Guidelines in Contemporary Dance Training
Steps to Advancement
For Introductory, Elementary, and Intermediate Students
Three Complete Graham Technique Classes for Each Level
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Guidelines Video 1: The Floor Work (87 min)
Introductory
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Elementary
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Intermediate
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See the 12 minute Introduction
All Exercises include detailed technical direction by Phyllis Gutelius
Martha Graham Dance Company former leading dance using slo-motion, animations & freezes.
Guidelines Video 2: The Standing Work (76 min)
Introductory
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Elementary
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Intermediate
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12 Minute Introduction from the Martha Graham Technique video "Guidelines in Contemporary Dance Training 2"
Floor Exercises have a direct relationship to Standing Exercises at the Center, Barre, and Across the Floor
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Written Study Aids: The Workbooks
Provide Added Support for Beginner Students and Teacher
The Guidelines Workbook
by Phyllis Gutelius
The Floor-Work, which begins these three lessons, works to develop the torso of a dancer in the same way that sitting, kneeling and crawling prepares an infant to stand and walk.
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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.