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The Grand Jeté En Tournant Entrelacé (Tour Jeté): An Analysis Through Motion Photography
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 July 2014
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The medium of dance can refine its own instrument; the dancer gains fuller possession and utility of the body, of sensibilities, the uniqueness of total self. The rational and intuitive begin to flow freely into each other; the equipment becomes more subtle. Dance can thus be one more way, and a potent one, of enabling a human being to command more fully his powers.
Philosophical statements such as this exemplify the emphasis the dancer must put upon the ideal as well as upon the practical application of the real. Dance technique, how-ever, exhibits the gap between fact and theory. Today, the dance instructor has available literature related to kinesiology and research methods that could be of help to improve the theory underlying dance technique; but it appears that full advantage has not been taken of these resources to correct existing errors in technique.
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