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Book The Dancing Dilemma

    Book Details:
  • Author : Wimberly Tyler
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 1105293912
  • Pages : 54 pages

Download or read book The Dancing Dilemma written by Wimberly Tyler and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ethical Dilemmas in Dance Education

Download or read book Ethical Dilemmas in Dance Education written by Doug Risner and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-01-31 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first of its kind, this volume presents research-based fictionalized case studies from experts in the field of dance education, examining theory and practice developed from real-world scenarios that call for ethical decision-making. Dilemmas faced by dance educators in the studio, on stage, in recreation centers and correctional facilities, and on social media are explored, accompanied by activities for humanizing dance pedagogy. These challenges converge from educational policies and mandates developed over the past two decades, including teacher-proof "scripted" curriculum, high-stakes testing, standardization, and methods-centered teacher preparation; difficulties are often perpetuated by those who want to make change happen but do not know how.

Book Jake Maddox  Dance Team Dilemma

Download or read book Jake Maddox Dance Team Dilemma written by Jake Maddox and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2013 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hannah has to decide what's more important: keeping her spot on her school's dance team or keeping her best friend.

Book Ethical Dilemmas in Dance Education

Download or read book Ethical Dilemmas in Dance Education written by Doug Risner and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-02-13 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first of its kind, this volume presents research-based fictionalized case studies from experts in the field of dance education, examining theory and practice developed from real-world scenarios that call for ethical decision-making. Dilemmas faced by dance educators in the studio, on stage, in recreation centers and correctional facilities, and on social media are explored, accompanied by activities for humanizing dance pedagogy. These challenges converge from educational policies and mandates developed over the past two decades, including teacher-proof "scripted" curriculum, high-stakes testing, standardization, and methods-centered teacher preparation; difficulties are often perpetuated by those who want to make change happen but do not know how.

Book Jake Maddox Girl  Ballet Bullies

Download or read book Jake Maddox Girl Ballet Bullies written by Jake Maddox and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marissa has always loved dancing. But lately, she feels clumsy and awkward when she dances, and she feels bigger and taller than the other girls. She doesn't even bother trying out for the Rose Fairy ballet. But someone else thinks Marissa has what it takes to play the Rose Fairy!

Book When The Music Ends

    Book Details:
  • Author : Simone Beaudelaire
  • Publisher : Next Chapter
  • Release : 2022-02-03
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 291 pages

Download or read book When The Music Ends written by Simone Beaudelaire and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2022-02-03 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does a fated love rise from a pleasant note to a passionate symphony? Budding musician Erin James knows all too well the noise of neglect and tragedy, and that her infatuation with her best friend Sheridan’s brother, Sean, is doomed never to blossom. For his part, Sean Murphy isn't in the market for a relationship. He's more interested in helping build his father's construction company. Even if he were, his sister's best friend isn't on his radar. Everything changes when Sheridan plays matchmaker. That night, a date quickly flares into irresistible passion. But as their love reaches a crescendo, personal tragedy threatens to end their harmonious, unlikely romance. When the music ends, will the lovers find a way to compose a life together? This book contains graphic sex and is not suitable for readers under the age of 18.

Book Dancing with Difference

    Book Details:
  • Author : Linda Ashley
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2012-12-09
  • ISBN : 9460919855
  • Pages : 274 pages

Download or read book Dancing with Difference written by Linda Ashley and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-09 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the global vicissitudes of migration unfold so does ethnic difference in the classroom, and this book offers a timely examination of teaching about culturally different dances. At a time when the world of dance is, on the one hand, seemingly becoming more like fusion cookery there is another faction promoting isolation and preservation of tradition. How, if at all, may these two worlds co-exist in dance education? Understanding teaching about culturally different dances from postmodern, postcolonial, pluralist and critical perspectives creates an urgent demand to develop relevant pedagogy in dance education. What is required to support dance educators into the next phase of dance education, so as to avoid teaching from within a Eurocentric, creative dance model alone? An ethnographic investigation with teachers in New Zealand lays a foundation for the examination of issues, challenges and opportunities associated with teaching about culturally different dances. Concerns and issues surrounding notions of tradition, innovation, appropriation, interculturalism, social justice and critical pedagogy emerge. Engaging with both practice and theory is a priority in this book, and a nexus model, in which the theoretical fields of critical cultural theory, semiotics, ethnography and anthropology can be activated as teachers teach, is proposed as informing approaches to teaching about culturally different dances. Even though some practical suggestions for teaching are presented, the main concern is to motivate further thinking and research into teaching about dancing with cultural difference. Cover photo: Photo credit: lester de Vere photography ltd. Dancing with Difference (2009). Directed and co-choreographed for AUT University Bachelor of Dance by Linda Ashley with Jonelle Kawana, Yoon-jee Lee, Keneti Muaiava, Aya Nakamura, Siauala Nili, Valance Smith, Sakura Stirling and dancers. Won first prize in the 2009, Viva Eclectika, Aotearoa’s Intercultural Dance and Music Biennial Challenge run by NZ-Asia Association Inc NZ and the NZ Diversity Action Programme.

