Grade 3-8-This comprehensive guide, written by a teacher at Canada's National Ballet School, helps youngsters who love ballet to understand the hard work and commitment involved in classical dance training. Bowes opens with a discussion of the basics: choosing to dance, finding a teacher, evaluating...
Are you a preschool teacher, primary grade teacher or day-care provider who is looking for fun, imaginative activities that foster physical development, self-esteem and problem-solving skills? Are you a dance educator who is searching for new inspiration in teaching young children the concepts of...
The body has a special language of its own. The book encourages children to use that language and dance. The games here combine dance and play in ways that release a child's spontaneity and self-expression. Encourages children to develop their imaginations, social skills and coordination with a...
Visually stunning, and charged with energy, this photographic book takes readers on a tour of a unique place - Ballet Tech, the first public school for ballet. Here a youthful, urban sensibility is fused with classical art, creating dance with a new look and a new accessibility. "Kids Dance" shows a...
Contents: What is creative dance? - The elements of dance - The importance of creative dance - The goal - Imagery and dance - The method - The elements - The structure - Special dances - The priorities - Teaching with variety - Lessons based on elements - Lessons based on imagery - Responding to the...
Teaching Dance as Art in Education is a comprehensive introductory textbook that helps dance education majors and dance specialists understand and incorporate the aesthetic foundations of educational dance in grades K-12. Unlike other models of teaching dance, this book delineates what a...
Dance Teaching Methods and Curriculum Design presents a conceptual model of dance education that embraces dance as an art form and disseminates it through learning experiences in dancing, dance making, and dance appreciation. Through this book, dance educators will broaden their understanding of the...
As a dance pioneer, Margaret H'Doubler combines both vision and down to earth practicality. It is she who established danceh as a part of the college curriculum, organized the first campus performing group, and set up the first college degree program in dance.
The author brings together the fields of education, welfare, counselling and phychology in relation to dance teaching and training. She considers the ways these can deepen our understanding of the human dimension of dancing training, and how they can be practically applied in vocational training...
In "Knowing dance", marion Gough provides a general framework for understanding the many different aims, demands and constraints of teaching dance, and also suggests practical and creative ways of dealing with them. After considering the interaciton between teaching and learning, Gough looks at the...
