Eric Franklin

Breathing for Peak Performance

Functional Exercises for Dance, Yoga, and Pilates

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Breathing for Peak Performance presents detailed anatomical information related to optimal breathing function and offers 35 breathing exercises. This text uses the famed Franklin Method, which combines movement, imagery, and touch to improve functional breathing technique.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Human Kinetics Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 72
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 149mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 146g
• ISBN-13: 9781492569671
• ISBN-10: 1492569674
• Artikelnr.: 53778293

Autorenporträt

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 degree from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and a BS degree 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.