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LEADER: 04071cam 2200361Ia 4500
001 ocn846912548
003 OCoLC
005 20211218104610.0
008 130606s2012 caua 000 0 eng d
040 $aCLZ$beng$cCLZ$dOCLCQ$dOCLCF$dOCLCO$dS3O$dFDA
020 $a9781609279707
020 $a1609279700
035 $a(OCoLC)846912548
090 $aGV1753.5$bG84 2012
100 1 $aGuess, Wendy,$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe culture of dance :$bthe power to create, connect, and master /$cWendy Guess.
250 $aRevised second edition.
260 $aSan Diego, CA :$bCognella,$cc. 2012.
300 $axiv, 298 pages :$billustrations ;$c28 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
500 $aOriginally published in 2011 by Cognella.
505 0 $aPt.1. THE POWER TO CREATE. Understanding, meaning, purpose: What is dance? Why do we dance? Studying dance cultures around the world / Pegge Vissicaro -- Creating understanding. Dancing: the pleasure, power, and art of movement / Gerald Jonas -- Dance: a creative art experience / Margaret N. H'Doubler -- Dancing and its relations to education and social life / Allen Dodworth. -- Creating meaning and purpose. Religious symbolism and iconography / from the Encyclopedia Britanica -- Dancing: the pleasure, power, and art of movement / Gerald Jonas -- Societies of the Plains Indians / Clark Wissler. -- Pt. 2. THE POWER TO CONNECT. Communicate, bond, heal: Dance as a communication tool. Sex and symbol in the treatment of women: the wedding rite in a lybian oasis / John P. Mason -- Headspin: capoeira's ironic inversions / Barbara Browning -- Dancing at the crossroads: memory and nobility in Ireland / Helena Wuff -- African dance: bridges to humanity / Julie A. Sellers -- Fusion: bonding across dance culture. Vibrant Andalusia: the spice of life in Southern Spain / Ana Ruiz -- Bhangra: from farming to pop culture / Dr. Wendy Guess -- National rhythms, african roots / John Charles Chasteen -- The history of breakdancing / Mr. Fresh, the Supreme Rockers -- Southern Texas: a hot house of Zudeco / Roger Wood -- Forró: identity through dance / Dr. Wendy Guess -- Healing and fitness tools. Harnessing the healing power of movement / Carol Krucoff, Mitchell Krucoff -- A therapeutic dance program for parkinson's patients / Jennifer Valdes -- The basic fundamentals of a natural physical education / Joseph H. Pilates, William J. Miller -- Yoga as medicine: the yogic prescription for health and healing / Timothy McCall -- Does partnered dance promote health? The case of tango argentino / Gunter Kreutz -- Somatics: Reawakening the mind's control of movement, flexibility, and health / Thomas Hanna. -- Pt. 3. THE POWER TO MASTER. Excel, perform, compete: Dance as a performance art (fine art). Principles of dance and movement notation / Rudolph Laban -- Interesting moments in the history of ballet / Anneliese Burns Wilson -- Dancing: the pleasure, power, and art movement / Gerald Jonas -- The mothers of invention: founding females of modern dance / Anneliese Burns Wilson -- American ballroom theater / Pierre Dulaine -- Dancing: the pleasure, power, and art movement / Gerald Jonas -- Dance as a creative art (competitive and recreational). Dancing till dawn / Julie Malnig -- Discovering jazz dance: America's energy and soul / Janice LaPoint-Crump & Kimberly Staley --Tap dance fundamentals / Colleen N. West. -- Education: passing on the legacies. Education through dance / Margaret N. H'Doubler -- A teacher's resourse guide: addressing health and dance issues / Dr. Wendy Guess.
650 0 $aDance$xStudy and teaching.
650 0 $aDance in education.
650 0 $aDance$xAnthropological aspects.
650 7 $aDance$xAnthropological aspects.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00887405
650 7 $aDance in education.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01739812
650 7 $aDance$xStudy and teaching.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00887472
650 7 $aDans$xsociala aspekter.$2sao
994 $aZ0$bP4A
948 $hNO HOLDINGS IN P4A - 7 OTHER HOLDINGS