Essential Guide to Dance, 3rd edition

Third Edition

Paperback

Published: 22/08/2008

Extent: 356 pages

Illustrations: 24 b&w line, 7 colour line, 38 colour half-tone, 33 b&w line

 

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Summary:

Clearly explain choreography, performance and dance appreciation in relation to new set works and choreographers.

Thoroughly updated to meet the AS/A2 specifications and relevant Applied A levels, BTEC and other Dance qualifications, this highly illustrated third edition of Essential Guide to Dance provides support, guidance and all the up-to-date information students and teachers need.

Help students grasp dance technique and the implications for safe practice

Reinforce learning with interactive tasks and revision tests

Engage students with an extensive range of activities covering all aspects of current Dance courses so they learn more effectively

Prepare them for their examinations with a student-friendly guide to the choreographic process

Table of Contents:
1: Safe Dance Practice
2: The Dancer in Performance
3: The Constituent Features of Dances: Movement
4: The Constituent Features of Dance: The Physical Setting
5: The Constituent Features of Dance: The Aural Setting
6: Choreography: Skills and Ideas
7: Making and Rehearsing Dances
8: Dance Appreciation
9: Recording Dance
10: Dance Today and Tomorrow
Answers to Tasks
Index

About the Author(s):

Linda Ashley is currently Dance Research Leader at AUT University, New Zealand. Her experience in Dance encompasses writing, choreography, performing and teaching.

Readership:
16-19