Creative Dance for All Ages
By Anne Green Gilbert
Provide quality creative dance experiences for students of all ages and abilities. With a long history as a leading resource for dance educators, Creative Dance for All Ages, Third Edition With HKPropel Access, is the research-backed tool every creative dance teacher needs.
Internationally recognized master teacher and author Anne Green Gilbert presents creative dance for everyone and provides tips on meeting the challenges of teaching it.
The updated third edition features new full-color photos illustrating key concepts, an easy-to-navigate format to quickly access lesson planning and assessment tools. It includes suggestions for modifying lessons to include students of all abilities and class management tips to implement on day one
An unparalleled resource for dance educators of all experience levels, Creative Dance for All Ages provides the theory, methods, and lesson ideas that will set teachers up to provide the best possible creative dance experience.
Related online tools delivered through HKPropel include a variety of resources that can be implemented in the classroom or studio including 55 age-appropriate and brain-compatible lesson plans, 11 videos demonstrating the lesson plans and teaching strategies and how to put them to work in the classroom and studio
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Dance Partnering Basics
Practical Skills and Inclusive Pedagogy
By Brandon Whited
Dance Partnering Basics: Practical Skills and Inclusive Pedagogy With HKPropel Access presents easy-to -implement, techniquebased partnering instruction for dancers of all ages. The exercises and techniques, which are broken down into parts and presented in a skill progression, from beginner to advanced, can be applied to a variety of dance forms.
The book offers a plethora of tools to help dance educators in providing expert partnering instruction including 18 illustrated exercises that teach techniques, mechanics, and individual partnered skills; each exercise includes additional variations and explorations. Also included are tips for developing a partnering component and integrating it into an existing dance program or curriculum
Related online materials delivered via HKPropel, including video clips demonstrating partnering exercises, vocabulary, questions for discussion and reflection, and assessments and rubrics to help assess student progress
The text uses an inclusive, nongendered approach to dance partnering, as opposed to the traditional male and female roles. Instead of using man/woman labels in the instructions, author Brandon Whited uses terminology such as partner A/partner B,leader/follower, and supported partner/supportive partner. This approach gives a broad appeal to dance partnering.
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396 pages
AUD$: 118.00
280 X 220 mm
Release Date: March 2024
9781492598060
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160 pages
AUD$: 142.00
Choreography
A Basic Approach Using Improvisation
By Sandra Cerny Minton
Choreography: A Basic Approach Using Improvisation has long been a recognized standard in the field of dance education, and its fourth edition is replete with new and updated material and tools that will help students develop their skills in each step of the choreographic experience, from finding an idea to staging the performance.
You can use it to guide your students through the creative and choreographic processes, applying instructional strategies such as problem solving, updated technology integration, and connections to dance education standards.
It also includes problem-solving exercises to focus student thinking on the explorations and experiences they encountered in the chapter. Factual and conceptual aspects of the chapter activities are then addressed in follow-up questions, helping to engage students in critical thinking.
The new web resource will further students' creative and professional development in choreography. This resource contains video clips that show creative and choreographic processes presented in the book, editable forms and checklists that students can use, assignments that students can complete, and web links and resources for further study.
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Release Date: January 2018
9781492540120
Dance Composition Basics 2/e
By Pamela Anderson Sofras
If the saying "To be the best, you must learn from the best" holds true, then this book is gold for all aspiring dancers. Dance Composition Basics, Second Edition, doesn't just feature the works and brilliance of dance and choreographic legends Alonzo King and Dwight Rhoden it is completely based on the choreographic operations and forms in three of their original works: Chants and Dreamer by King and Verge by Rhoden.
All compositional exercises in the book are based on those three works, and the book itself is expertly crafted by Pamela Anderson Sofras, who has 34 years of experience teaching dance at the university level. Dance Composition Basics, designed for beginning dance composition courses, introduces dancers to choreography through a series of problem-solving activities. The activities are starting points for novice dancers to embark on their own attempts at choreography.
The book offers several useful tools for instructors including 27 lesson plans that draw from and highlight selected portions of original compositions by King and Rhoden, 33 reproducible assessment and self-evaluation forms, an instructor guide that includes a sample course syllabus plus written exams for each chapter and PowerPoint presentations to guide students through each lesson.
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200 pages
AUD$: 86.99
279 X 216 mm
Release Date: May 2019
9781492571254
Paperback
176 pages
AUD$: 136.00
Dance Composition
An Interrelated Arts Approach
By Janice Pomer
Dance Composition: An Interrelated Arts Approach helps students investigate dance movement from a multidisciplinary perspective something that no other dance text or package does. The exercises examine traditional and contemporary art forms from around the world and explore ways to physically interpret what is heard, seen, spoken, and emoted through movement experimentation. Through these exercises, students observe a concept, explore it by working independently and watching others, and reflect on it with others. They then create and present a choreographic work based on their explorations and reflections. The choreography is discussed in a final group reflection and personal journal entries in which students can document their findings for future use.
More Dance Improvisations
By Justine Reeve
More Dance Improvisations builds on the success of its predecessor, Dance Improvisations, and offers 78 brand-new activities that have been tested and refined by author Justine Reeve, a veteran dance instructor and choreographer. This text offers a wealth of creative ideas that instructors can use to help their dancers explore and experience movement. The 78 improvisation tasks and exercises support all portions of a dance class, from improvisation lessons, warm-ups, and games that stimulate creativity to choreographic tasks for creating movement material. These new activities will provide an invaluable source of creative ideas for all dancers, including those who are exploring their own professional practice. More Dance Improvisations offers expert instruction in planning, teaching, and assessing students' improvisations; a choreographic toolkit and glossary of dance and choreographic terms; step-by-step instruction and teaching tips.
