance A Guide to Dance with Rope and Harness

By Jenefer Davies Copyright 2018
    192 Pages
    by Routledge

    192 Pages
    by Routledge

    Aerial Dance: A Guide to Dance with Rope and Harness provides an introduction for the beginning aerialist. It covers rigging, equipment, advice on optimal conditioning, and a step-by-step guide to technique, including anatomical references, space and time considerations, and elements of force when working with and against gravity. Specific movements and choreography are framed anatomically and together reflect the pattern and order of an aerial technique class. Challenges inherent to this type of dancing are discussed, as well as wellness instruction and methods of altering these techniques for intermediate and advanced dancing. A companion website hosts video that corresponds with the technique and phrasing in the book.

    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

    Biography

    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.