Release technique
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Release technique is an umbrella term that encompasses a variety of different practices that emphasis economy of movement by not holding more tension neccesary for the movement. In order to achieve this, release practices often emphasise breath, alignment and momentum.
Release work appears as part of a somatic paradigm, whereby subjective, internal experience of the body is valued alongside objective, analytical outside view of it.
The development of release technique has strands in theraputic movement techniques, such as Feldenkrais, Alexander Technique, Cranio-Sacral Therapy etc.; and also from dance-specific practices, drawing from Modern and Postmodern dance, included practitioners Eric Hawkins, Doris Humphreys and Mary O'Donnell Fulkerson.
[edit] See also
- Skinner releasing technique
- Contact Improvisation
- Mabel Todd
- Body-Mind Centering
- Experiental Anatomy
[edit] References
Olsen, Andrea; Caryn McHose (2004). Bodystories. Lebanon NH: University Press of New England. ISBN 158465354X. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=oEb4DEZPYPsC&lpg=PP1&dq=bodystories%20olsen&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=&f=false. Bainbridge-Cohen, Bonnie (1993). Sensing, Feeling and Action: The Experiential Anatomy of Body-Mind Centering. Northampton MA: Contact Editions. ISBN 0937645031. http://www.contactquarterly.com/ce/ce06.html.
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