Exploring Dance Forms and Styles
A Guide to Concert, World, Social, and Historical Dance
By Helene Scheff, Marty Sprague
Exploring Dance Forms and Styles: A Guide to Concert, World, Social, and Historical Dance helps all teachers introduce students to a variety of dance forms and styles without having to leave the classroom! Exploring Dance Forms and Styles: A Guide to Concert, World, Social, and Historical Dance presents a systematic approach for building four critical thinking skills in dance: Viewing: What did you see? Connecting: What do you know? Responding: What do you think? What do you wonder? And Performing: What can you do?
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208 Pages
Rel Date: April 2009
9780736067904
AUD$: 103.00
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230 X 150 mm
200 Pages
Rel Date: December 2023
9781718222427
AUD$: 76.99
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279 X 216 mm
344 Pages
Rel Date: May 2010
9780736080231
AUD$: 137.00
Dance Anatomy and Kinesiology
By Karen Clippinger
Karen Clippinger's first two editions of Dance Anatomy and Kinesiology were hailed as the standard in the field. This third edition builds on that success by retaining its scientific perspective while making the material even more accessible to students and teachers and by bringing in a significant amount of new material.
In an effort to further enhance learning, Dance Anatomy and Kinesiology offers a wealth of new material and tools to make this edition the best yet: Nearly 300 anatomical illustrationsnow in full color to clearly show muscle movements and technique considerations, setting the book apart from others in its field and a new introductory chapter to cover basic terminology all in one place.
A new recurring Understanding Check element that helps students demonstrate their grasp of the material before moving on and an updated suite of online instructor and student ancillaries to support the text.
This new edition of Dance Anatomy and Kinesiology will give teachers a clearer picture of the anatomical and kinesiological factors that aid in generating technique cues and identifying technique problems, and it will help them become more effective and empower dancers to realize their potential and artistic vision.
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Release Date: January 2024
9781718200630
Dance Anatomy 3/e
By Jacqui Greene Haas
Discover the pure power and aesthetic beauty of dance as you perfect your technique with Dance Anatomy, Third Edition. With more than 100 anatomical illustrations in a vibrant new color palette, you will see how specific dance, movement, and performance exercises will help you maintain posture, find more flexibility, breathe appropriately, and reduce the risk of injury that is inherent in executing repetitive movements.
Dance Anatomy is a must-have for every dancer. Exercises and movements are depicted in stunning detail, highlighting the engaged muscles, joints, and tendons so you can clearly see the connection between training and performance. Thoroughly updated, this third edition features 21 new exercises to improve strength, mobility, and flexibility, 42 new illustrations, including new Dance Focus images that explain how the exercises benefit the dancer in different positions and highlight modern expressions in dance and a more robust chapter on brain health that addresses chronic stress and anxiety to provide you with tools for overcoming stage fright or performance anxiety
You will also discover more efficient ways of improving your lines and technique by implementing a supplementary conditioning program that considers your changing cycles of classes, practices, and rest times.
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440 pages
AUD$: 246.00
250 X 190 mm
Release Date: May 2024
9781718219915
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296 pages
AUD$: 64.99
Motor Learning and Control for Dance
Principles and Practices for Performers and Teachers
By Donna Krasnow, Mary Virginia Wilmerding
As dance training evolves and becomes more complex, knowledge of motor behavior is foundational in helping dancers learn and master new skills and become more efficient in integrating the skills.
Motor Learning and Control for Dance is the first resource to address motor learning theory from a dance perspective. Educators and students preparing to teach will learn practical ways to connect the science behind dance to pedagogy in order to prepare dancers for performance. Dancers interested in performance from the recreational to professional levels will learn ways to enhance their technical and artistic progress.
In language accessible even to those with no science background, Motor Learning and Control for Dance showcases principles and practices for students, artists, and teachers.
The text offers a perspective on movement education not found in traditional dance training while adding to a palette of tools and strategies for improving dance instruction and performance. Aspiring dancers and instructors will explore how to develop motor skills, how to control movement on all levels, and most important how motor skills are best taught and learned.
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279 X 216 mm
Release Date: September 2015
9781450457415
Research in Dance
Methods, Processes, and Practical Applications
By Ali Duffy
Dance research is an ever-growing field, with many opportunities for dancers to shed light on the sophisticated ways dance affects and changes lives.
Research in Dance offers new and insightful information for dance researchers at all stages of their learning and inquiry.
In addition to serving as a foundational text for new researchers, it brings forward innovative concepts and strategies intended for those dance researchers already experienced in qualitative or arts-based inquiry.
There are few resources that delve into the specific purposes, methods, and processes of research in dance. As the first of its kind, this text addresses topics often overlooked by other resources: Arts-based research approaches, Socially engaged research, Interdisciplinary research methods, Professional paths in dance research and Grant writing for research support.
Rsearch in Dance aims to meet readers wherever they are in their research journey and to address the needs of people working, studying, or researching in academic, nonprofit, business, and studio settings as well as in company dance and arts programs.
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336 pages
AUD$: 132.00
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Release Date: April 2026
9781718213975
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168 pages
AUD$: 113.00
Core Teaching Practices for Dance Education
By Emily Enloe
Core Teaching Practices for Dance Education With HKPropel Access is a practical guide for dance educators that covers the basics of running a successful dance program and addressing challenges that are not always solvable by great lesson plans alone.
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254 X 178 mm
Release Date: March 2026
9781718235205
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176 pages
AUD$: 102.00
Teaching Children Dance 4/e
By Karen A. Kaufmann, Jordan Dehline
The dance lesson plans in this groundbreaking book infuse creativity in mathematics and science content. Students will gain a wealth of critical knowledge, deepen their criticalthinking skills, and learn to collaborate and communicate effectively.
