Attention and Focus in Dance

Attention and Focus in Dance

Author: Clare Guss-West

Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1492594458

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"The book presents a systematic, science-based approach to the mental work of dance, honing the skills of attention, focus, and optimal self-cueing to enhance physical and artistic performance, replenish energy, and increase stamina in dancers"--


Dance Psychology for Artistic and Performance Excellence

Dance Psychology for Artistic and Performance Excellence

Author: Taylor, Jim

Publisher: Human Kinetics

Published: 2015-06-02

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 145043021X

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Dance Psychology for Artistic and Performance Excellence helps dancers develop psychological strength to maximize their performance. The book covers the key mental aspects of dance performance and offers practical exercises that will make dancers’ minds their most powerful tools.


Brain-compatible Dance Education

Brain-compatible Dance Education

Author: Anne Green Gilbert

Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13:

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This classic "must have" is NDA's most popular publication. Includes locomotor/nonlocomotor movement, assessment, and interdisciplinary topics.


Dance and Gender

Dance and Gender

Author: Wendy Oliver

Publisher: University Press of Florida

Published: 2018-06-11

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 0813063450

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Driven by exacting methods and hard data, this volume reveals gender dynamics within the dance world in the twenty-first century. It provides concrete evidence about how gender impacts the daily lives of dancers, choreographers, directors, educators, and students through surveys, interviews, analyses of data from institutional sources, and action research studies. Dancers, dance artists, and dance scholars from the United States, Australia, and Canada discuss equity in three areas: concert dance, the studio, and higher education. The chapters provide evidence of bias, stereotyping, and other behaviors that are often invisible to those involved, as well as to audiences. The contributors answer incisive questions about the role of gender in various aspects of the field, including physical expression and body image, classroom experiences and pedagogy, and performance and funding opportunities. The findings reveal how inequitable practices combined with societal pressures can create environments that hinder health, happiness, and success. At the same time, they highlight the individuals working to eliminate discrimination and open up new possibilities for expression and achievement in studios, choreography, performance venues, and institutions of higher education. The dance community can strive to eliminate discrimination, but first it must understand the status quo for gender in the dance world. Wendy Oliver, professor of dance at Providence College, is coeditor of Jazz Dance: A History of the Roots and Branches. Doug Risner, professor of dance at Wayne State University, is coeditor of Hybrid Lives of Teaching Artists in Dance and Theatre Arts: A Critical Reader. Contributors: Gareth Belling | Karen Bond | Carolyn Hebert | Eliza Larson | Pamela S. Musil | Wendy Oliver | Katherine Polasek | Doug Risner | Emily Roper | Karen Schupp | Jan Van Dyke


The Student Dancer

The Student Dancer

Author: Julia Buckroyd

Publisher: Dance Books Limited

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13:

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Acknowledging the evidence that there is a high incidence of illness, smoking, injury and eating disorders amongst dance students, Julia Buckroyd argues that current dance training can be harmful and that a radically new approach is required.


Dance Imagery for Technique and Performance, Second Edition

Dance Imagery for Technique and Performance, Second Edition

Author: Eric N. Franklin

Publisher: Human Kinetics

Published: 2013-09-30

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 0873229436

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Franklin provides 583 imagery exercises to improve dance technique, artistic expression and performance. More than 160 illustrations highlight the images, and the exercises can be put to use in dance movement and choreography.


The Grand Union

The Grand Union

Author: Wendy Perron

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press

Published: 2020-09-08

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 0819579335

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The Grand Union was a leaderless improvisation group in SoHo in the 1970s that included people who became some of the biggest names in postmodern dance: Yvonne Rainer, Trisha Brown, Steve Paxton, Barbara Dilley, David Gordon, and Douglas Dunn. Together they unleashed a range of improvised forms from peaceful movement explorations to wildly imaginative collective fantasies. This book delves into the "collective genius" of Grand Union and explores their process of deep play. Drawing on hours of archival videotapes, Wendy Perron seeks to understand the ebb and flow of the performances. Includes 65 photographs.


Breadth of Bodies

Breadth of Bodies

Author: Emmaly Wiederholt

Publisher:

Published: 2022-03

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 9780998247816

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Breadth of Bodies seeks to investigate and dismantle the language and stereotypes often used to describe professional dancers with disabilities. Spearheaded by dancer/writer Emmaly Wiederholt and dance educator Silva Laukkanen with illustrations by visual artist Liz Brent-Maldonado, the team collected interviews with 35 professional dance artists with disabilities from 15 countries, asking about training, access, and press, as well as looking at the state of the field.


Big Deal

Big Deal

Author: Kevin Winkler

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2018-02-08

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 0199336814

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Bob Fosse (1927-1987) is recognized as one of the most significant figures in post-World War II American musical theater. With his first Broadway musical, The Pajama Game in 1954, the "Fosse style" was already fully developed, with its trademark hunched shoulders, turned-in stance, and stuttering, staccato jazz movements. Fosse moved decisively into the role of director with Redhead in 1959 and was a key figure in the rise of the director-choreographer in the Broadway musical. He also became the only star director of musicals of his era--a group that included Jerome Robbins, Gower Champion, Michael Kidd, and Harold Prince--to equal his Broadway success in films. Following his unprecedented triple crown of show business awards in 1973 (an Oscar for Cabaret, Emmy for Liza with a Z, and Tony for Pippin), Fosse assumed complete control of virtually every element of his projects. But when at last he had achieved complete autonomy, his final efforts, the film Star 80 and the musical Big Deal, written and directed by Fosse, were rejected by audiences and critics. A fascinating look at the evolution of Fosse as choreographer and director, Big Deal: Bob Fosse and Dance in the American Musical considers Fosse's career in the context of changes in the Broadway musical theater over four decades. It traces his early dance years and the importance of mentors George Abbott and Jerome Robbins on his work. It examines how each of the important women in his adult life--all dancers--impacted his career and influenced his dance aesthetic. Finally, the book investigates how his evolution as both artist and individual mirrored the social and political climate of his era and allowed him to comfortably ride a wave of cultural changes.


The Midnight Dance

The Midnight Dance

Author: Nikki Katz

Publisher: Swoon Reads

Published: 2017-10-17

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1250123712

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Seventeen-year-old Penny is a lead dancer at the Grande Teatro, a finishing school where she and eleven other young women are training to become the finest ballerinas in Italy. Tucked deep into the woods, the school is overseen by a mysterious and handsome young master who keeps the girls ensconced in the estate. But when flashes of memories of a life very different from the one she thinks she's been leading start to appear, Penny begins to question the world around her. With a kind and attractive kitchen boy, Cricket, at her side, Penny vows to escape the confines of her school and the strict rules she has to follow. But at every turn, the Master finds a way to stop her, and Penny must find a way to escape the school and uncover the secrets of her past before it's too late.