Book Scientific Perspectives and Emerging Developments in Dance and the Performing Arts

Download or read book Scientific Perspectives and Emerging Developments in Dance and the Performing Arts written by Pessali-Marques, Bárbara and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2021-06-11 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last few years, concerns about dancers’ health and the consequences of physical training have increased considerably. The physical requirements and type of training dancers need to achieve to reach their highest level of performance while decreasing the rate of severe injuries has awakened the necessity of more scientific knowledge concerning the area of dance, in part considering its several particularities. Scientific Perspectives and Emerging Developments in Dance and the Performing Arts is a pivotal reference source that provides vital research designed to reduce the gap between the scientific theory and the practice of dance. While highlighting topics such as burnout, mental health, and sport psychology, this publication explores areas such as nutrition, psychology, and education, as well as methods of maintaining the general wellbeing and quality of the health, training, and performance of dancers. This book is ideally designed for dance experts, instructors, sports psychologists, researchers, academicians, and students.

Book Teaching Dilemmas and Solutions in Content Area Literacy  Grades 6 12

Download or read book Teaching Dilemmas and Solutions in Content Area Literacy Grades 6 12 written by Peter Smagorinsky and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2014-08-19 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because literacy is not just the English teacher’s job Think literacy is just for English teachers? Not anymore. Nor should it be when you consider that each discipline has its own unique values and means of expression. These days, it’s up to all teachers to communicate what it means to be literate in their disciplines. Here, finally, is a book ambitious enough to tackle the topic across all major subject areas. Engage in this cross-disciplinary conversation with seasoned teachers and university researchers, and learn how to develop curriculum and instruction that are responsive to students’ needs across English/language arts, science, social studies, mathematics, visual space, and music and drama. Peter Smagorinsky and his colleagues provide an insider’s lens on both the states of their fields and their specific literacy demands, including: Reviews of current issues and state-of-the-art research informing literacy education Scenario-based activities for reflection and discussion, typifying the dilemmas and challenges faced by practicing teachers. Considerations of the textual forms and conventions required in each discipline Specific policy recommendations Read this book on your own for immediate suggestions on how to improve literacy instruction within your course of study. Better yet, share it with colleagues and participate in a larger conversation about how your literacy expectations influence the ways students read and produce texts in other disciplines.

Book Dancing With Natasha

Download or read book Dancing With Natasha written by Gregory Causey and published by Romance Divine LLC. This book was released on 2007-04 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this engaging, witty, and poignant memoir, Greg and his wife Joan make the frightening trek to the Arthur Murray Dance Studio in Dayton, Ohio, for a few lessons to better enjoy the professional formal functions they attend. What they find is nothing short of miraculous.

Book Dancing Jewish

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rebecca Rossen
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2014-05-02
  • ISBN : 0199792011
  • Pages : 337 pages

Download or read book Dancing Jewish written by Rebecca Rossen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-02 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Jews are commonly referred to as the "people of the book," American Jewish choreographers have consistently turned to dance as a means to articulate personal and collective identities; tangle with stereotypes; advance social and political agendas; and imagine new possibilities for themselves as individuals, artists, and Jews. Dancing Jewish delineates this rich history, demonstrating that Jewish choreographers have not only been vital contributors to American modern and postmodern dance, but that they have also played a critical and unacknowledged role in the history of Jews in the United States. A dancer and choreographer, as well as an historian, author Rebecca Rossen offers evocative analyses of dances while asserting the importance of embodied methodologies to academic research. Featuring over fifty images, a companion website, and key works from 1930 to 2005 by a wide range of artists - including David Dorfman, Dan Froot, David Gordon, Hadassah, Margaret Jenkins, Pauline Koner, Dvora Lapson, Liz Lerman, Sophie Maslow, Anna Sokolow, and Benjamin Zemach - Dancing Jewish offers a comprehensive framework for interpreting performance and establishes dance as a crucial site in which American Jews have grappled with cultural belonging, personal and collective histories, and the values that bind and pull them apart.

Book Dancing Till Dawn

Download or read book Dancing Till Dawn written by Julie Malnig and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1995-05 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malnig examines exhibition ballroom dance as both a theatrical genre and a cultural and social phenomenon, promoting new cultural standards, including the emancipation of women and a new casualness and spontaneity between the sexes. A lively and thorough account of a dance form that has found renewed popularity in recent years.