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279 X 216 mm
Release Date: September 2014
9781450441339
By Susan M. Flynn, Emily Enloe
Teaching Children Dance is back and better than ever. The fourth edition of this text retains everything dance educators have loved in previous editions while providing significant updates and new material.
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280 X 210 mm
Release Date: February 2024
9781718213159
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312 pages
AUD$: 175.00
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240 pages
AUD$: 81.99
Complete Guide to Primary Dance
By Lyn Paine, National Dance Teachers Association
Through Complete Guide to Primary Dance, you’ll gain the insight, expertise and confidence to teach dance to children from reception to year 6.
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254 X 178 mm
Release Date: May 2014
9781450428507
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120 pages
AUD$: 94.99
Dance Teaching Methods and Curriculum Design 2/e
Comprehensive K-12 Dance Education
By Gayle Kassing, Danielle Jay-Kirschenbaum
This new edition of Dance Teaching Methods and Curriculum Design is ideal for preparing undergraduate students to teach dance education. Students will learn a conceptual and comprehensive model of dance education that embraces dance as an art form and a lifelong physical activity.
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279 X 216 mm
Release Date: January 2021
9781492572398
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528 pages
AUD$: 220.00
Beginning Ballet
By Gayle Kassing
Elementary Dance Education
Nature-Themed Creative Movement and Collaborative Learning
Beginning Ballet and the accompanying web resource introduce students to the study of ballet as a performing art and provide instructional support in learning foundational ballet technique. Part of Human Kinetics' Interactive Dance Series, Beginning Ballet is for students enrolled in a beginning ballet class at the college, university, or high school level. It features more than 80 photos and concise descriptions covering basic foot and arm positions, barre exercises, and centre combinations.
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Release Date: November 2013
9781450402491
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176 pages
AUD$: 81.99
By Janice Pomer
Elementary Dance Education helps teachers develop the instructional skills they need to incorporate dance into their curricula, providing over 70 movement activities and exercises for students in grades K-6.
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280 X 215 mm
Release Date: February 2023
9781718202955
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296 pages
AUD$: 102.00
Beginning Jazz Dance
By James Robey
Beginning Jazz Dance prepares students to have a successful experience in a beginning jazz dance technique course and includes 80 photos accompanied by descriptions that visually present the beginning jazz dance technique and dance concepts that will reinforce and extend classroom learning. It also introduces students to the history, artists, significant works, styles, and aesthetics of the genre so they understand dance as a performing art.
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254 X 178 mm
Release Date: March 2016
9781450468947
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176 pages
AUD$: 81.99
Beginning Modern Dance
By Miriam Giguere
Beginning Modern Dance text and web resource introduce undergraduate and high school students to modern dance as a performing art through participation, appreciation, and academic study in the dance technique course.
50 photos with concise descriptions support students in learning beginning modern dance technique and in creating short choreographic or improvisational studies. For those new to modern dance, the book provides a friendly orientation on the structure of a modern dance technique class and includes information regarding class expectations and appropriate attire. Students also learn how to prepare mentally and physically for class, maintain proper nutrition and hydration, and avoid injury.
Beginning Modern Dance supports students in understanding modern dance as a performing art and as a medium for artistic expression. The accompanying web resource offers 38 interactive video clips and photos of dance technique. In addition, e-journal and self-reflection assignments and quizzes in the web resource help students develop their knowledge of modern dance as both performers and viewers
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254 X 178 mm
Release Date: February 2014
9781450405171
Beginning Musical Theatre Dance
By Diana Dart Harris
Beginning Musical Theatre Dance With HKPropel Access introduces students to basic musical theatre dance techniques from a variety of genres, forms, and styles and explains how to put them into practice for performance on stage.
It teaches students what they need to know about auditions, rehearsals, performing, and caring for themselves so they can have a successful experience in a musical theatre dance course.
Designed for students enrolled in introductory musical theatre dance courses, the text contains photos and descriptions of basic warm-up exercises, center work, steps from a variety of dance genres used in musical theatre dance, partnering, and lifts.
For those new to dance, the text provides an orientation to the structure of a musical theatre dance class and includes information on meeting class expectations, dressing appropriately, preparing mentally and physically, maintaining proper nutrition and hydration, and avoiding injury.
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176 pages
AUD$: 81.99
254 X 178 mm
Release Date: April 2016
9781492502890
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128 pages
AUD$: 81.99
Beginning Tap Dance
By Lisa Lewis
This book helps students learn tap dancing and appreciate it as a performing art. Lisa Lewis, an experienced tap dancer and dance instructor, focuses her book on novice dancers. Her stepby-step instruction will help beginning tap dancers match the beat of their enthusiasm to the rhythm of their feet!
Designed for students enrolled in introductory tap dance courses, Beginning Tap Dance contains concise descriptions of exercises, steps, and techniques. Featuring more than 70 video clips of tap steps with verbal cues, the web resource helps students review content learned in class or other beginning steps.
The book introduces students to the dance form by detailing its physical and mental benefits. With Beginning Tap Dance, students also learn about etiquette, proper attire, class expectations, health, and injury prevention for dancers.
Chapters also introduce students to the history, major works, artists, styles, and aesthetics of tap dance as a performing art.
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Disc: ACAD & PROFESSIONAL
254 X 178 mm
Release Date: September 2013
9781450411981
Beginning Hip-Hop Dance with Web Resource
By E Moncell Durden
Since its development in the 1970s, hip-hop has grown to become a global dance phenomenon. In Beginning Hip-Hop Dance, students gain a strong foundation and learn the fundamentals of hip-hop techniques.
