Kategoria BISAC: Performing Arts >> Dance - Classical & Ballet

Dancers who want to get the most out of their experience in dance--whether in college, high school, a dance studio, or a dance company--can now take charge of their wellness. Dancer Wellness will help them learn and apply important wellness concepts as presented through the in-depth research conducted by the International Association for Dance Medicine & Science (IADMS) and their experts from around the world.

Four Primary Areas

Dancer Wellness covers four primary topics:

1. Foundations of dancer wellness, which explores the dancer's...

When a parent teaches you to trust no one and to never be vulnerable, will you ever be able to love?

For most of Francesca's life her ballet has been the only stable thing she's known, giving her a voice and enough self-confidence to deal with her verbally abusive dad, Phillip.

Now she's finally able to leave his dysfunctional home and is willing to sacrifice everything to take her younger sister, Jenny, with her.

But when she suddenly comes face to face with a situation, and a person, she cannot ignore, she soon realizes that not everything is...

The need to 'rethink' and question the nature of dance history has not diminished since the first edition of Rethinking Dance History. This revised second edition addresses the needs of an ever-evolving field, with new contributions considering the role of digital media in dance practice; the expansion of performance philosophy; and the increasing importance of practice-as-research. A two-part structure divides the book's contributions into:

- Why Dance History? - the ideas, issues and key conversations that underpin any study of the history of theatrical dance.

How can ballet teachers foster a dynamic environment of collaborative learning, curiosity, and creativity in their classrooms? How can they encourage their students to not only refine their technique, but to better understand themselves as dancers, informing technique with their own personalities and styles?

Creative Ballet Teaching draws on the fields of Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis (L/BMA), dance pedagogy, human development, and somatic education to explore these questions. Sample lesson plans, class exercises, movement explorations and journal writing activities...

The need to 'rethink' and question the nature of dance history has not diminished since the first edition of Rethinking Dance History. This revised second edition addresses the needs of an ever-evolving field, with new contributions considering the role of digital media in dance practice; the expansion of performance philosophy; and the increasing importance of practice-as-research. A two-part structure divides the book's contributions into:

- Why Dance History? - the ideas, issues and key conversations that underpin any study of the history of theatrical dance.

Performance exists only in the present, and when it is captured by the lens of a camera, a permanent memory is created.
These photos capture an inherent quality of creativity. A dancer brings natural talent, skills and presence to the stage and to each photograph, demonstrating how dance brings them to places only reached when one is in motion.

As much as we may enjoy Swan Lake or The Nutcracker, for many of us ballet is almost literally a foreign language. It communicates through movement, not words, and its history lies almost entirely abroad-in Russia, Italy, and France. In Celestial Bodies, dance critic Laura Jacobs makes the foreign familiar, providing a lively, poetic, and uniquely accessible introduction to the world of classical dance. Combining history, interviews with dancers, technical definitions,...