Release technique

Release technique is a movement practice that focuses on breathing, skeletal alignment, joint articulation, muscle relaxation, and the use of gravity and momentum to facilitate efficient movement. Release techniques can be found in modern and postmodern dance, in therapeutic movement techniques such as Feldenkrais and Alexander Technique, and in yoga and martial arts.

See also

• Skinner releasing technique
• Doris Humphrey

References

• Olsen, Andrea; Caryn McHose (2004). Bodystories. Lebanon NH: University Press of New England. ISBN 1-58465-354-X.
• Bainbridge-Cohen, Bonnie (1993). Sensing, Feeling and Action: The Experiential Anatomy of Body-Mind Centering. Northampton MA: Contact Editions.
• Johson, Don Hanlon (1995). Bone, Breath, Gesture: Practices of Embodiment. Berkeley CA: North Atlantic Books.
• Lepkoff, Daniel (1999). "What is Release Technique?" (PDF). Movement Performance Research Journal (19).

External links

• An article about release technique at contemporary-dance.org