Written by a dance educator and historian, this guide gives students the chance to explore hip-hop history and significant works and artists in the field.
Students are also taught to understand the styles and aesthetics of hip-hop as a performing and cultural art form.
There is also information about the different forms of hip hop dance, including locking, waacking, popping, boogaloo and house. Part of the Human Kinetics' Interactive Dance Series, Beginning Hip-Hop Dance also comes with a web resource of over 50 video clips. These clips support learning and dance technique.
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136 pages
AUD$: 81.99
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Disc: ACAD & PROFESSIONAL 120 pages
Release Date: August 2018
9781492544456
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AUD$: 76.99
Brain-Compatible Dance Education 2/e
By Anne Green Gilbert
Resource for dance educators in school and studio settings, early childhood educators, and recreation leaders in a variety of settings who work with people of all ages and abilities. Supplemental text for undergraduate dance pedagogy courses.
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Disc: ACAD & PROFESSIONAL Paperback
279 X 216 mm
328 Pages
Rel Date: December 2018
9781492561231
AUD$: 135.00
Dance Units for Middle School
By Judi Fey
Research clearly links increased participation in the arts to improved academic achievement and in response, more middle schools are adding dance to their curriculum. But most middle school educators are not trained in dance. Realizing this dilemma, author Judi Fey crafted the solution: Dance Units for Middle School. Ideal for teachers without dance training as well as for dance educators, the book takes a student-directed approach you provide the students clear directions, and they create their own projects. Dance Units for Middle School provides you with everything you need to facilitate dance units: Teacher scripts to direct your students' work and to increase your comfort level, strategies for facilitating student dance and making it fun and a DVD with 77 reproducibles and video demonstrations of all skills as well as a music CD that saves you time in locating appropriate music to accompany lessons and student work
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279 X 216 mm
192 Pages
Rel Date: January 2011
9780736083676
AUD$: 149.00
Studying Dance
A Guide for Campus and Beyond
By Karen Schupp
Text for undergraduate (and performing arts high school) students that introduces them to the profession and to dance in postsecondary programs as well as other dance experiences on campus and in the community.
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Disc: ACAD & PROFESSIONAL Hardback
279 X 216 mm
192 Pages
Rel Date: January 2015
9781450437165
AUD$: 88.99
Author Bio:
Gayle Kassing, PhD, has performed professionally in ballet, modern dance, and musical theater. She has a BFA in ballet and theater, an MA in modern dance, a PhD in dance and related arts from Texas Woman's University, and an MAT in K-12 education with media. She has taught in universities in Nebraska, Illinois, and Florida as well as in public schools, dance studios, and regional ballet companies. She has authored or coauthored numerous books on dance and ballet methods and instruction. Kassing has presented at state, national, and international conferences and has worked as a dance consultant, providing dance professional development workshops for K-12 and university dance educators. In 2010, she was named the National Dance Association Scholar/Artist, and in 2016 she was the recipient of the National Dance Society's Dance Scholar Award.
Discovering Dance 2/e
By Gayle Kassing
Discovering Dance, Second Edition, is the premier introductory dance text for high school students. Whether they are new to dance or already have some experience, students will be able to grasp the foundational concepts of dance as they consider where dance movement comes from and why humans are compelled to move, and they will explore movement activities from the perspectives of a dancer, a choreographer, and an observer.
Specifically designed to meet national and state dance education standards, Discovering Dance offers a ready-to -implement dance curriculum that is foundational and flexible. It fosters students' discovery of dance through creating, performing, analyzing, understanding, responding to, connecting to, and evaluating dance and dance forms.
The book is divided into four parts and 17 chapters:
• Part I: focuses on the foundational concepts of dance and art processes, wellness, safety, dance elements, and composition.
• Part II: delves into dance in society, including historical, social, traditional, and cultural dances.
• Part III: students explore dance on stage-including ballet, modern dance, jazz dance, tap, and hip-hop-and examine aspects of performance and production.
• Part IV: rounds out the content by preparing students for dance in college or as a career and throughout life.
The chapter content helps students discover dance genres; explore each genre through its history, artists, vocabulary, and significant works; apply dance concepts through movement and through written, oral, visual, technology, and multimedia assignments, thus deepening their knowledge and abilities.
The activities and assignments meet the needs of visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learners and help students explore dance through vocabulary, history, culture, creation, performance, and choreography. The personal discovery process is greatly aided by technology-including video clips that demonstrate dance genres, forms, styles, and techniques as well as learning experiences that require taking photos and creating time lines, graphs, drawings, diagrams, or soundscapes.
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250 X 150 mm Hardback
Release Date: January 2025
9781718220836
360 pages
AUD$: 240.00
Dancer Wellness
By Mary Virginia Wilmerding, Donna Krasnow, IADMS
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) Dancer Wellness covers four primary topics:
1. Foundations of dancer wellness, which explores the dancer’s physical environment, the science behind training, and conditioning.
2. Mental components of dancer wellness, which investigates the psychological aspects that influence a dancer’s training imagery, somatic practices, and the ways that rest, fatigue, and burnout affect learning, technique, and injury risk and recovery
3. Physical aspects of dancer wellness, which examines dancer nutrition and wellness, including the challenges in maintaining good nutrition, addressing body composition issues, bone health, injury prevention, and first aid
4. Assessments for dancer wellness, which offers guidance in goal setting, screenings, assessing abilities, and designing a personal wellness plan
Each chapter offers learning objectives at the beginning and review questions at the end to help readers recall what they have learned. Sidebars within each chapter focus on selfawareness, empowerment, goal setting, and diversity in dance.
