Full Description
This volume, produced with the co-operation of the the National Dance Association, contains selected research papers on dance-related topics.
Contents
Portrait of a dance educator, Sandra R. Weeks and Anne Schley Duggan; a look at dance in higher education in the 1920s, 40s, and 1986-7, Christalia O. Volaitis; influences effecting K-8 dance education in the United States - 1950-1980, Nancy BrooksSchmitz; a new perspective, Sheryl Popkin Triebe and Erick Hawkins; a comparison of novice and experienced dancers' body awareness, Lynette Young Overby; the development of a spatial kinesthetic awareness measuring instrument for use with beginning dance students, Sandra Minton and Jeffrey Steffen; attitudes towards dance among students entering university physical education programs, A. Brien Nielsen et al; domain discrimination in dance attitude research, Nelson. D. Neal and Sylvie Fortin; towards a quantitative analysis of classic ballet - the upper body technique viewed through choreutics, Billie Lepczyk; a prismatic approach to the analysis of style in dance, Betsey Goodling Gibbons; timing in West African dance performance - the influence of extramusical factors on rhythm, Robert W. Nicholls; the social role of Alaskan Athabascan Potlatch dancing, Thomas F. Johnston; the ceremonial roots of Tlingit dance, Thomas F. Johnston.
