Moving from Within

Moving from Within
Author: Alma M. Hawkins
Publisher: A Cappella Books (IL)
Total Pages: 170
Release: 1991
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN:

A master dance teacher describes her method for teaching creative movement and choreography ; discusses creativity and how dance performance has been influenced by the other arts. Includes exercises for dancers.

Making Video Dance

Making Video Dance
Author: Katrina McPherson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2013-02-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 113418154X

Since the advent of digital video technology, ’dance on camera’ has become an increasingly popular, and important genre of dance. This is the first ever ’how-to’ manual for choreographers, dancers and students who want to make dance films. Specifically written from a personal experience of a complete lack of printed material to help beginners get started, Katrina McPherson has produced an exemplary text which combines practical help with aesthetic discussion in an anecdotal and accessible style. Making Video Dance includes: exercises to be used inside, or outside the classroom a production diary interviews with leading practitioners on both sides of the camera. Also including a glossary of terms, anyone involved in making dance videos needs this helpful and remarkable book.

Choreography

Choreography
Author: Kate Flatt
Publisher: The Crowood Press
Total Pages: 405
Release: 2019-07-22
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1785006126

Choreography is the highly creative process of interpreting and coordinating movement, music and space in performance. By tracing different facets of development and exploring the essential artistic and practical skills of the choreographer, this book offers unique insights for apprentice dance makers. With key concepts and ideas expressed through an accessible writing style, the creative tasks and frameworks offered will develop new curiosity, understanding, skill and confidence. The chapters cover the key areas of engagement including what is a choreographer; getting started; improvisation and ideas; context, stage geometry and atmosphere; movement as dance in time and space; solo, duet, trio and group choreography and finally, structure and the 'choreographic eye'. This is an ideal companion for dancers and dance students wanting to express their ideas through choreography and develop their skills to effectively articulate them in performance. It is superbly illustrated with 143 practical colour and black & white photographs and diagrams. Kate Flatt has over forty years' experience as a choreographer, mentor and teacher.

Dancing in Thatha's Footsteps

Dancing in Thatha's Footsteps
Author: Srividhya Venkat
Publisher: Yali Publishing LLC
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2021-06-30
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 194952888X

On Sundays, Varun has his karate lesson, and his sister Varsha heads to dance school with their grandfather. One weekend, Varun reluctantly accompanies his sister to her lesson. Bored of waiting, he peeks into the classroom, and almost immediately, he is fascinated by the rhythm and grace of bharatanatyam, a dance from India that Varsha is learning to perfect. Varun tries a few moves at home in secret because...well, boys don’t dance, do they? His grandfather is not so sure. Will Thatha be able to convince Varun to dance in his footsteps? A heartwarming picture book about a multigenerational Indian-American family discovering a shared love for bharatanatyam, an ancient classical dance that continues to fascinate dancers worldwide.

The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Wellbeing

The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Wellbeing
Author: Vassiliki Karkou
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 1009
Release: 2017
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0199949298

In recent years, a growth in dance and wellbeing scholarship has resulted in new ways of thinking that place the body, movement, and dance in a central place with renewed significance for wellbeing. The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Wellbeing examines dance and related movement practices fromthe perspectives of neuroscience and health, community and education, and psychology and sociology to contribute towards an understanding of wellbeing, offer new insights into existing practices, and create a space where sufficient exchange is enabled. The handbook's research components includequantitative, qualitative, and arts-based research, covering diverse discourses, methodologies, and perspectives that add to the development of a complete picture of the topic. Throughout the handbook's wide-ranging chapters, the objective observations, felt experiences, and artistic explorations ofpractitioners interact with and are printed alongside academic chapters to establish an egalitarian and impactful exchange of ideas.

Dance Education around the World

Dance Education around the World
Author: Charlotte Svendler Nielsen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2015-04-21
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317801946

Dance has the power to change the lives of young people. It is a force in shaping identity, affirming culture and exploring heritage in an increasingly borderless world. Creative and empowering pedagogies are driving curriculum development worldwide where the movement of peoples and cultures generates new challenges and possibilities for dance education in multiple contexts. In Dance Education around the World: Perspectives on Dance, Young People and Change, writers across the globe come together to reflect, comment on and share their expertise and experiences. The settings are drawn from a spectrum of countries with contributions from Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, Asia, the Pacific and Africa giving insights and fresh perspectives into contrasting ideas, philosophies and approaches to dance education from Egypt to Ghana, Brazil to Finland, Jamaica to the Netherlands, the UK, USA, Australia, New Zealand and more. This volume offers chapters and narratives on: Curriculum developments worldwide Empowering communities through dance Embodiment and creativity in dance teaching Exploring and assessing learning in dance as artistic practice Imagined futures for dance education Reflection, evaluation, analysis and documentation are key to the evolving ecology of dance education and research involving individuals, communities and nations. Dance Education around the World: Perspectives on Dance, Young People and Change provides a great resource for dance educators, practitioners and researchers, and pushes for the furtherance of dance education around the world. Charlotte Svendler Nielsen is Assistant professor and head of educational studies at the Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports, research group Body, Learning and Identity, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Stephanie Burridge lectures at Lasalle College of the Arts and Singapore Management University, and is the series editor for Routledge Celebrating Dance in Asia and the Pacific.

Creative Dance for All Ages 2nd Edition

Creative Dance for All Ages 2nd Edition
Author: Gilbert, Anne Green
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2015-01-28
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1450480942

This second edition of the classic text directs dance teachers through what they need to know to teach creative dance from pre-K through adult levels in a variety of settings. It includes a sequential curriculum, lesson plans, editable forms, and teacher strategies created by master teacher Anne Green Gilbert.

Supervision of Dance Movement Psychotherapy

Supervision of Dance Movement Psychotherapy
Author: Helen Payne
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2008-08-18
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1134124503

Supervision of Dance Movement Psychotherapy explores the supervisory process in the psychotherapeutic practice of movement and dance. International contributors discuss how body language plays an important part in the supervisory experience.