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Volume 6

Dance

Current Selected Research

"For the neophyte researcher, the names of the reviewers and contributors will soon become very familiar. It is quite possible that this and future volumes will show up on reading lists in general dance research courses; for that reason this publication is recommended to undergraduate libraries supporting dance programs."
Choice on Volume 3

Edited by Lynnette Y. Overby and Billie Lepczyk
with the cooperation of
The National Dance Association
ISSN 0894-4849
Set ISBN-10: 0-404-63850-3, Set ISBN-13: 978-0-404-63850-4


Click here for contents to volumes 1–7.

Announcing
Volume 7

2009 (NYP)
ISBN-10: 0-404-63857-0
ISBN-13: 978-0-404-63857-3

Cloth $97.50

LYNETTE YOUNG OVERBY, Introduction: Dance: Current Selected Research: A Retrospective

Focus on Movement Analysis
CIANE FERNANDES, “Aesthetics and Healing: Authentic Movement in Dance-Theater Composition”
TERESA L. HEILAND, “Constructionist Dance Literacy: Unleashing the Potential of Motif Notation”
BECKY DYER, “Increasing Psychosomatic Understanding through Laban Movement Analysis and Somatic-Oriented Frameworks: Connections of Performance Processes to Knowledge Construction”
BILLIE LEPCZYK, “The Seven Movements of Dancing Viewed through Laban Movement Analysis”

Dance Education
MARTHA EDDY, “The Role of Dance in Violence Prevention Programs for Youth”
MILA PARRISH, “Enhancing Accessibility: Interactive Gateway Creating Online Curriculum for Dance Education”
DOUGLAS RISNER, “Dancing Boys Lives: A Study of Male Participation in Pre-Professional Dance Training and Education in the United States”
ALBA VIEIRA, “The Movements of Traditional and Transgressive Dance Teaching in Brazilian Higher Education: A Case Study”
BECKY DYER, “Finding Self, Honoring Learners: Sociopolitical Reflections on the Teaching of American Contemporary Dance Technique and Theory”
SANDRA STRATTON-GONZALEZ, “The Impact of Participation in the Creative Dance Clubs on the Social, Personal, and Cognitive Growth of Fourth- and Fifth- Grade Students at PS 722”

Index


Available
Volume 6

November 2007
ISBN-10: 0-404-63856-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-404-63856-6

Cloth $97.50

ALBA PEDREIRA VIEIRA, “The Educational Perspectives of Professors in a Dance Teaching Preparation Program: A Case Study of the Federal University of Viçosa, Brazil”
ALICE BLOCH, “Apollo, Dionysus: And/Or? A Study of the Apollonian and Dionysian Elements in the Work of Isadora Duncan and Vaslav Nijinsky”
MARGARET MUSMON, LAURIE MILLIKEN, and ANN MARIE GALLO, “The Triangle Assessment Project (TAP)”
PAULETTE CÔTÉ and SUSAN STREET, “Students’ Perception of the Role of an Internship in Dance Teacher Preparation for Hong Kong Secondary Schools”
MIRIAM GIGUERE, “Shared Symbols: An Investigation into the Symbols Conveyed through Dance and Sculpture”
REBEKAH J. KOWAL, “Visible Difference: Modern Dance and the Representation of Gender in Postwar America”
KAREN E. BOND, MONICA CAMERON FRICHTEL, and HANNAH PARK, “Who Am I? Who Are We? Children Perform Identity, Difference, and Community in an Intergenerational Dance Setting”
DOUG RISNER, “Dance Education in Social and Cultural Perspective”

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