Dancing Mind Minding Dance

Author : Doug Risner,Jennifer McNamara
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000907827

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Dancing Mind, Minding Dance by Doug Risner,Jennifer McNamara Pdf

Dancing Mind, Minding Dance encompasses a collection of pivotal texts published by scholar and researcher Doug Risner, whose work over the past three decades has emphasized the significance of social relevance and personal resonance in dance education. Drawing upon Risner’s breakthrough research and visionary scholarship, the book contextualizes critical issues of dance making in the rehearsal process, dance curriculum and pedagogy in 21st-century postsecondary dance education, the role of dance teaching artists in schools and community environments, and dance, gender, and sexual identity, especially the feminization of dance and the marginalization of males who dance. This book concludes with Risner’s prophetic vision for employing reflective practice in order to address social justice and inclusion and humanizing pedagogies in dance and dance education throughout all sectors of dance training and preparation. Beginning with his first book, Stigma and Perseverance in the Lives of Boys Who Dance (2009), Risner has distinguished himself as the leading education researcher, scholar, and practitioner to improve young dancers’ education and training and in humanistic ways. The book will appeal to dance educators and teachers, dance education scholars and researchers, choreographers, parents and care-givers of dance students, and those who work as teaching artists, arts administrators, private sector dance studio directors and teachers, as well as arts education researchers and scholars broadly. The chapters in this book, except for a few, were originally published in various Taylor & Francis journals.

Author : Douglas S. Risner,Jennifer McNamara
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1032382090

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Dancing Mind, Minding Dance by Douglas S. Risner,Jennifer McNamara Pdf

Author : Hunter Calder
Publisher : Pascal Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Reading (Primary)
ISBN : 1740200624

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Word Workers by Hunter Calder Pdf

BOOKS IN SERIES: 9 BOOKS IN READING F REEDOM 2000 PROGRAM: 24 ISBN: 978174020 0622 AUTHOR: Hunter Calder RRP: $15.95 PAGES: 120 pp. The Word Wo rkers Activity Books have been written specifically for students at the early to intermediate years of reading acquisition (suggested ages 7-11) . The series is structured to develop, in a sequential manner, basic rea ding skills. Word Workers takes students from the earliest skills of pho nemic awareness to the higher order skills of syllabification and struct ural analysis. In Word Workers Book 4: Consonant digraphs, studen ts learn to read words containing digraphs, long vowels and words with t he soft 'c' and 'g'. The activity pages consolidate the acquisition of t hese skills. Blending techniques are used to apply to new skills as they are introduced. After completing this book, students will be able to re ad and spell words containing these sounds and phonic generalisations an d work with skill-appropriate comprehension activities.

Author : Sandra Cerny Minton,Rima Faber
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Brain
ISBN : 1475812515

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Thinking with the Dancing Brain by Sandra Cerny Minton,Rima Faber Pdf

Thinking with the Dancing Brain examines the mind in action as it orchestrates skilled movement and how it understands the kinesthetic, symbolic language of dance. As seasoned dancers and dance educators, Minton and Faber's neurological research about the thought processes in learning and performing dance encompasses a vision of dance as creative art, communication, education, and life. This book seeks to inform neuroscientists, educators, and dancers about the complex interdependence of brain localities and the networking of human neurology through an integration of physiology, cognition, and the art of dance.

Author : J. Roche
Publisher : Springer
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137429858

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Multiplicity, Embodiment and the Contemporary Dancer by J. Roche Pdf

This book explores the co-creative practice of contemporary dancers solely from the point of view of the dancer. It reveals multiple dancing perspectives, drawn from interviews, current writing and evocative accounts from inside the choreographic process, illuminating the myriad ways that dancers contribute to the production of dance culture.

