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This is a thoroughly modern series looking at all aspects of different styles of dance, including choreography, performance and presentation, history, costumes, and music.The stunning design and beautiful photography offer a cultural perspective on dance. It promotes an alternative to traditional sports subjects that will appeal particularly to girls. It covers a high-interest topic to get girls reading. ... Read more

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This is a thoroughly modern series looking at all aspects of different styles of dance, including choreography, performance and presentation, history, costumes, and music.The stunning design and beautiful photography offer a cultural perspective on dance. It promotes an alternative to traditional sports subjects that will appeal particularly to girls. It covers a high-interest topic to get girls reading. ... Read more

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This is a thoroughly modern series looking at all aspects of different styles of dance, including choreography, performance and presentation, history, costumes, and music.The stunning design and beautiful photography offer a cultural perspective on dance. It promotes an alternative to traditional sports subjects that will appeal particularly to girls. It covers a high-interest topic to get girls reading. ... Read more

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This is a thoroughly modern series looking at all aspects of different styles of dance, including choreography, performance and presentation, history, costumes, and music.The stunning design and beautiful photography offer a cultural perspective on dance. It promotes an alternative to traditional sports subjects that will appeal particularly to girls. It covers a high-interest topic to get girls reading. ... Read more

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This is a thoroughly modern series looking at all aspects of different styles of dance, including choreography, performance and presentation, history, costumes, and music.The stunning design and beautiful photography offer a cultural perspective on dance. It promotes an alternative to traditional sports subjects that will appeal particularly to girls. It covers a high-interest topic to get girls reading. ... Read more

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For years, K-12 teachers have been relying on the invaluable tools and blueprints in Building Dances and Building More Dances to help their students put movements together. Now, with Building Dances, Second Edition, the original text has been significantly expanded and updated to give you even more tools to guide your students as they experiment with the creative process—even if you’ve never taught or choreographed dance.

Like the earlier books, this guide puts you in the role of facilitator rather than demonstrator. Using the dance construction models provided, you’ll explain the material, teach the necessary skills, direct the action, and assess the outcomes . . . letting your students focus on the creative work.

Building Dances, Second Edition, follows the same winning approach that made the first edition so popular. It takes you step by step through the choreographic process, with sample lesson plans, warm-up ideas, and seven easy steps to follow when building a dance, plus even more great material:

· A convenient, expanded, ready-to-use deck of Deal-A-Dance cards · Updated dance-building activities, called Dance Construction Models, reformatted and expanded to include loads of new information and six new activities· An expanded glossary explaining important dance terms in everyday language· New forms and checklists to make the assessment process easier for you and your students

This edition contains a total of 15 Dance Construction Models, including 6 never before published. Each construction model provides concrete ideas to help students shape dance movements, perhaps to create a scene, communicate a story, foster an idea, or interpret a piece of music. And now the Dance Construction Models have been redesigned to make them even easier to use! Each one includes a description of the activity or procedure, an example, cross-references to the national standards for dance and for physical education, easy adaptations for three different grade levels (grades K-4, 5-8, and 9-12), and criteria for student assessments. You’ll find four types of sample rubrics for each one, with specific criteria for movement skills, cognitive skills, choreographic and creative process, and social and aesthetic skills.

The unique Deal-a-Dance cards—one of the most popular Dance Construction Models—have also been expanded and reformatted to get students even more involved in creating and assessing their own work. The cards provide more than 230 movement ideas to get the creative juices flowing. Each card presents a definition of a selected movement term, a description of that movement, multiple suggestions for students to try, challenges that encourage them to put movements together to form phrases and dances, and a self-evaluation question. The cards are excellent hands-on tools that allow students to work at their own pace, either individually or in small groups. You can use them for a single lesson, a unit, or an entire semester of work.

This edition also contains new ideas to help you connect dance to other disciplines and increase students’ engagement, plus new criteria for writing rubrics and suggestions on how to expand simple dances into whole productions for PTA and other student performance settings.

Whether you’re a physical education teacher, drama coach, music teacher, dance teacher, classroom teacher, or recreation specialist, this book will help you stimulate your students’ imaginations. Use it alone or together with the companion resource, Building More Dances, to help your students experience the joy of building their own dances. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (3)

Lame-0
I bought this book with high expectations.I teach dance, drama, and art to elementary school children and I found only one really good lesson from this book.There is a bunch of information on how to use national standards for dance in the classroom and some decent rubics, but as a whole...I wished I would have saved my money.