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279 X 216 mm
Release Date: January 2017
9781492515814
Breathing for Peak Performance
Functional Exercises for Dance, Yoga, and Pilates
By Eric Franklin
Most people give little thought to how they breathe but if they want to have more energy, be more alert, and improve their exercise and sport performance, they should, says renowned author, dancer, and movement educator Eric Franklin.
This concise, heavily illustrated text will help you to learn to improve your breathing function to benefit your health and improve your sport performance and daily living Understand the anatomy of breathing all the muscles and joints involved and how they work together and practice 35 breathing exercises to improve functional breathing technique and performance in dance, yoga, and Pilates
Study and train the vital muscle of breathing the diaphragm grasping how it interacts with the abdominal muscles and other muscles associated with breathing and comprehend the function and movement of the rib cage as it pertains to breathing. Integrate all the elements involved in breathing, including the lungs and inner organs, for optimal breathing function
Franklin presents the exercises many accompanied by full-color illustrations through his famed Franklin Method, which combines movement, imagery, and touch. His method helps practitioners relearn, in this case, correct breathing procedure to maximize breathing function
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216 pages
AUD$: 136.00
229 X 152 mm
Release Date: December 2018
9781492569671
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72 pages
AUD$: 35.99
Dance Injuries
Reducing Risk and Maximizing Performance
By Jeffrey A. Russell
Dance Injuries: Reducing Risk and Maximizing Performance With HKPropel Access presents a holistic wellness model and in-depth coverage of how to reduce the risk of injury in dance and how to care for injuries properly when they do occur.
Written by an international team of experts in the dance medicine and science field, including physicians, athletic trainers, physical therapists, researchers, and dance educators, Dance Injuries provides an overview of common dance injuries across a wide variety of dance styles.
From their extensive work with dancers, the authors provide valuable insight into minimizing dance injuries to maximize dancer longevity. The text offers practical ways to reduce the risk of dance injuries. Conditioning, flexibility training, nutrition, hydration, recovery, and rest are addressed.
Additionally, a chapter on holistic wellness helps dancers apply a wellness mindset to their training and performance. Dance Injuries is richly illustrated with nearly 200 full-color illustrations and 150 photos to help dancers connect with the essential information the book offers.
Six appendixes add to the wealth of content presented in the chapters. These provide information on international mental health resources, psychological safety in dance, screening for dancer health, disability dance and integrated dance, considerations for professional dance, and artistry and athletics.
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260 X 210 mm
Release Date: February 2025
9781718211865
Laban/Bartenieff Movement Studies 2/e
Contemporary Applications
By Colleen Wahl
The second edition of Laban/Bartenieff Movement Studies: Contemporary Applications offers a framework for understanding movement as it influences our perceptions of ourselves and others.
Readers will be guided through the framework so that they learn what movement analysis is, how it works, and how they can use it in their daily lives.
Now updated to include expanded coverage of the foundations of Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis (L/BMA) theory and taxonomy, new contributed essays from experts in the dance field and beyond, further explanation of initiation, addition of space harmony and new appendix providing a brief overview of motif.
An essential resource for L/BMA, this text provides a wealth of information about the many applications of movement analysis: developing a fuller range of movement and expression in the moving body, developing choreography, coaching and teaching movement, observing and describing how movement is meaningful, and more.
With Laban/Bartenieff Movement Studies, Second Edition, readers will learn to perceive human movement with greater nuance and specificity through observation and interpretation.
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448 pages
AUD$: 246.00
254 X 178 mm
Release Date: December 2025
9781718235724
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272 pages
AUD$: 125.00
Safe Dance Practice
By Edel Quin, Sonia Rafferty
Every dancer of every age, ability, and style should be able to engage fully in the act of dancing and be encouraged to achieve their potential without risk of harm to the body or mind. Enter Safe Dance Practice, by Edel Quin, Sonia Rafferty, and Charlotte Tomlinson. With nearly 60 years of collective experience in the dance profession as creative artists, teachers, and researchers, the authors translate extensive research and evidence-based practice in order to present the principles of safe practice that are essential to any dance experience. The authors offer evidence-based guidelines on implementing diverse principles in practice, informing and supporting dance practitioners in an evergrowing pool of styles and genres.
Understanding the Pelvis
A Functional Approach to Yoga
By Eric Franklin, Alison Wesley
All yoga instructors use cues as they teach their classes. But sometimes these cues can be vague, misleading or even anatomically incorrect. That makes Understanding the Pelvis: A Functional Approach to Yoga a vital resource for yoga instructors. The text focuses on dispelling the misconceptions surrounding the biomechanics of the pelvis. It uses an evidence-based scientific perspective to teach how the pelvis bones move. Following this, you will learn how to apply that knowledge through the practice of 26 asanas designed to improve pelvic function and yoga technique. The asanas are all accompanied by 66 colour illustrations that show proper technique and bring the exercises to life.
Fusion Workouts
Fitness,
Yoga, Pilates, and Barre
By Helen Vanderburg
Combine fitness, Pilates, yoga, and barre, and what do you get? An incredible workout that will engage you, challenge you, and change the way you exercise. Welcome to Fusion Workouts: Fitness, Yoga, Pilates, and Barre, the program shaped around your preferences, needs, and goals. You'll discover an approach combining four disciplines that will help you gain strength, muscle definition, flexibility, balance, and overall mind-body health. Fusion Workouts guides you through a five-step system accounting for your fitness level, goals, time available, activity preferences, and more. Then select from 15 ready-tofollow workouts, or mix it up and create your own. You'll find more than 100 exercises and poses along with easy-to-follow guidelines for sequencing them for maximum efficiency, effectiveness, and enjoyment. More Pilates and yoga with less barre? Less yoga and more fitness? No problem. This is your workout!