Author : Bettina Bläsing,Martin Puttke,Thomas Schack
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781136978005

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The Neurocognition of Dance by Bettina Bläsing,Martin Puttke,Thomas Schack Pdf

Dance has always been an important aspect of all human cultures, and the study of human movement and action has become a topic of increasing relevance over the last decade, bringing dance into the focus of the cognitive sciences. This book discusses the wide range of interrelations between body postures and body movements as conceptualised in dance with perception, mental processing and action planning. The volume brings together cognitive scientists, psychologists, neuroscientists, choreographers, and ballet teachers, to discuss important issues regarding dance and cognition. First, scientists introduce ideas that offer different perspectives on human movement and therefore can be applied to dance. Secondly, professionals from the world of dance have their say, reporting on how their creative and pedagogical work relates to cognition and learning. Finally, researchers with personal links to the dance world demonstrate how neurocognitive methods are applied to studying different aspects related to dance. This book is suitable for students and professionals from the fields of psychology, neuropsychology, cognitive psychology, sport psychology and sport science, movement science, motor control, motor development, kinesiology, dance, choreography, dance education and dance therapy; to teachers who want to teach dance to students of any age.

Author : Judith Lynne Hanna
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781475806069

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Dancing to Learn by Judith Lynne Hanna Pdf

Dancing to Learn: Cognition, Emotion, and Movement explores the rationale for dance as a medium of learning to help engage educators and scientists to explore the underpinnings of dance, and dancers as well as members of the general public who are curious about new ways of comprehending dance. Among policy-makers, teachers, and parents, there is a heightened concern for successful pedagogical strategies. They want to know what can work with learners. This book approaches the subject of learning in, about, and through dance by triangulating knowledge from the arts and humanities, social and behavioral sciences, and cognitive and neurological sciences to challenge dismissive views of the cognitive importance of the physical dance. Insights come from theories and research findings in aesthetics, anthropology, cognitive science, dance, education, feminist theory, linguistics, neuroscience, phenomenology, psychology, and sociology. Using a single theory puts blinders on to other ways of description and analysis. Of course, all knowledge is tentative. Experiments necessarily must focus on a narrow topic and often use a special demographic—university students, and we don’t know the representativeness of case studies.

Author : Jim Taylor,Elena Estanol
Publisher : Human Kinetics
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781492584926

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Dance Psychology for Artistic and Performance Excellence by Jim Taylor,Elena Estanol Pdf

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. Developing Psychological Strength in All Dancers 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 in these ways: • Understand how to use the mental aspects of dance to their advantage. • Learn simple techniques to raise their dancing to a new level. • Refine their technique and overcome performance challenges. Individualized Program and Web Resource Tools Dancers will build a strong foundation for performance by employing the dance-specific psychological strategies. The individualized program will help dancers reach their potential in artistry and excellence in school, the dance profession, and dance-related careers. The book comes with a companion web resource containing 40 worksheets that will help dancers grow mentally through reflection and self-examination. Dancers will be able to use these tools to refine their technique and overcome performance challenges. Scientifically Proven Psychological Methods Dance Psychology for Artistic and Performance Excellence incorporates some updated content from Taylor’s original best-selling book Psychology of Dance. Through the authors’ research and experience with dancers over the past two decades, this book offers the latest in scientifically proven psychological methods and practices that dancers have used to achieve optimal performance. As the authors write in their preface: What separates good dancers from the best dancers lies in how mentally prepared they are to perform their best, despite circumstances that dance and life throw at them. Dancers who are the most motivated to train, who have the greatest confidence in themselves, who perform best under pressure, who stay focused on their performance, who keep their emotions under control, and who are able to direct their emotions to elevate their performance and technique to true artistry are the most successful and revered. Key Psychological Concepts Explored To help dancers elevate their performance, the authors explore these concepts in the context of dance performance and provide practical exercises for each concept: • Self-knowledge • Motivation • Confidence • Intensity • Focus • Emotions • Goal setting • Imagery The authors also examine the foundations of dance psychology and delve into special concerns for dancers, including stress and burnout, pain and injury, and disordered eating. Making Your Mind the Most Powerful Tool Once you get to a certain level, your mind is your most powerful tool—or your most harmful weapon. Dance Psychology for Artistic and Performance Excellence will help dancers turn their minds into powerful tools not only to improve their technical and artistic performance but also to enhance their enjoyment, bring greater fulfillment, and enrich their lives personally and professionally. This text is an important contribution to the Human Kinetics dance list because it equips dancers with the psychological tools they need for success.

