Dance : current selected research / edited by Lynnette Y. Overby and James H. Humphrey.

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 / Mary Alice Brennan -- 2. The effects of running on the degree of hip flexion: implications for dancers / Inez Ferraco -- 3. Relationships among physique, body composition, and performance characteristics of preprofessional, female collegiate ballet dancers / James M. Gudgeon ; Patricia A. Eisenman ; Steve Johnson, and Barbara Hamblin -- 4. An exploratory study of the relationship of hemispheric preferences on instructional styles of dance educators / Grace Goc Karp and Diane B. Walker -- 5. Effects of a limited practice on balancing performance of beginning, intermediate, and advanced modern dancers / Lela June Stoner, Nadine Jette, and Jacqueline Shick -- 6. Martha Graham's movement invention viewed through Laban analysis / Billie Lepczyk -- 7. Retirement and the professional ballet dancer at age 30: women at a turning point / Susan A. Lee -- 8. Parallel visions: Mary Wigman and the German expressionists / Dianne S. Howe -- 9. Banjo-Cunningham's lost "American" piece / Elyn Feldman -- 10. Anna Halprin: an artist and an influence / Diane M. Turner -- 11. Catherine Littlefield and Anna Sokolow: artists reflecting society in the 1930s / Nancy BrooksSchmitz -- 12. Counting words can supplement traditional methods of textual analysis of dance philosophy / Judith B. Alter -- 13. A philosophy of dance as art for non-philosophers / Wilhelmina O. Sarai-Clark -- 14. On speaking to the audience without words: is dance a language? / Penelope Hanstein -- 15. The integrative role of dance in Shangana-Tsonga social institutions / Thomas F. Johnston -- 16. Educating the dancer in Cuba / Susan V. Cashion -- 17. Dance: creative process from a contemplative point of view / Irini Nadel Rockwell -- 18. Dance teaching research: a progress report / Madeline Lord -- 19. The anthropology of dance / Judith Lynne Hanna --20. 20. The psychology of dance: a research review / Susan L. Puretz.

VOLUME 2 : 1. Dancing masters in eighteenth-century Philadelphia / Lynn Matluck Brrooks -- 2. A retrospective of dance as viewed by the writers of Dance magazine and Dance observer between 1926-1934 / Vera Lundhal -- 3. New dance in a new deal era / Mark Wheeler -- 4. The influence of modern dance on American musical theatre choreography of the 1940s / Lisa Jo Sagolla -- 5. Performing arts students: their creative potential, preference for high energy activities, and personality characteristics: an analysis of variance / Judith Alter-- 6. The effects of movement notation on the performance cognitions and attitudes of beginning ballet students at the college level / Nancy H. Moses -- 7. Advertising with dance: body, sex, and gender / Judith Lynne Hanna -- 8. A historical survey of the Yupik inviting, in dance / Thomas F. Johnston -- 9. Context meaning and function in Inupiaq dance / Thomas F. Johnston -- 10. Dance-movement therapy: a review and analysis of the literature / Susan L. Puretz.

VOLUME 3 : 1. Anne Schley Duggan: portrait of a dance educator / Sandra R. Weeks -- 2. A look at dance in higher education in the 1920s, 1940s, and 1986-87 / Christalia O. Volaitis -- 3. Influences affecting K-8 dance education in the United States: 1950-1980 / Nancy BrooksSchmitz -- 4. Erick Hawkins: a new perspective / Sheryl Popkin Triebe -- 5. A comparison of novice and experienced dancers' body awareness / Lynnette Young Overby -- 6. The development of a spatial kinesthetic awareness measuring instrument for use with beginning dance students / Sandra Minton and Jeffrey Steffen -- 7. Attitudes toward dance among students entering university physical education programs / A. Brian Nielsen, Marnie E. Rutledge, and Dorothy J. Harris -- 8. Domain discrimination in dance attitude research / Nelson D. Neal and Sylvie Fortin -- 9. Toward a quantitative analysis of classic ballet: the upper body technique viewed through choreutics / Billie Lepczyk -- 10. A prismatic approach to the analysis of style in dance / Betsey Goodling Gibbons -- 11. Timing in West African dance perfomance: the influence of extramusical factors on rhythm / Robert W. Nicholls -- 12. The social role of Alaska Athabascan potlatch dancing / Thomas F. Johnston -- 13. The ceremonial roots of Tlingit dance / Thomas F. Johnston.