Great book--dance cards have practical application
I teach dance to adult women, and, although this book is geared towards teaching children, I have found the dance cards enormously useful.Using the suggestion in the book to pass out the cards to students in small subgroups, I have seen amazing creativity result in the mini-choreographies that they make.Using the cards is a great 10-15 minute class exercise that really enhances creativity.I've received good feedback from students, and, in my opinion, the cards alone are worth the price of the book.The book also contains some good basic information about body positioning, choreography, and how to use the cards.The book is written in very clear language, with clear illustrations and graphics.I'd rate it an A+.

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I thin kthe book was very interesting. Andas a vocal artist I dance and it gave me some tips on better dance moves and i think my choreographer that of it as a blessing (i gave her a copy too). Thanks ... Read more

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Winner, 2008 Lewis Mumford Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Technics given by the Media Ecology Association (MEA). and Winner, Music and the Performing Arts category, 2007 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Awards for Excellence Competition presented by the Association of American Publishers, Inc.

The past decade has seen an extraordinarily intense period of experimentation with computer technology within the performing arts. Digital media has been increasingly incorporated into live theater and dance, and new forms of interactive performance have emerged in participatory installations, on CD-ROM, and on the Web. In Digital Performance, Steve Dixon traces the evolution of these practices, presents detailed accounts of key practitioners and performances, and analyzes the theoretical, artistic, and technological contexts of this form of new media art.

Dixon finds precursors to today's digital performances in past forms of theatrical technology that range from the deus ex machina of classical Greek drama to Wagner's Gesamtkunstwerk (concept of the total artwork), and draws parallels between contemporary work and the theories and practices of Constructivism, Dada, Surrealism, Expressionism, Futurism, and multimedia pioneers of the twentieth century. For a theoretical perspective on digital performance, Dixon draws on the work of Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes, Jean Baudrillard, and others.

To document and analyze contemporary digital performance practice, Dixon considers changes in the representation of the body, space, and time. He considers virtual bodies, avatars, and digital doubles, as well as performances by artists including Stelarc, Robert Lepage, Merce Cunningham, Laurie Anderson, Blast Theory, and Eduardo Kac. He investigates new media’s novel approaches to creating theatrical spectacle, including virtual reality and robot performance work, telematic performances in which remote locations are linked in real time, Webcams, and online drama communities, and considers the "extratemporal" illusion created by some technological theater works. Finally, he defines categories of interactivity, from navigational to participatory and collaborative. Dixon challenges dominant theoretical approaches to digital performance—including what he calls postmodernism’s denial of the new—and offers a series of boldly original arguments in their place. ... Read more

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Good research tool
This detailed book goes through the history of digital performance until about the 1990's. It has been very useful for my thesis research which focused in dance and digital media. Sometimes I found the organization a bit difficult for my area of focus, but I liked the way the chapters were grouped regardless. The tissue-thin pages were filled with well-documented and organized data. A good book to have in your library if you research this particular field. Not for light reading (unless you are Hermione Granger). ... Read more

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New editions of the successful series of teaching plans to helpnon-specialist primary teachers to implement the physical educationcurriculum. Each book contains photocopiable lesson plans, withadditional teacher notes, to help teach imaginitively and effectively.Each book covers the National Curriculum requirements for each year,covering games, gymnastic activities and dance in clearly labelledsections. A specially designed music CD is sold separately to accompany theseries and delivers musical accompaniment to the dance sections of eachbook. Leapfrogs are packed with invaluable information on how toteach PE, its value and importance to the school curriculum, inaddition to necessary subject knowledge, teaching strategies,progression and achievement, and assessment. New material in the new editions: How to structure a first lessonwith a new class; Using 'themes' in PE (including body parts/bodyshapes/space/partner work/sequences); and Progressing gymnasticactivities. The introductory material has been revised, examining theimportance of PE in improving the health and wellbeing of children.Also includes a CD of all lesson plans in PDF format for ease of use."These lesson plans are a godsend for those of us with no specialism in PE in the primary School. Each covers a whole year from Foundation Stage to Year 6." The Teacher 'Any teacher following Jim Hall's advice on lesson planning will beensuring that their pupils have a high quality of experience inphysical education which should mean instilling in them a love of sportand physical activity for life.' Kate Hoey MP ... Read more