Author : Wendy Oliver,Doug Risner
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780813063454

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Dance and Gender by Wendy Oliver,Doug Risner Pdf

Driven by exacting methods and hard data, this volume reveals gender dynamics within the dance world in the twenty-first century. It provides concrete evidence about how gender impacts the daily lives of dancers, choreographers, directors, educators, and students through surveys, interviews, analyses of data from institutional sources, and action research studies. Dancers, dance artists, and dance scholars from the United States, Australia, and Canada discuss equity in three areas: concert dance, the studio, and higher education. The chapters provide evidence of bias, stereotyping, and other behaviors that are often invisible to those involved, as well as to audiences. The contributors answer incisive questions about the role of gender in various aspects of the field, including physical expression and body image, classroom experiences and pedagogy, and performance and funding opportunities. The findings reveal how inequitable practices combined with societal pressures can create environments that hinder health, happiness, and success. At the same time, they highlight the individuals working to eliminate discrimination and open up new possibilities for expression and achievement in studios, choreography, performance venues, and institutions of higher education. The dance community can strive to eliminate discrimination, but first it must understand the status quo for gender in the dance world. Wendy Oliver, professor of dance at Providence College, is coeditor of Jazz Dance: A History of the Roots and Branches. Doug Risner, professor of dance at Wayne State University, is coeditor of Hybrid Lives of Teaching Artists in Dance and Theatre Arts: A Critical Reader. Contributors: Gareth Belling | Karen Bond | Carolyn Hebert | Eliza Larson | Pamela S. Musil | Wendy Oliver | Katherine Polasek | Doug Risner | Emily Roper | Karen Schupp | Jan Van Dyke

Author : Judith Brin Ingber
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814333303

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Seeing Israeli and Jewish Dance by Judith Brin Ingber Pdf

A comprehensive survey of historical and contemporary Jewish dance. In Seeing Israeli and Jewish Dance, choreographer, dancer, and dance scholar Judith Brin Ingber collects wide-ranging essays and many remarkable photographs to explore the evolution of Jewish dance through two thousand years of Diaspora, in communities of amazing variety and amid changing traditions. Ingber and other eminent scholars consider dancers individually and in community, defining Jewish dance broadly to encompass religious ritual, community folk dance, and choreographed performance. Taken together, this wide range of expression illustrates the vitality, necessity, and continuity of dance in Judaism. This volume combines dancers' own views of their art with scholarly examinations of Jewish dance conducted in Europe, Israel, other Middle East areas, Africa, and the Americas. In seven parts, Seeing Israeli and Jewish Dance considers Jewish dance artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries; the dance of different Jewish communities, including Hasidic, Yemenite, Kurdish, Ethiopian, and European Jews in many epochs; historical and current Israeli folk dance; and the contrast between Israeli and American modern and post-modern theater dance. Along the way, contributors see dance in ancient texts like the Song of Songs, the Talmud, and Renaissance-era illuminated manuscripts, and plumb oral histories, Holocaust sources, and their own unique views of the subject. A selection of 182 illustrations, including photos, paintings, and film stills, round out this lively volume. Many of the illustrations come from private collections and have never before been published, and they represent such varied sources as a program booklet from the 1893 Chicago World's Fair and archival photos from the Israel Government Press Office. Seeing Israeli and Jewish Dance threads together unique source material and scholarly examinations by authors from Europe, Israel, and America trained in sociology, anthropology, history, cultural studies, Jewish studies, dance studies, as well as art, theater, and dance criticism. Enthusiasts of dance and performance art and a wide range of university students will enjoy this significant volume.

