Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery - 2nd Edition

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"Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery, Second Edition", shows how to use imagery, touch and movement exercises to improve co-ordination and alignment. These exercises also help relieve tension, enhance the health of the spine and back and prevent back injury. This expanded new edition contains more than 600 imagery exercises along with nearly 500 illustrations to help visualize the exercises and use them in various contexts. "Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery" enables readers to experience the biomechanical and anatomical principles that are crucial to dancers, other performing artists, yoga and Pilates teachers and practitioners and athletes. The techniques and exercises presented in the book act as a guide to improving posture and will have a positive affect on thoughts and attitude about oneself and others. You can discover flexibility and increase the power to move.

Eric Franklin is director and founder of the Franklin Institute in Uster, Switzerland. He has more than 35 years' experience as a dancer and choreographer, and he has shared imagery techniques in his teaching since 1986. 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 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. Franklin lives near Zurich, Switzerland.