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New editions of the successful series of teaching plans to helpnon-specialist primary teachers to implement the physical educationcurriculum. Each book contains photocopiable lesson plans, withadditional teacher notes, to help teach imaginitively and effectively.Each book covers the National Curriculum requirements for each year,covering games, gymnastic activities and dance in clearly labelledsections. A specially designed music CD is sold separately to accompany theseries and delivers musical accompaniment to the dance sections of eachbook. Leapfrogs are packed with invaluable information on how toteach PE, its value and importance to the school curriculum, inaddition to necessary subject knowledge, teaching strategies,progression and achievement, and assessment. New material in the new editions: How to structure a first lessonwith a new class; Using 'themes' in PE (including body parts/bodyshapes/space/partner work/sequences); and Progressing gymnasticactivities. The introductory material has been revised, examining theimportance of PE in improving the health and wellbeing of children.Also now includes a CD of all lessons in PDF format for ease of use." These lesson plans are a godsend for those of us with no specialism in PE in the primary school. Each covers a whole year from Foundation Stage to Year 6." The Teacher 'Any teacher following Jim Hall's advice on lesson planning will be ensuring that their pupils have a high quality of experience in physical education which should mean instilling in them a love of sport and physical activity for life.' Kate Hoey MP ... Read more

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New editions of the successful series of teaching plans to helpnon-specialist primary teachers to implement the physical educationcurriculum. Each book contains photocopiable lesson plans, withadditional teacher notes, to help teach imaginitively and effectively.Each book covers the National Curriculum requirements for each year,covering games, gymnastic activities and dance in clearly labelledsections.A specially designed music CD is sold separately to accompany theseries and delivers musical accompaniment to the dance sections of eachbook. Leapfrogs are packed with invaluable information on how toteach PE, its value and importance to the school curriculum, inaddition to necessary subject knowledge, teaching strategies,progression and achievement, and assessment. New material in the new editions: How to structure a first lessonwith a new class; Using 'themes' in PE (including body parts/bodyshapes/space/partner work/sequences); and Progressing gymnasticactivities. The introductory material has been revised, examining theimportance of PE in improving the health and wellbeing of children.Also includes a CD of all lesson plans in PDF format for ease of use."These lesson plans are a godsend for those of us with no specialism in PE in the primary School. Each covers a whole year from Foundation Stage to Year 6." The Teacher 'Any teacher following Jim Hall's advice on lesson planning will beensuring that their pupils have a high quality of experience inphysical education which should mean instilling in them a love of sportand physical activity for life.' Kate Hoey MP ... Read more

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New editions of the successful series of teaching plans to helpnon-specialist primary teachers to implement the physical educationcurriculum. Each book contains photocopiable lesson plans, withadditional teacher notes, to help teach imaginitively and effectively.Each book covers the National Curriculum requirements for each year,covering games, gymnastic activities and dance in clearly labelledsections. A specially designed music CD is sold separately to accompany theseries and delivers musical accompaniment to the dance sections of eachbook. Leapfrogs are packed with invaluable information on how toteach PE, its value and importance to the school curriculum, inaddition to necessary subject knowledge, teaching strategies,progression and achievement, and assessment. New material in the new editions: How to structure a first lessonwith a new class; Using 'themes' in PE (including body parts/bodyshapes/space/partner work/sequences); and Progressing gymnasticactivities. The introductory material has been revised, examining theimportance of PE in improving the health and wellbeing of children. Also now includes a CD of printable PDFs for ease of use."These lesson plans are a godsend for those of us with no specialism in PE in the primary School. Each covers a whole year from Foundation Stage to Year 6." The Teacher 'Any teacher following Jim Hall's advice on lesson planning will beensuring that their pupils have a high quality of experience inphysical education which should mean instilling in them a love of sportand physical activity for life.' Kate Hoey MP ... Read more

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Dance and cheerleading have a lot in common. Both are physically demanding activities requiring a great deal of skill and practice. Both also require many of the same mental and physical skills. In this book, you'll learn about some techniques used by dancers that can be applied to cheerleading. From mental attitude to physical exercises to dance moves and choreography, it's all here. "Techniques of Dance for Cheerleading" gives you the tools you need to start taking your cheerleading to the next level. Your team will compete with higher energy and better skills, and you'll find yourself having more fun than ever! ... Read more