Author : David Ross
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008-12-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781443802581

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Being in Time to the Music by David Ross Pdf

Being-in-time to the music from the ground up is a work in phenomenology, where this term is broadly defined, comprehending Plato, Heidegger, Hegel, and Marx. The most direct referent is Hegel, together with the theoretical revolution that he initiated with Phenomenology of Mind. This text’s more general purpose is to set the tone for a 21st communism based upon the idea of dancing with death, assuming full responsibility for one’s mortality, and abandoning the self to love as the meaning of existence. This dance is choreographed through my conversations with the above mentioned writers. In conversing with them I aim to displace (if not usurp) them from the throne of honour which is nothing more than the authority borrowed from me. By this I do not intend to deny completely their ‘other to me’ character. However, they exist or even ‘figure’ for me, both in the sense of of ‘count,’ having importance, as those that I read, and by which I read myself. They have borrowed my authority, namely, my own potential to be an author. So ‘reading them is to re-assume that borrowed authority. The life of the reader, to paraphrase Barthes, begins with the death of the author.

Author : Sean Connolly
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1545296405

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Dancing Minds by Sean Connolly Pdf

Dancing Minds gives an insight into the level of mental strength required by those whose chosen passion in life is Irish step dance. In this book, Sean Connolly recounts the dancing tales of dancers and teachers from many regions throughout the world. He invites them to share their experiences, and the encounters are honest and refreshing. Each contributor adds their own colour and real-life experience of being an Irish dancer or teacher.The book also celebrates the many dancers who against all odds , have overcome many challenges and disabilities to achieve their dancing dreams. To be an Irish dancer , you need to develop physically , mentally, emotionally, socially and with a certain spirituality , if you want to last the pace. All dancers are on a journey, and the podium is but one destination- there are many views and encounters along the way.

Author : Consultant in Clinical Neurophysiology Sean Connolly,Sean Connolly
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1542525616

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Dancing Minds by Consultant in Clinical Neurophysiology Sean Connolly,Sean Connolly Pdf

Dancing Minds gives an insight into the level of mental strength required by those whose chosen passion in life is Irish step dance. In this book, Sean Connolly recounts the dancing tales of dancers and teachers from many regions throughout the world. He invites them to share their experiences, and the encounters are honest and refreshing. Each contributor adds their own colour and real-life experience of being an Irish dancer or teacher.The book also celebrates the many dancers who against all odds , have overcome many challenges and disabilities to achieve their dancing dreams. To be an Irish dancer , you need to develop physically , mentally, emotionally, socially and with a certain spirituality , if you want to last the pace. All dancers are on a journey, and the podium is but one destination- there are many views and encounters along the way.

Author : Maria Fay
Publisher : A & C Black
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Dance
ISBN : 0713647159

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Mind Over Body by Maria Fay Pdf

A collection of 45 essays first written as articles for 'The DancingTimes'. They focus on the many physical and psychological issues thatcause problems for children learning to dance and on the dilemmas ofvocational students and young professionals.

Author : Dr Kumdong Bindul Nostra
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 885 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781491888667

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Blood in the Water by Dr Kumdong Bindul Nostra Pdf

The book is about good leadership, for leaders to lead by actions and not by words of lies from their mouths. Leaders should be doggedly determined to give the people fair leadership. Nakinostran was struck and devastated by the mercilessly cruelest earthquake disaster. In the aftermath of the earthquake, there were spontaneous nuclear plant meltdowns across the country. The survivors watched helplessly all the nuclear plants melting down like candle waxes. Nakinostran was a well developed nation with greatest leaders seen by the people as only second to God because of their excellent leadership of oneness, love, peace and development and equality, not this fake equality we only let out of our mouths. The people, like any other, seeing the level of devastations, had different personal views, doubts and fears. They saw these devastations as their greatest obstacle to returning to a normal life again. Most of them had lost all hopes in life because of the malignant complications of the wickedest earthquake. Many people said thats it; Nakinostran is finished. But the doggedly determined young president, Henry Rupchang was only angered and bitterly touched at heart by the deaths. He had the courage and determination that the country will rise again. He was undaunted. He mustered what supports he could for the reconstructions of the country. He continuously told his people that nothing is impossible under this cone-shape heaven that umbrellaed our earth. His commitment was undiminished and despite the devastations, he unflinchingly told them the nation will rise again. All the leaders in the country bust the gut to reconstruct the country and with unity they worked as a people, though not without some distractions from some protesters. The leaders didnt lost a second in their sleepdid the president succeedas in the end, it was a heartwarming people.