Conditioning for Dance

Auteur

Eric Franklin is director and founder of the Institute for Franklin Method in Wetzikon, Switzerland. He has more than 35 years of experience as a dancer and choreographer, and he has shared imagery techniques in his teaching since 1986.

Franklin has taught extensively throughout the United States and Europe at the Juilliard School in New York, Royal Ballet School in London, Danish Ballet in Copenhagen, Dance Academy of Rome, and Institute for Psychomotor Therapy in Zurich. He was also a guest lecturer at the University of Vienna. He has provided training to Olympic and world-champion athletes and professional dance troupes such as Cirque du Soleil and the Forum de Dance in Monte Carlo. Franklin earned a BFA from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and a BS from the University of Zurich. He has been on the faculty of the American Dance Festival since 1991.

Franklin is coauthor of the best-selling book Breakdance, which received a New York City Public Library Prize in 1984, and author of 100 Ideen für Beweglichkeit and Dance Imagery for Technique and Performance (both books about imagery in dance and movement). He is a member of the International Association for Dance Medicine and Science.

Franklin lives near Zurich, Switzerland.

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Conditioning for Dance, Second Edition, offers over 100 new conditioning exercises, for all parts of the body. It features two new chapters and a new web resource with video clips showing correct execution of the exercises, two 20-minute workouts, and a personal conditioning program.

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Conditioning for Dance, Second Edition, offers over 100 new conditioning exercises, for all parts of the body. It features two new chapters and a new web resource with video clips showing correct execution of the exercises, two 20-minute workouts, and a personal conditioning program.

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Chapter 1. Conditioning Concepts for Body and Mind

Chapter 2. Mental Techniques for Successful Performance

Chapter 3. Improving Balance and Stability

Chapter 4. Flexibility in the Muscles and Fascia

Chapter 5. Dynamic Alignment and the Pelvic Floor

Chapter 6. Creating a Strong Core and Powerful Abdominal Muscles

Chapter 7. Conditioning the Muscles of the Pelvis, Hip Joint, and Knee

Chapter 8. Creating Stable, Flexible, and Expressive Feet

Chapter 9. Developing Power in the Torso, Shoulders, and Arms

Chapter 10. Improving Turns, Jumps, and Turnout

Chapter 11. Elastic Band Centre Workout

Appendix. Franklin Method Equipment and Resources