VOLUME 4 : 1. Performance psychology for dancers: overview and future trends / Christine Hanrahan -- 2. The relationship of dance training to the body image: a review of the literature / Lynnette Young Overby -- 3. An exploration of improvisational and psychological techniques to facilitate the use of personal themes in choreography / Jennifer Predock and Samuel Roll -- 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 / Nancy BrooksSchmitz, Dianne Mazzulla, and Janyce Hyatt -- 5. The effect of dance/movement education of the self-concept of fourth and fifth grade developmentally handicapped students / Beverly J. Allen -- 6. How a teacher and her students successfully accomplish a creative dance task in a natural teaching situation / Madeline Lord and Ray McDermott -- 7. Duncan and Nijinsky: a comparative study of the Apollonian and Dionysian elements in their work / Alice Block -- 8. Mary Wigman: one artist's definition of dance / Dianne S. Howe -- 9. Katherine Dunham and the African basis of American modern dance: a parallel between forms / Julie A. Kerr -- 10. Alwin Nikolais, the person and the genius: as viewed by writers and critics throughout the last half century / Vera Lundahl -- 11. A teacher's teacher: Mary Beegle and her theory of dance / Judy Alter -- 12. A contrastive study of movement style in dance through the Laban perspective / Billie Lepczyk -- 13. "Chhau" performance at Nimdih and its social context / Urmimala Sarkar -- 14. Qualitative methods and dance science: researching the dancer's experience / Susan Lee -- Choreographics: a focus for dance history / Lynn Matluck Brooks.

VOLUME 5 : 1. Teaching ethical decision-making to prospective dance educators: an action research project / Susan W. Stinson -- 2. Digital improvisation: interactive multimedia for dance education / Mila Parrish -- 3. "Ladies and gentlemen: what do you see? What do you feel?" A story of connected curriculum in a third grade dance education setting / Karen E. Bond and Byron Richard -- 4. The Etudes Project: inspiring innovations for dance education / Diane B. McGhee -- 5. Body thinking beyond dance / Michele Root-Bernstein and Robert Root-Bernstein -- 6. Body language and learning: insights for K-12 education / Judith Lynne Hanna -- 7. The voices of teachers: the impact of professional developments on the interdisciplinary teaching of dance / Lynnette Young Overby -- 8. Dancing out loud: children's use of language while creating dances / Theresa Purcell Cone -- 9. Kinetic awareness padagogy: Elaine Summers and second-generation practitioners / Jill Green -- 10. Kinetic literacy : motif writing in K-5 dance education / 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 / Alba Pedreira Vieira -- 2. Apollo, Dionysus: and/or? A study of the Apollonian and Dionysian elements in the work of Isadora Duncan and Vaslav Nijinsky / Alice Bloch -- 3. The Triangle Assessment Project (TAP) / Margaret Musmon, Laurie Milliken, and Ann Marie Gallo -- 4. Students' perception of the role of an internship in dance teacher preparation for Hong Kong secondary schools / Paulette Côté and Susan Street -- 5. Shared symbols: an investigation into the symbols conveyed through dance and sculpture / Miriam Giguere -- 6. Visible difference: modern dance and the representation of gender in postwar America / Rebekah J. Kowal -- 7. Who am I? Who are we?: Children perform identity, difference, and community in an intergenerational dance setting / Karen E. Bond, Monica Cameron Frichtel, and Hannah Park -- Dance education in social and cultural perspective / Doug Risner.

VOLUME 7 : 1. Focus on Movement Analysis. Dance: Current Selected Research: A Retrospective / Lynnette Young Overby -- 2. Aesthetics and Healing: Authentic Movement in Dance-Theater Composition / Ciane Fernandes -- 3. Constructionist Dance Literacy: Unleashing the Potential of Motif Notation / Teresa L. Heiland -- 4. Increasing Psychosomatic Understanding through Laban Movement Analysis and Somatic-Oriented Frameworks: Connections of Performance Processes to Knowledge Construction / Becky Dyer -- 5. The Seven Movements of Dancing Viewed through Laban Movement Analysis / Billie Lepczyk. Dance Education. Role of Dance in Violence Prevention Programs for Youth / Martha Eddy -- 6. Enhancing Accessibility: Interactive Gateway Creating Online Curriculum for Dance Education / Mila Parrish -- 7. Dancing Boys Lives: A Study of Male Participation in Pre-Professional Dance Training and Education in the United States / Douglas Risner -- 8. The Movements of Traditional and Transgressive Dance Teaching in Brazilian Higher Education: A Case Study / Alba Pedreira Vieira -- 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 / Sandra Stratton-Gonzolez.