Book Dancing Through Life

    Book Details:
  • Author : Antoinette Benevento
  • Publisher : St. Martin's Press
  • Release : 2007-09-04
  • ISBN : 1466839783
  • Pages : 216 pages

Download or read book Dancing Through Life written by Antoinette Benevento and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2007-09-04 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A warm and encouraging self-help book that draws inspiration and motivation from ballroom dancing. Precisely because the dance floor stands apart from the everyday world, allowing dancers to play, experiment and take on new roles, it also serves as a stage for human behavior. Antoinette Benevento, a former national ballroom dancing champion and co-owner of Fred Astaire Dance Studios, has been a student of that stage for 25 years. She has discovered that getting out on the dance floor is a powerful and empowering metaphor for living fully in all realms of life. Some of the tenets Antoinette Benevento lives, dances, and teaches by: -Persistence is a form of beauty -Give yourself permission to begin again--and again and again -If you're not willing to risk falling, you'll never learn to walk (or dance) -Desire is the energy that moves us forward in dance and in life -To dance well and to live fully, body and soul need to work together Building on the ballroom dancing craze that has swept the country, including the popularity of "Dancing with the Stars", this illuminating and highly readable book shows that what you learn on the dance floor can help you dance through life. ANTOINETTE BENEVENTO is co-owner of and National Training Director for the Fred Astaire Dance Studios and a former national ballroom dancing champion. EDWIN DOBB is a contributing editor of Harper's Magazine, and has written for numerous other national publications, including The New York Times Magazine, Vogue, and Discover.

Book  Brown  in Baltimore

    Book Details:
  • Author : Howell S. Baum
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2011-01-15
  • ISBN : 0801457106
  • Pages : 295 pages

Download or read book Brown in Baltimore written by Howell S. Baum and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-15 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first book to present the history of Baltimore school desegregation, Howell S. Baum shows how good intentions got stuck on what Gunnar Myrdal called the "American Dilemma." Immediately after the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, the city's liberal school board voted to desegregate and adopted a free choice policy that made integration voluntary. Baltimore's school desegregation proceeded peacefully, without the resistance or violence that occurred elsewhere. However, few whites chose to attend school with blacks, and after a few years of modest desegregation, schools resegregated and became increasingly segregated. The school board never changed its policy. Black leaders had urged the board to adopt free choice and, despite the limited desegregation, continued to support the policy and never sued the board to do anything else. Baum finds that American liberalism is the key to explaining how this happened. Myrdal observed that many whites believed in equality in the abstract but considered blacks inferior and treated them unequally. School officials were classical liberals who saw the world in terms of individuals, not races. They adopted a desegregation policy that explicitly ignored students' race and asserted that all students were equal in freedom to choose schools, while their policy let whites who disliked blacks avoid integration. School officials' liberal thinking hindered them from understanding or talking about the city's history of racial segregation, continuing barriers to desegregation, and realistic change strategies. From the classroom to city hall, Baum examines how Baltimore's distinct identity as a border city between North and South shaped local conversations about the national conflict over race and equality. The city's history of wrestling with the legacy of Brown reveals Americans' preferred way of dealing with racial issues: not talking about race. This avoidance, Baum concludes, allows segregation to continue.

Book Dancing on the Edge

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jack Stevens
  • Publisher : Headline Accent
  • Release : 2014-03-13
  • ISBN : 1783754680
  • Pages : 148 pages

Download or read book Dancing on the Edge written by Jack Stevens and published by Headline Accent. This book was released on 2014-03-13 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rod Brookes is young, handsome and a highly successful 'exotic dancer'. He loves his work and he loves the guys he picks up at work. The only black spot in his perfect life is a mysterious 'admirer' who leaves him roses. But no one ever got hurt by a flower, right? Rod makes friends and enemies alike as he dances through his life to the frenetic beat of club music, little realising that, for one of these men, attraction has become something darker and altogether more dangerous. Is it Jed, the jealous 'star' of his new dance troupe? Or maybe Sam, his former employer, and would-be pimp? Perhaps muscleman Marty, would-be protector and sexual powerhouse? Or could it be Austin, the college teacher, the almost complete opposite of any man Rod's ever known, and the one he feels most drawn to? But when an unexpected discovery puts Austin's motives in a whole new light, and as devotion spirals into frightening obsession, 'accidents' begin to look more and more like attempted murder, and Rod's desperate need to sort out true friends from false becomes a race against time with the life of a loved one in the balance

Book The Complete Idiot s Guide to Ballroom Dancing

Download or read book The Complete Idiot s Guide to Ballroom Dancing written by Jeffrey Allen and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-04-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ballroom dancing is back! And now anyone can move like a pro. DVD included! In addition to the step-by-step photos, footwork illustrations, and instruction covering all the common ballroom dances, this new edition of the bestselling Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Ballroom Dancing includes a 90-minute instructional DVD featuring award-winning dancer and dance instructor Jeff Allen. It corresponds with the text seamlessly, giving readers the next best thing to one-on-one instruction, at a fraction of the cost. • The #1 selling ballroom dancing book • Includes a fantastic, new instructional DVD and hundreds of illustrations and instructions • Allen is a renowned, award-winning ballroom-dance teacher