Advice for dancers : emotional counsel and practical strategies / Linda H. Hamilton.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: San Francisco : Jossey-Bass Publishers, ©1998.Edition: 1st edDescription: vii, 230 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0787940437 (alk. paper)
  • 9780787964061
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 21 792.80132 HAM
LOC classification:
  • GV1588.5 .H35 1998
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Contents:
Accepting the dancer you are -- Teaching practices : the good, the bad, the ugly -- Focusing on body shape and appearance -- Your relationships : friends or foes? -- So you want to be a professional -- Performing at your peak -- The mind-body connection : injuries and your health -- Is there life after dance?
Summary: "In this book, Dance Magazine's famed Linda Hamilton offers dancers of all ages, types, and levels of skill the same kind of advice and understanding they have come to trust from her popular monthly column. Clinical psychologist Hamilton--a former dancer with New York City Ballet under the legendary George Balanchine--offers a complete resource for coping with the day-to-day pressures of being a dancer. Page after page is filled with the insight that can come only from a person who has been intimately involved in the world of dance for more than twenty-five years."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-217) and index.

Accepting the dancer you are -- Teaching practices : the good, the bad, the ugly -- Focusing on body shape and appearance -- Your relationships : friends or foes? -- So you want to be a professional -- Performing at your peak -- The mind-body connection : injuries and your health -- Is there life after dance?

"In this book, Dance Magazine's famed Linda Hamilton offers dancers of all ages, types, and levels of skill the same kind of advice and understanding they have come to trust from her popular monthly column. Clinical psychologist Hamilton--a former dancer with New York City Ballet under the legendary George Balanchine--offers a complete resource for coping with the day-to-day pressures of being a dancer. Page after page is filled with the insight that can come only from a person who has been intimately involved in the world of dance for more than twenty-five years."--Jacket.

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