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Choreography

Creating and Developing Dance for Performance

Kate Flatt

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English
The Crowood Press Ltd
01 September 2019
Choreography is the highly creative process of interpreting and coordinating movement, music and space in performance.

By tracing different facets of development and exploring the essential artistic and practical skills of the choreographer, this book offers unique insights for apprentice dance makers.

With key concepts and ideas expressed through an accessible writing style, the creative tasks and frameworks offered will develop new curiosity, understanding, skill and confidence.

AUTHOR:

Kate Flatt has over forty years' experience as a choreographer and choreography teacher.

She has worked nationally and internationally, choreographing in dance, text-based theatre, film, musicals, opera and notably on the original Les Misérables with the RSC.

Trained in ballet and contemporary dance, she has also travelled widely, researching vernacular dance forms in their traditional context. She has studied with Nina Fonaroff, Glen Tetley and Robert Cohan, and assisted Leonide Massine of the Ballets Russes early in her career.

She is a highly experienced teacher, mentor and guide to choreographers moving between a range of performance media at all stages of their careers.

SALES POINTS: .

A practical book exploring the development and essential artistic skills of the choreographer. .

Will be an ideal companion for dancers and dance students wanting to express their ideas through choreography. .

Packed with information on getting started; improvisation; context and stage geometry; movement as dance in time and space and much, much more. .

Superbly illustrated with 143 practical colour and black & white photographs and diagrams. .

Kate Flatt has over forty years' experience as a choreographer, mentor and teacher.

87 colour and 56 b/w photographs, 6 diagrams

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Imprint:   The Crowood Press Ltd
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 246mm,  Width: 189mm,  Spine: 13mm
Weight:   492g
ISBN:   9781785006111
ISBN 10:   1785006118
Pages:   176
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Unspecified

Kate Flatt has over forty years' experience as a choreographer and choreography teacher. She has worked nationally and internationally, choreographing in dance, text-based theatre, film, musicals, opera and notably on the original Les Miserables with the RSC. Trained in ballet and contemporary dance, she has also travelled widely, researching vernacular dance forms in their traditional context. She has studied with Nina Fonaroff, Glen Tetley and Robert Cohan, and assisted Leonide Massine of the Ballets Russes early in her career. She is a highly experienced teacher, mentor and guide to choreographers moving between a range of performance media at all stages of their careers.

Reviews for Choreography: Creating and Developing Dance for Performance

This book which reflects the wealth of experience, observations and learnings generously shared by Kate Flatt is a book I highly recommend to anyone wanting to create and seeking an expert lens into the craft. -- Vidya Patel, Choreographer, Sadler's Wells Young Associate 2020/22 * Choreographer, Sadler's Wells Young Associate 2020/22 *


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