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Essential guide to dance / Linda Ashley.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Hodder Education, 2008Edition: Third editionDescription: x, 347 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0340968389
  • 9780340968383
Other title:
  • Dance [Parallel title]
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 792.8 23
LOC classification:
  • GV1594 .A75 2008
Contents:
Safe dance practice -- The dancer in performance -- The constituent features of dance: movement -- The constituent features of dance: the physical setting -- The constituent features of dance: the aural setting -- Choreography -- skills and ideas -- Making and rehearsing dances -- Dance appreciation -- Recording dance -- Dance today and tomorrow.
Summary: This third edition of the bestselling text Essential Guide to Dance is thoroughly updated to meet the new AS/A2 specifications and relevant Applied A-levels, BTEC and other Dance qualifications. Now in full colour, highly illustrated, and packed with tasks and activities to cover all aspects of current courses, this text will appeal to both teachers and students. Students are brought right up to date with clear explanations of choreography, performance and appreciation of Dance, as well as recent examples of new set works and choreographers. With further video and photo interactive analysis tasks, the addition of short revision tests and updated professional examples alongside many contemporary photographs, Essential Guide to Dance Third Edition provides students with comprehensive support and guidance. Accompanying the text is a student CD with tips to improve technique and performance. Further support is available for teachers via a dedicated website providing invaluable resources such as handouts, further assignments and exemplar video footage of best practice in Dance. With its emphasis on the practical aspects of Dance and such interactive features that encourage effective learning, Essential Guide to Dance Third Edition will be essential for all students of Dance and their teachers. Linda Ashley has extensive experience as a writer, choreographer, performer and teacher of Dance. Linda is currently Dance Research Leader at AUT University, New Zealand, Linda has written several Dance titles, published in the UK and New Zealand, including the two previous bestselling editions of Essential Guide to Dance, both published by Hodder.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 792.8 ASH (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A378736B
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Previous ed.: London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2002.

Author currently Dance Research Leader at AUT, New Zealand.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Safe dance practice -- The dancer in performance -- The constituent features of dance: movement -- The constituent features of dance: the physical setting -- The constituent features of dance: the aural setting -- Choreography -- skills and ideas -- Making and rehearsing dances -- Dance appreciation -- Recording dance -- Dance today and tomorrow.

This third edition of the bestselling text Essential Guide to Dance is thoroughly updated to meet the new AS/A2 specifications and relevant Applied A-levels, BTEC and other Dance qualifications. Now in full colour, highly illustrated, and packed with tasks and activities to cover all aspects of current courses, this text will appeal to both teachers and students. Students are brought right up to date with clear explanations of choreography, performance and appreciation of Dance, as well as recent examples of new set works and choreographers. With further video and photo interactive analysis tasks, the addition of short revision tests and updated professional examples alongside many contemporary photographs, Essential Guide to Dance Third Edition provides students with comprehensive support and guidance. Accompanying the text is a student CD with tips to improve technique and performance. Further support is available for teachers via a dedicated website providing invaluable resources such as handouts, further assignments and exemplar video footage of best practice in Dance. With its emphasis on the practical aspects of Dance and such interactive features that encourage effective learning, Essential Guide to Dance Third Edition will be essential for all students of Dance and their teachers. Linda Ashley has extensive experience as a writer, choreographer, performer and teacher of Dance. Linda is currently Dance Research Leader at AUT University, New Zealand, Linda has written several Dance titles, published in the UK and New Zealand, including the two previous bestselling editions of Essential Guide to Dance, both published by Hodder.

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