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279 X 216 mm
304 Pages
Rel Date: September 2015
9781450496452
AUD$: 96.99
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230 X 150 mm
104 Pages B&W THROUGHOUT
Rel Date: December 2019
9781492589624
AUD$: 35.99
HUMAN KINETICS
Disc: TRADE INTERNATIONAL Paperback
254 X 178 mm
304 Pages Rel Date: December 2016
9781492521389
AUD$: 48.99
Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery 2/e
By Eric Franklin
Eric Franklin's classic reference is back in a new full-color edition, complete with new material and exercises for instructors to use with their dancers, other performing artists, athletes, and classes. In Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery, Third Edition, Franklin teaches the use of imagery to increase self-awareness, improve body image, and apply anatomical and biomechanical principles for more efficient movement.
This expanded new edition includes more than 600 anatomical imagery exercises to improve posture and body alignment, release excess tension, and prevent injuries; over 500 full-color illustrations to help readers visualize the exercises and use them in various contexts; four audio files containing guided imagery exercises led by Franklin and set to music; and updated chapters throughout the book, including new material and exercises to address fasciae and connective tissue.
This book will help readers do just that as they discover their natural flexibility and increase their power to move. Franklin expertly guides readers through foundational concepts of posture, dynamic alignment, and imagery; explores different types of ima gery and guidelines for using them; and delves into biomechanical and anatomical principles, including the body's center and gravity, the laws of motion and force systems, and joint and muscle function.
HUMAN KINETICS
Disc: ACAD & PROFESSIONAL
280 X 180 mm
Release Date: January 2023
9781718200678
Dance Imagery for Technique and Performance 2/e
By Eric Franklin
Using imagery to improve dancing and artistic expression. Renowned master teacher Eric Franklin has thoroughly updated his classic text, Dance Imagery for Technique and Performance, providing dancers and dance teachers with a deep understanding of how they can use imagery to improve their dancing and artistic expression in class and in performance.
The 300 illustrations cover the major topics in the book, showing exercises to use in technique, artistic expression and performance.
This new edition of Dance Imagery for Technique and Performance can be used with Franklin's Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery, Second Edition, or on its own.
Either way, readers will learn how to combine technical expertise with imagery skills to enrich their performance, and they will discover methods they can use to explore how imagery connects with dance improvisation and technique.
HUMAN KINETICS
Disc: TRADE INTERNATIONAL Paperback
Paperback
512 pages
AUD$: 119.00
279 X 216 mm
Release Date: December 2013
9780736067881
392 pages
B&W THROUGHOUT
AUD$: 76.99
Essentials of Dance Psychology
By Sanna Nordin-Bates
Through Essentials of Dance Psychology, readers will come to understand why dancers think and behave as they do and how to design healthy, creative dance environments that lead to both well-being and optimal performance.
The book is built on a foundation of evidence from dance and sport psychology research, with applied experiences used as examples throughout. Where appropriate, evidence from other areas of psychology for example, cognitive behavioral therapy is used.
A thorough coverage of topics relevant to dancers, teachers, and others working to support dancers is included, making the book suitable for one slightly longer course or two short courses in introductory dance psychology.
Materials available through HKPropel Access include downloadable worksheets, three audio files with guided exercises, vocabulary study aids, lettering art, and two goalsetting templates. In addition, an instructor pack provides chapter summaries, a course outline, a test bank, and a PowerPoint presentation package.
HUMAN KINETICS
Disc: ACAD & PROFESSIONAL
280 X 220 mm
Release Date: January 2023
9781718207554
Dance Psychology for Artistic and Performance Excellence
By Jim Taylor, Elena Estanol
The dance world is filled with technique books, which certainly serve an important role in helping dancers improve their performance.
But the market has been conspicuously void of instruction on a vital aspect of dance performance: the mental aspect.
Jim Taylor, a veteran sport and dance psychologist and author, and Elena Estanol, a dancer, instructor, and sport and dance psychologist, bring their experience and knowledge to Dance Psychology for Artistic and Performance Excellence to help dancers at all levels develop psychological strength to maximize their performance.
Dance Psychology for Artistic and Performance Excellence will help dancers to understand how to use the mental aspects of dance to their advantage, learn simple techniques to raise their dancing to a new level and refine their technique and overcome performance challenges.
HUMAN KINETICS
Disc: TRADE INTERNATIONAL
Paperback
352 pages
AUD$: 187.00
254 X 178 mm
Release Date: September 2015
9781450430210
Paperback
312 pages
AUD$: 68.99
Dance Appreciation
By Dawn Loring, Julie Pentz
Dance is an activity that everyone can enjoy, and Dance Appreciation will help students do just that. Dance Appreciation is written to encompass the needs of a broad range of dance students, from high school to university level, and is appropriate for students who are new to dance as well as those who are experienced in the art form.
The text will help learners discover more about themselves, connect with dance, and make it a relevant and vital part of their lives, whether it is their primary course of study, eventual career path, or simply a way to express themselves and enrich their lives. This text is the only dance appreciation resource that offers ancillary materials for instructors: Instructor ancillaries consisting of an instructor guide, test package, and PowerPoint presentation package make the teaching experience both easier and more effective, whether teaching in face-to-face or online settings.
Five video segments demonstrate elements of dance and offer associated learning and movement activities, bringing the content to life for students. Textbook elements such as learning objectives, key terms, Enduring Understanding statements, Spotlight special elements, and chapter discussion questions help students navigate the chapters and retain the essential content. In addition, related resources delivered through HKPropel supply students with learning activities, individual and group projects, handouts, time lines, suggestions for further reading, video recommendations, and more to facilitate the learning experience.
