School of Music and Choreographic Art. Textbook. SPO

The author of the book is Anatoly Alexandrovich Sapogov, an outstanding Russian dancer and teacher, a former soloist of the Mariinsky (Kirov) theater, Honored Artist of Russia, Professor of St. Petersburg State University.
The book gives the foundations of two most important disciplines: classical and folk-stage dance. The manual discusses the anatomical, physiological and psychological patterns of figurative and expressive movements. The author in detail analyzes the work of various groups of muscles and levers of the dancer’s apparatus in the performance of all kinds of dance movements, explains in detail how, based on the knowledge of the laws of biomechanics, to learn to consciously control his body in the dance and achieve maximum musical and cascial expressiveness. The book is supplemented by drawings of the author and musical material.
The book will be interesting to teachers and students of secondary specialized educational institutions