Body Movement: Coping with the Environment by Irmgard Bartenieff,Dori Lewis

By Irmgard Bartenieff,Dori Lewis

"'Irmgard Bartenieff has a profound wisdom of the human physique and the way it strikes. i'm extremely joyful that it will now be made on hand to many extra people.'." -- George Balanchine of Director, big apple urban Ballet
"'Irmgard Bartenieff's pioneering paintings within the a number of functions of Labananalysis has had a remodeling impression on many parts of flow education. Her cautious and special improvement of the spatial rules into energetic corrective paintings has illuminated and changed the educational of individuals as various as dancers, choreographers, actual therapists, stream and dance therapists, and psychotherapists. Anthropologists and non-verbal conversation researchers have discovered their global view unavoidably altered by way of her basic suggestions. the sector of body/mind paintings might want to adapt to incorporate her transparent operating via of easy principles.'." -- Kayla Kazahn Zalk of President, American Dance Guild

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