HUMAN KINETICS
Disc: ACAD & PROFESSIONAL
280 X 220 mm
Release Date: April 2021
9781492592587
Attention and Focus in Dance
Enhancing Power, Precision, and Artistry
By Clare Guss-West
The Western approach to dance is largely focused on control and mastery of technique, both of which are certainly necessary skills for improving performance. But mindful attention, despite its critical role in high performance, has gotten short shrift-until now. Attention and Focus in Dance, a how-to book rooted in the 20 years of attentional focus findings of researcher Gabriele Wulf, will help dancers unlock their power and stamina reserves, enabling efficient movement, heightening their sensory perception and releasing their dance potential.
Author Clare Guss-West-a professional dancer, choreographer, teacher and holistic practitioner-presents a systematic, sciencebased approach to the mental work of dance. Her approach helps dancers hone the skills of attention, focus and self-cueing to replenish energy and enhance their physical and artistic performance.
Attention and Focus in Dance offers readers: A unique approach, connecting the foundations of Eastern movement with Western movement forms, research -based teaching practices in diverse contexts, including professional dance companies, private studios, and programmes for dancers with special needs or movement challenges, testimonies and tips from international professional dancers and dance educators who use the book's approach in their training and teaching and a dance-centric focus that can be easily integrated into existing training and teaching practice, in rehearsal, or in rehabilitation contexts to provide immediate and long-term benefits.
HUMAN KINETICS
Disc: ACAD & PROFESSIONAL
Paperback
200 pages
AUD$: 191.00
250 X 200 mm
Release Date: January 2021
9781492594451
Paperback
256 pages
AUD$: 87.99
Dance Cultures Around the World
By Lynn E. Frederiksen, Shih -Ming Li Chang
Written by a diverse group of authors from across the globe, Dance Cultures Around the World offers students a rich and indepth look at 25 different cultures of dance. Through a dynamic collaboration with the chapter authors, editors Lynn E. Frederiksen and Shih-Ming Li Chang have carefully created a unique multimedia resource that includes vetted links to dance videos, images, and other materials.
The text, suitable for high school and undergraduate general education and dance courses, addresses cross-cultural dynamics, colonialism, diaspora, politics, and more as critical factors in learning about cultures of dance around the world
Written by cultural insiders, the chapters illuminate contexts and histories of dances often misinterpreted through the notion of dance as a universal language. To ensure rich cross-cultural engagement, the insiders "translate" their dance cultures, showing how influential forces affect both the qualities of the dance and its place in society.
Dance Cultures Around the World offers a wealth of information It explores dance cultures in nine geopolitical regions. It reveals patterns that operate in each region, adjusting for historical, political, and geographical differences. It enriches the reader's experience of their own culture, as well as those of others, as they learn what dance is in various cultures, who dances, and why they dance. Each chapter begins with a vignette describing a signature dance or dance-related feature of the culture, followed by an introduction to its history and geography.
HUMAN KINETICS
Disc: ACAD & PROFESSIONAL
279 X 216 mm
Release Date: October 2023
9781492572329
History of Dance 2/e
By Gayle Kassing
History of Dance, Second Edition, offers readers a panoramic view of dance from prehistory to the present. The text covers the dance forms, designs, artists, costumes, performing spaces, and accompaniments throughout the centuries and around the globe.
Its investigative approach engages students in assignments and web projects that reinforce the learning from the text, and its ancillaries for both teachers and students make it easy for students to perceive, create, and respond to the history of dance.
History of Dance is presented in three parts. Part I covers early dance history, beginning with prehistoric times and moving through ancient civilizations in Greece, Crete, Egypt, and Rome and up to the Renaissance.
Part II explores dance from the Renaissance to the 20th century, including a chapter on dance in the United States from the 17th through 19th centuries.
Part III unfolds the evolution of American dance from the 20th century to the present, examining imported influences, emerging modern dance and ballet, and new directions for both American ballet and modern dance.
HUMAN KINETICS
Disc: ACAD & PROFESSIONAL
Paperback
376 pages
AUD$: 230.00
279 X 216 mm
Release Date: September 2017
9781492536697
Paperback
320 pages
AUD$: 215.00
Dance in a World of Change
Reflections on Globalization and Cultural Difference
By Sherry Shapiro
Dance in a World of Change: Reflections on Globalization and Cultural Difference will help you understand how dance instruction is affected by globalization; discover the ways in which the discourse and curriculum of dance connect it to the critical, political, moral, and aesthetic dimensions of contemporary society; and learn from the rich and generative set of experiences of international dance educators, choreographers, critics, and scholars.
The contributing writers hail from around the world: South Africa, Brazil, Croatia, Ireland, Canada, Taiwan, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Holland, Jamaica, and the United States.
They bring their distinguished records as dance educators, choreographers, critics, and scholars to this book as they address a form of human empowerment or cultural resistance; a means of recognizing diverse cultural experience and communicating common humanity; an expression of social conflict, injustice, violence, and marginalization; and an educational process that transcends the particular and encompasses commonality.
Dance in a World of Change is a catalyst for new thinking about dance among teachers, choreographers, and scholars in the field. Readers will experience the passion and excitement of the contributing writers, who delineate the connections that help form a global community.
HUMAN KINETICS
Disc: ACAD & PROFESSIONAL Hardback
229 X 152 mm
Release Date: July 2008
9780736069434
Careers in Dance
Practical and Strategic Guidance From the Field
By Ali Duffy
Careers in Dance is a master guide that will help students navigate the expanding opportunities in dance and familiarize current professionals with potential career choices that best align with their pursuits and strengths.
