Contemporary Dance Training, The Gutelius Class
THREE VIDEO COLLECTION
This collection offers a multi-faceted approach to training.
A well rounded understanding of what makes contemporary dance training unique. This work moves faster, covers different parts of training and has a more advanced vocabulary for advanced study.
Reviews of
Contemporary Dance Training,
The Gutelius Class
“Gutelius has given us a visual text book of contemporary dance in its most up-to-date, practical, and inspiring form.”
-Dance Magazine, Marian Horosko
“The perfect demonstrations make understanding easy. The result may seem as, up to now, the most instructive, fruitful, honest video edition concerning modern dance.”
-Ballet Journal tans Archief, Koln, Germany
“The sequences are clear and care is taken to explain sections of the class by constant voice over. These two videos should prove an interesting and worthwhile experience.”
-The Dancing Times, London, England
Free Written Study Aids With All Sets Provide Added Support for Beginner Students and Teachers
Study Plan for Contemporary Dance Training
by Phyllis Gutelius
“The challenge is to balance enthusiasm with care, eagerness with commons sense, and energy with clarity and knowledge.”
It is designed to develop the dancer’s body. Gradually, from exercise to exercise, range of movement will extend as different relationships to space and movement dynamics are explored.
The six divisions of the floor exercises focus on movement principles which reflect the broad range of movement that exists today in the vocabulary of contemporary dance. Contraction. Release, Spiral, Opposition, Duality … the terms are many and still generating.
Floor exercises have a direct relationship to exercises at the Center and Barre, just as the Center exercises relate to the Traveling exercises. This logical course is easy to understand, when one sees that Graham, like other innovators in contemporary dance continued throughout her career to develop her unique approach to movement, in classes structured to teach her dancers how to articulate their bodies in specific ways.