Download or read book The Delsarte System of Physical Culture written by Eleanor Georgen and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Dynamic Breathing and Harmonic Gymnastics written by Genevieve Stebbins and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Delsarte System of Physical Culture Classic Reprint written by Eleanor Georgen and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-04 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Delsarte System of Physical Culture As mentioned above, we have, in the study of the Delsarte method, first the physical culture which teaches us the art of withdrawing the natural nervous force from the different members of the entire body and enables us to control that force by the action of the brain, and then to govern the muscles artistically, developing every set equally until the limbs assume an appearance of strength and symmetry and allow perfect freedom of action, which is synonymous with grace and beauty. It stands to reason that, if our muscles are free and flexible, all our movements will become correspondingly free, and we will feel new life and vigor through lack of restraint. It is like oiling machinery and then setting it in motion. The exercises of this system act as a health restorer. They are not violent, yet they are wonderfully strengthening by reason of the slowness of the movements. They induce proper habits of respiration and develop the chest admirably. They also serve to strengthen the back; and many people suffer from weak and 'painful backs because they unconsciously carry them selves badly at all times, but especially when walking, the chest being drawn in and the abdomen thrown forward, or else the chest and shoulders being held far back and the abdomen thrown forward. Either posture gives a dis tinct but reversed curve to the spine and throws the entire weight of the torso upon the muscles of the back. If the back is to be relieved of all strain and an erect, easy carriage acquired in walking, the chest must predominate and the hips be well drawn back; but those who have always carried themselves incorrectly will find it almost impossible to attain the proper action until the muscles have become flexible through the practice of the exercises which will be described farther on, and which, if faithfully performed, cannot fail to produce beneficial effects. As the exercises are of a soothing nature and regulate the nervous force, they are beneficial for nervousness, because they teach us repose - that bless ing possessed by so very few. Many people quickly tire themselves in performing their ordinary duties, because they lack repose and give certain muscles unnecessary work through bad habits acquired and through lack of proper exercise. These persons assert that they are not strong; in some cases this may be true, but in many more instances their weakness proceeds from a cause which might easily be removed. It is also true that many people donot relax their vital energy even in sleep, and as a consequence they do not receive as much benefit from sleep as do those who can give themselves up to perfect repose. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Macfadden s Encyclopedia of Physical Culture written by Bernarr Macfadden and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Delsarte system of expression written by Genevieve Stebbins and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Macfadden s Encyclopedia of physical culture v 2 1911 written by Bernarr Macfadden and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Delsartean physical culture written by Mrs. C. W. Le Favre and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Delsarte Speaker Or Modern Elocution written by Henry Davenport Northrop and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Eugenics and Physical Culture Performance in the Progressive Era written by Shannon L. Walsh and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-11-16 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book strives to unmask the racial inequity at the root of the emergence of modern physical culture systems in the US Progressive Era (1890s–1920s). This book focuses on physical culture – systematic, non-competitive exercise performed under the direction of an expert – because tracing how people practiced physical culture in the Progressive Era, especially middle- and upper-class white women, reveals how modes of popular performance, institutional regulation, and ideologies of individualism and motherhood combined to sublimate whiteness beneath the veneer of liberal progressivism and reform. The sites in this book give the fullest picture of the different strata of physical culture for white women during that time and demonstrate the unracialization of whiteness through physical culture practices. By illuminating the ways in which whiteness in the US became a default identity category absorbed into the “universal” ideals of culture, arts, and sciences, the author shows how physical culture circulated as a popular performance form with its own conventions, audience, and promised profitability. Finally, the chapters reveal troubling connections between the daily habits physical culturists promoted and the eugenics movement’s drive towards more reproductively efficient white bodies. By examining these written, visual, and embodied texts, the author insists on a closer scrutiny of the implicit whiteness of physical culture and forwards it as a crucial site of analysis for performance scholars interested in how corporeality is marshaled by and able to contest local and global systems of power.

Download or read book The Delsarte Elocutionist for 1896 written by Lillian Woodward Gunckel and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Genevieve Stebbins System of Physical Training written by Genevieve Stebbins and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Bibliography of Physical Training written by James Huff McCurdy and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Cultivation of Body and Mind in Nineteenth Century American Delsartism written by Nancy Ruyter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1999-09-30 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study chronicles the American adaptation of the theory and practice of the French acting, singing, and aesthetics teacher, Francois Delsarte. Delsartism was introduced in the United States by Steele Mackaye, Delsarte's only American student. American Delsartism, with its emphasis on physical culture and expression, differed significantly from Delsarte's works in France. The system evolved from professional training for actors and orators to a means of physical culture and expression that became popular among middle and upper class American women and girls. It allowed nineteenth-century women to pay attention to their bodies, to explore their own physicality, and to perform in a socially acceptable venues. In its later manifestations, Delsartism influenced the innovative dance of such artists as Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis, and Ted Shawn. Biographical information on the most notable figures in the development of American Delsartism is presented along with a discussion of the spread of Delsartism throughout the United States and to Germany. The Delsartean approach to training and expression is traced from Delsarte and Mackaye through the theory, teaching, and performance of Genevieve Stebbins, the most notable American proponent of the system. This work will appeal to scholars of dance history and of late nineteenth-century women's studies. Theater historians will appreciate the detailed account of the system as developed and taught by Steele Mackaye as training for actors. Although Delsartism has been acknowledged as relevant to the history of modern dance, scant information and research has previously been published which explores the movement in depth and discusses its importance to women's physical and cultural education in nineteenth-century America. Photographs illustrate the text and an extensive bibliography serves as a useful guide for further research.

Download or read book Delsarte System of Dramatic Expression written by Genevieve Stebbins and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Delsarte Recitation Book and Directory written by Elsie M. Wilbor and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Thomas Conservatory of Psycho physical Culture written by Julia Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Gymnastics a Transatlantic Movement written by Gertrud Pfister and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores, analyses, and explains divergent ideologies and practices of gymnastics in selected European nations. It reconstructs the ex- and import processes from Europe to America and determines the processes, interrelationships and transformations of these "transatlantic movements" in their new home country. The book offers a more complete understanding of the role of gymnastics and expressive movements in cultural and ideological transmission over time and identifies the impact of these concepts on American physical education, sports systems and sports cultures. The main focus of the book lies in the two decades before and after World War I. This concentration on a specific historical epoch allows us to identify parallel, but also different developments of the various forms of gymnastics and of the transfer and implementation processes. The volume covers the transfer and impact of German Turnen, Czech Sokol and the Delsarte system in North America. In addition, it traces the influences of French gymnastics in South America and describes the tours of the world-renowned Danish gymnastic reformer Nils Bukh in both Americas. A focus will be the "import" of gymnastics, but also on the adaption processes of these different concepts and their integration into the American culture. This book was previously published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.