This highly practical text offers a wealth of information on career options in a variety of settings and with a variety of focuses, including commercial ventures, scholarly pursuits, administrative avenues, medical and scientific settings, and interdisciplinary opportunities. Readers are guided in discovering their deepest interests and learning how to translate their unique strengths into rich and fulfilling careers.
In keeping with recent trends in higher education dance programs, Careers in Dance spotlights entrepreneurship and leadership opportunities for dancers, delving into an array of options and offering much-needed advice. The book covers some of the social and cultural influences that affect success in the field, and it explores various career opportunities
The text also helps readers understand the connections between dance and other disciplines. For example, it details the interdisciplinary opportunities involving technology, technical theater, and media. It also notes the possibilities for continued education in graduate school programs and suggests approaches to acclimating to life as a working professional.
HUMAN KINETICS
328 pages
B&W THROUGHOUT
AUD$: 76.99
Disc: ACAD & PROFESSIONAL Paperback
Release Date: September 2020
9781492592723
208 pages
AUD$: 76.99
Producing Dance A Collaborative Art
By Robin Kish, Wilson Mendieta, Jennifer Backhaus, Marc Jordan Ameel, Samantha Waugh
Most dance production books are written from the perspective of a production manager or designer, focusing on the technical aspects of a traditional dance production. Producing Dance takes a unique path-one that includes the voice of the choreographer and dancer in the journey to performance.
In doing so, the authors support the process of the entire creative team and cover all aspects of a production. They put those aspects in the context of real-world application, in sequence with other components, creating a toolbox for success for all involved. By the end of the book, readers will have discovered the many options available to them in the production setting and be able to choose the tool most needed at the time.
Producing Dance goes beyond the performance, covering evaluation, reflection, and opportunities for growth. And it offers guidance in two critical areas that are not addressed in other dance production books: creating dance performances in nontraditional spaces such as site-specific venues, dance and culture festivals, and audience-immersive experiences
Producing Dance makes that journey not only doable but also enjoyable. It provides readers the understanding and tools they need to realize their vision, explore and develop their voice, and further their growth and career development.
HUMAN KINETICS
Disc: ACAD & PROFESSIONAL
280 X 220 mm
Release Date: April 2023
9781718207868
Interdisciplinary Arts
Integrating Dance, Theatre, and
Visual Arts
By Suzanne Ostersmith, Kathleen Jeffs
No matter what field a person is working in or preparing for, collaboration and integration of ideas and knowledge are important to success. Interdisciplinary Arts provides a portal to that success by introducing students to the integration of arts concepts that they can apply to any field or endeavour they undertake.
This unique text draws from the separate but related disciplines of theatre, dance, and visual arts to help students explore creative and innovative thinking and problem solving. The authors guide the students through the creative process, using exercises, journal prompts, and other tools to aid them in creating original works that employ those arts concepts.
Interdisciplinary Arts uses strategies and terminology from multiple areas of artistic practice to enrich students’ perspectives as artists and as problem solvers and communicators. It also spotlights various artists from history and presents case studies about former students who have created exciting projects, broadening students’ understanding of what might be possible and spurring more creative thinking.
The book also comes with an instructor guide that offers chapter overviews, teaching tips, additional exercises, a sample syllabus, and more. A student web resource includes all the activities and journal prompts as well as editable worksheets and additional resources.
HUMAN KINETICS
Disc: ACAD & PROFESSIONAL
Paperback
232 pages
AUD$: 193.00
280 X 215 mm
Release Date: June 2022
9781492599876
Paperback
208 pages
AUD$: 134.00
Teaching Dance as Art in Education
By Brenda Pugh McCutchen
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 standards-oriented, aesthetically driven program should encompass for both the dance specialist and his or her K-12 students.
Teaching Dance as Art in Education fosters an understanding of dance as arts education and defines the dance specialist's roles and responsibilities, including how the national arts initiatives and student-centered inquiry affect the teaching of dance. It explains how to advance student growth in the areas most critical to teaching dance: the physical, mental, artistic, and social. Content is delineated through four cornerstones of dance as art in education:
• Dancing and performing
• Creating and composing
• Knowing history, culture, and context
• Analyzing and critiquing
It also presents a new instructional approach, the Eight-Step Plan, that facilities integration of all four dance education cornerstones into each unit to make the lessons more coherent. Further, the many features in the textbook help dance specialists become aware of not only their unique roles and responsibilities when teaching educational dance but also how to develop an arts-oriented, professional teaching portfolio.
HUMAN KINETICS
Disc: ACAD & PROFESSIONAL
279 X 216 mm
Release Date: June 2006
9780736051880
Music Fundamentals for Dance
By Nola Nolen Holland
Music Fundamentals for Dance is the only current text that provides students with a fundamental understanding of music and how it applies to dance performance, composition, and teaching.
This valuable reference helps professional choreographers, dance educators, and dancers expand their knowledge of music and understand the relationships between music and dance.
Fundamentals of Music for Dance helps dancers understand of the elements of music-form and structure, musical time, melody, texture, and score reading-and how they relate to dance performance and choreography. An accompanying web resource contains:
• Extended learning activities and support materials, including practice opportunities combining music skills with dance or choreography
• Chapter summaries
• A glossary
• Websites, and handouts to help students practice music skills
• Music clips on the website offer ready-made examples, which students can use in applying concepts from the book
Music Fundamentals for Dance assists both future and current professionals in understanding the art form that will enhance their contributions as performers, choreographers, and educators.
HUMAN KINETICS
Disc: ACAD & PROFESSIONAL
Hardback
560 pages
AUD$: 165.00
254 X 178 mm Paperback
Release Date: April 2013
9780736096522
136 pages
AUD$: 92.99
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