Dance Resources
Publications
Alayna’s First Ballet
Hello, my name is Alayna, and I am here to say, I come to learn to dance ballet and make new friends along the way.
Beginning Musical Theatre Dance With Web Resource
Beginning Musical Theatre Dance introduces students enrolled in their first musical theatre dance course to techniques, steps, and practices to prepare them for a future of on-stage performances. The text and web resource offer students what they need to know to audition, rehearse, perform, care for themselves, and have successful dance experiences.
Choreographers, Choreography, and Writing for Dance: An Introductory Reader
This book discusses a sampling of famous American choreographers and also shares many ideas for creating dances. The book also offers guidelines for discussing, writing about, and preserving dance. Geared towards secondary education students, this book is appropriate for readers in grades 8 and above. The book is divided into an introduction plus three main sections. The introduction gives an overview of the history of choreography in Western culture.
Dance & Culture: An Introductory Reader
Dance is more than learning steps; it is an interdisciplinary, multicultural subject that can teach students about the world around them. This illustrated dance textbook explores dance from around the world, their influence in the United States, and the importance of preserving these dances for future generations. Studying dances of other cultures aids in understanding of shared values and develops respect for the uniqueness of each dance style.
Dance Magazine
Dance Teacher Magazine
Human Kinetics
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National Core Arts Standards
Partnering Dance and Education. Intelligent Moves for Changing Times
The Healthy Dancer
The mission of The Healthy Dancer Blog is to aid the development of intelligent, thinking, healthy dancers and to draw attention to ways that dancers can improve their technique through cross-training, better nutrition and body awareness.
When a Boy’s Gotta Dance
Why would boys want to dance? Why would anyone want to dance? The argument prosecuted in this paper is that dance educators have tended to see dance as a self-evidently good thing with self-evident benefits for children who learn to dance. In other words, dance educators tend to concern themselves with why students should dance rather than why students want to dance or not dance. Instead, I propose that educators need also to think about how students, but particularly boys, experience, think and feel about dance here and now. But rather than offering an over-arching philosophy, I then discuss some practices from my own teaching research and practice which attempt to engage with young people’s experiences of dance. In short, my argument is that the content of dance education might just as profitably be concerned with the immediacy of pleasure and displeasure rather than dry, hopeful and formal educational objectives.