The Lester Horton Dance Technique – Cognition and musicality in dance education
The Lester Horton Dance Technique – Cognition and musicality in dance education

Summary/Abstract: Lester Horton was an American dancer, choreographer and teacher who lived, created and taught on the West Coast of the United States of America. He stands alongside Martha Graham, Merge Cunningham and Jose Limon, being the creator of one of the four modern dance training systems. His syllabus borrows elements from classical ballet, yoga, and many poses from the visual arts (sculptures and paintings). The Horton Technique is a very elaborate succession of exercises that create a long, flexible, lean, expressive dancer’s body. Lester Horton had students who later became great artists, such as Bella Lewizky, Carmen de Lavallade, James Truitteand, the most famous of them all, Alvin Ailey. The Horton technique is still being taught today at the Alvin Ailey School and in many other dance schools around the world. It is still one of the most relevant tools in the modern dance vocabulary of movement.

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