Designed specifically for dancers and movement educators, this manual provides drawings and names of anatomical structures to form a coherent presentation of basic anatomy and its relationship to movement. Anatomy of the Moving Body is a complete, lecture-based course in bones, muscles, and joints designed specifically for dancers and movement educators. With 31 elegantly illustrated chapters, each covering a distinct region of the body, Dimon simultaneously demystifies and brings to life the structure and mechanics of the human body. For movement educators who are putting together their own courses on anatomy and require a basic manual to work from, Anatomy of the Moving Body provides not only drawings and names of anatomical structures, but written lectures which tie the material together into a coherent series of presentations. Discussed in detail are etymology of anatomical terms; origins and attachments of muscles and related actions; discussion of major functional structures such as the pelvis, shoulder girdle, ankle, and hand; major landmarks and human topography; and structures related to breathing and vocalisation. 'Anatomy of the Moving Body is a suberb book for students and teachers alike. Ted Dimon's work is straightforwardly written, beautifully illustrated, and put forth with a sensibility of one who understands not simply how we are orgainsed, but how our structure is able to move with grace and beauty. The conversational tone makes the book accessible, and the information is conveyed always with a sense not only of where things lie, but how they can operate most harmoniously' - Dancer and Choreographer, January 2001. 'More than just clear, concise, and accurate, Dimon's Anatomy of the Moving Body also wonderfully expresses the joy of musculoskeletal anatomic understanding - its marvelous vocabulary and endlessly fascinating relations of structure and function' - John H.M. Austin, M.D., Professor of Radiology, Columbia University. Theodore Dimon Ed.D. directs the Dimon School for the Alexander Technique in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He became certified to teach the Alexander Technique at London's Constructive Teaching Centre in 1983, and received both his master's and doctorate degrees in Education from Harvard University. A founding director of the North American Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique (NASTAT), he has served for the past nine years as President of the Alexander Technique Archives, a non-profit organisation that promotes research and scholarship on the Technique. He is the author of The Undivided Self: Alexander Technique & the Control of Stress.

255 x 205mm

175pp

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Anatomy/Physiology      Western medicine