Dance : current selected research. Volume 4 / edited by Lynnette Young Overby and James H. Humphrey. - 252 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - Dance (New York, NY : 1988) . - Dance (New York, NY : 1988). .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

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Dance--Psychological aspects
Dance--Study and teaching
Dance--History and criticism
Dance--Social aspects
Dance--Research

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