Dance : current selected research /
edited by Lynnette Y. Overby and James H. Humphrey.
- New York : AMS Press, 1989-
- v. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Volume 7 edited by Lynnettte Young Overby and Billie Lepczyk
Includes bibliographies and index.
VOLUME 1 : 1. The relationship between creative ability in dance, cognitive style, and creative attributes / 2. The effects of running on the degree of hip flexion: implications for dancers / 3. Relationships among physique, body composition, and performance characteristics of preprofessional, female collegiate ballet dancers / 4. An exploratory study of the relationship of hemispheric preferences on instructional styles of dance educators / 5. Effects of a limited practice on balancing performance of beginning, intermediate, and advanced modern dancers / 6. Martha Graham's movement invention viewed through Laban analysis / 7. Retirement and the professional ballet dancer at age 30: women at a turning point / 8. Parallel visions: Mary Wigman and the German expressionists / 9. Banjo-Cunningham's lost "American" piece / 10. Anna Halprin: an artist and an influence / 11. Catherine Littlefield and Anna Sokolow: artists reflecting society in the 1930s / 12. Counting words can supplement traditional methods of textual analysis of dance philosophy / 13. A philosophy of dance as art for non-philosophers / 14. On speaking to the audience without words: is dance a language? / 15. The integrative role of dance in Shangana-Tsonga social institutions / 16. Educating the dancer in Cuba / 17. Dance: creative process from a contemplative point of view / 18. Dance teaching research: a progress report / 19. The anthropology of dance / 20. The psychology of dance: a research review / Mary Alice Brennan -- Inez Ferraco -- James M. Gudgeon ; Patricia A. Eisenman ; Steve Johnson, and Barbara Hamblin -- Grace Goc Karp and Diane B. Walker -- Lela June Stoner, Nadine Jette, and Jacqueline Shick -- Billie Lepczyk -- Susan A. Lee -- Dianne S. Howe -- Elyn Feldman -- Diane M. Turner -- Nancy BrooksSchmitz -- Judith B. Alter -- Wilhelmina O. Sarai-Clark -- Penelope Hanstein -- Thomas F. Johnston -- Susan V. Cashion -- Irini Nadel Rockwell -- Madeline Lord -- Judith Lynne Hanna --20. Susan L. Puretz. VOLUME 2 : 1. Dancing masters in eighteenth-century Philadelphia / 2. A retrospective of dance as viewed by the writers of Dance magazine and Dance observer between 1926-1934 / 3. New dance in a new deal era / 4. The influence of modern dance on American musical theatre choreography of the 1940s / 5. Performing arts students: their creative potential, preference for high energy activities, and personality characteristics: an analysis of variance / 6. The effects of movement notation on the performance cognitions and attitudes of beginning ballet students at the college level / 7. Advertising with dance: body, sex, and gender / 8. A historical survey of the Yupik inviting, in dance / 9. Context meaning and function in Inupiaq dance / 10. Dance-movement therapy: a review and analysis of the literature / Lynn Matluck Brrooks -- Vera Lundhal -- Mark Wheeler -- Lisa Jo Sagolla -- Judith Alter-- Nancy H. Moses -- Judith Lynne Hanna -- Thomas F. Johnston -- Thomas F. Johnston -- Susan L. Puretz. VOLUME 3 : 1. Anne Schley Duggan: portrait of a dance educator / 2. A look at dance in higher education in the 1920s, 1940s, and 1986-87 / 3. Influences affecting K-8 dance education in the United States: 1950-1980 / 4. Erick Hawkins: a new perspective / 5. A comparison of novice and experienced dancers' body awareness / 6. The development of a spatial kinesthetic awareness measuring instrument for use with beginning dance students / 7. Attitudes toward dance among students entering university physical education programs / 8. Domain discrimination in dance attitude research / 9. Toward a quantitative analysis of classic ballet: the upper body technique viewed through choreutics / 10. A prismatic approach to the analysis of style in dance / 11. Timing in West African dance perfomance: the influence of extramusical factors on rhythm / 12. The social role of Alaska Athabascan potlatch dancing / 13. The ceremonial roots of Tlingit dance / Sandra R. Weeks -- Christalia O. Volaitis -- Nancy BrooksSchmitz -- Sheryl Popkin Triebe -- Lynnette Young Overby -- Sandra Minton and Jeffrey Steffen -- A. Brian Nielsen, Marnie E. Rutledge, and Dorothy J. Harris -- Nelson D. Neal and Sylvie Fortin -- Billie Lepczyk -- Betsey Goodling Gibbons -- Robert W. Nicholls -- Thomas F. Johnston -- Thomas F. Johnston. VOLUME 4 : 1. Performance psychology for dancers: overview and future trends / 2. The relationship of dance training to the body image: a review of the literature / 3. An exploration of improvisational and psychological techniques to facilitate the use of personal