Suki Schorer on Balanchine Technique

by Schorer, Suki

• ISBN13: 9780813029771
• ISBN10: 0813029775
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-03-22
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Florida

Summary

When still a young dancer in the New York City Ballet, Suki Schorer was chosen by George Balanchine to lecture, demonstrate, and teach-he recognized in her that rare dancer who not only performs superbly but can also successfully pass along what she knows to others. InSuki Schorer on Balanchine Technique,she commits to paper the fruit of her twenty-four-year collaboration with Balanchine in a close examination of his technique for teachers, scholars, and advanced students of the ballet. Schorer discusses the crucial work at the barre as well as center work, port de bras, pointework, jumps, partnering, and more. Her recollections of her own tutelage under Balanchine and her brilliant use of scores of his remarks about dancing and dancers lend both authority and intimacy to this extraordinary analysis of Balanchiners"s legacy to the future of dance. Abundantly illustrated throughout with instructional photographs featuring members of the New York City Ballet, this book will serve as an indispensable testament to Balanchiners"s ideas on technique and performance.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Preface	xiii
Introduction	3	(16)
From the Studio to the Stage	19	(30)
Barre Work	49	(92)
The Upper Body	141	(84)
Pointework and Related Releve	225	(64)
Jumps	289	(94)
Partnering	383	(34)
Afterword	417	(2)
Technical Cross-reference	419