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From the desk of James Reel on Tuesday, November 27th 2007 at 7:02

DANCING BOWS

    OK, here’s one for a very small audience: my piece in the current issue of Strings about bowing technique:

    The ancient Greeks knew of four elements: earth, air, fire, water. The periodic table of elements is a lot more crowded these days, but many dancers still reduce everything to four elements of their own: weight, space, time, flow. That’s what 20th-century dance theorist Rudolf Laban emphasized in his study of movement.
    These elements could apply to string playing, too. What is bowing but a dance on a wire by wood and horsehair partnered by your arm? Janine Riveire, an associate professor of music at Cal Poly Pomona, has adapted Laban’s theories to help you bow like a dancer.
    If you have obscure interests, you can read the rest here.

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