themes in choreography / 4. Young talent case study: an anlysis of the effect of arts-in-education programming on the motivation, academic performance, and personal development of inner city youth involved in the young talent program / 5. The effect of dance/movement education of the self-concept of fourth and fifth grade developmentally handicapped students / 6. How a teacher and her students successfully accomplish a creative dance task in a natural teaching situation / 7. Duncan and Nijinsky: a comparative study of the Apollonian and Dionysian elements in their work / 8. Mary Wigman: one artist's definition of dance / 9. Katherine Dunham and the African basis of American modern dance: a parallel between forms / 10. Alwin Nikolais, the person and the genius: as viewed by writers and critics throughout the last half century / 11. A teacher's teacher: Mary Beegle and her theory of dance / 12. A contrastive study of movement style in dance through the Laban perspective / 13. "Chhau" performance at Nimdih and its social context / 14. Qualitative methods and dance science: researching the dancer's experience / Choreographics: a focus for dance history / Christine Hanrahan -- Lynnette Young Overby -- Jennifer Predock and Samuel Roll -- Nancy BrooksSchmitz, Dianne Mazzulla, and Janyce Hyatt -- Beverly J. Allen -- Madeline Lord and Ray McDermott -- Alice Block -- Dianne S. Howe -- Julie A. Kerr -- Vera Lundahl -- Judy Alter -- Billie Lepczyk -- Urmimala Sarkar -- Susan Lee -- Lynn Matluck Brooks. VOLUME 5 : 1. Teaching ethical decision-making to prospective dance educators: an action research project / 2. Digital improvisation: interactive multimedia for dance education / 3. "Ladies and gentlemen: what do you see? What do you feel?" A story of connected curriculum in a third grade dance education setting / 4. The Etudes Project: inspiring innovations for dance education / 5. Body thinking beyond dance / 6. Body language and learning: insights for K-12 education / 7. The voices of teachers: the impact of professional developments on the interdisciplinary teaching of dance / 8. Dancing out loud: children's use of language while creating dances / 9. Kinetic awareness padagogy: Elaine Summers and second-generation practitioners / 10. Kinetic literacy : motif writing in K-5 dance education / Susan W. Stinson -- Mila Parrish -- Karen E. Bond and Byron Richard -- Diane B. McGhee -- Michele Root-Bernstein and Robert Root-Bernstein -- Judith Lynne Hanna -- Lynnette Young Overby -- Theresa Purcell Cone -- Jill Green -- Mila Parrish. VOLUME 6 : 1. The educational perspectives of professors in a dance teacher preparation program: a case study at the Federal University of Viçosa, Brasil / 2. Apollo, Dionysus: and/or? A study of the Apollonian and Dionysian elements in the work of Isadora Duncan and Vaslav Nijinsky / 3. The Triangle Assessment Project (TAP) / 4. Students' perception of the role of an internship in dance teacher preparation for Hong Kong secondary schools / 5. Shared symbols: an investigation into the symbols conveyed through dance and sculpture / 6. Visible difference: modern dance and the representation of gender in postwar America / 7. Who am I? Who are we?: Children perform identity, difference, and community in an intergenerational dance setting / Dance education in social and cultural perspective / Alba Pedreira Vieira -- Alice Bloch -- Margaret Musmon, Laurie Milliken, and Ann Marie Gallo -- Paulette Côté and Susan Street -- Miriam Giguere -- Rebekah J. Kowal -- Karen E. Bond, Monica Cameron Frichtel, and Hannah Park -- Doug Risner. VOLUME 7 : 1. Focus on Movement Analysis. Dance: Current Selected Research: A Retrospective / 2. Aesthetics and Healing: Authentic Movement in Dance-Theater Composition / 3. Constructionist Dance Literacy: Unleashing the Potential of Motif Notation / 4. Increasing Psychosomatic Understanding through Laban Movement Analysis and Somatic-Oriented Frameworks: Connections of Performance Processes to Knowledge Construction / 5. The Seven Movements of Dancing Viewed through Laban Movement Analysis / Billie Lepczyk. Dance Education. Role of Dance in Violence Prevention Programs for Youth / 6. Enhancing Accessibility: Interactive Gateway Creating Online Curriculum for Dance Education / 7. Dancing Boys Lives: A Study of Male Participation in Pre-Professional Dance Training and Education in the United States / 8. The Movements of Traditional and Transgressive Dance Teaching in Brazilian Higher Education: A Case Study / 9. Impact of Participation in the Creative Dance Clubs on the Social, Personal, and Cognitive Growth of Fourth- and Fifth- Grade Students at PS 722 / Lynnette Young Overby -- Ciane Fernandes -- Teresa L. Heiland -- Becky Dyer -- Martha Eddy -- Mila Parrish -- Douglas Risner -- Alba Pedreira Vieira -- Sandra Stratton-Gonzolez.