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Rhythmic Activities and Dance-2nd Edition

Dance skills can be enhanced when students do not recognize that they are working on dance skills. The activities in this book will motivate students to work on dance skills without any risk of embarrassment.

Gotta Tango

If you are a new dancer, concentrate on what you know.

Dance Anatomy eBook

Even though breathing is the natural process of bringing oxygen into the lungs, most dancers are unclear about exactly how to breathe!

Teaching Movement Education eBook

Begin by selecting the body parts category card and placing it in the pocket chart. Depending on the developmental stage of your students, you may choose to create and place element cards for each of the body parts being covered in a lesson in the pocket chart, too. Learners at a higher developmental stage may not need this specificity. In that case, you may choose to bypass placing these element cards in the pocket chart and concentrate on providing a multitude of activities that use body

Lesson Plans for Creative Dance eBook

An action word for older children can be more challenging, suited to both their physical and verbal understanding. For example, the action �release� (let go) demands a higher level of ability than �grow,� which is suited to younger children. Once the children have explored and developed their individual action sequences they can be used as a basis for work in small groups.

Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery 2nd Edition eBook

Imagine the erector spinae muscles. Lying deep to them are the transversospinalis muscles. Flex your spine and roll down slowly, focusing on the transversospinalis muscles. Roll up again, initiating from the transversospinalis.

Social Dance-3rd Edition

When you dance with a partner, you are sharing space that includes both of you. The basic partner positions used in this book are commonly used in social dancing (see figure 4.1, a-i). Each partner position described in the following paragraphs requires you to connect with a partner in a slightly different manner.

Beginning Tap Dance eBook With Web Resource

The ball�change is one of the most used dance steps.

Beginning Modern Dance eBook With Web Resource

Improvisation is the spontaneous creation of movement. This means that you are inventing the movement as you do it.

Complete Guide to Primary Dance eBook With Web Resource

This is where teachers personalise the learning by setting tasks that meet individual and group needs so that every child is challenged and is able to achieve his or her personal best.

Dance Guide Tap Dance 600 Exercises Choreography

Articles and Links

Teach your students the uniqueness of other cultures through dance and experience

View a video clip from the Multicultural Folk Dance Treasure Chest.

Dance and education make a successful team!

Drawing upon her book, Partnering Dance and Education, Judith Lynne Hanna was an invited speaker at the recent Learning and the Brain Conference in Washington, DC.

HK has your high school and college dance resources

Human Kinetics offers great dance textbooks that will help your students become dance artists.

HK author and acquisition editor, Gayle Kassing, honored as NDA's 2010 Scholar/Artist

Dr. Gayle Kassing will also present at the 2010 AAHPERD in Indianapolis in March.

Listen to an interview with Gayle Kassing on dance history

Podcast interview with Gayle Kassing, author of History of Dance, Dance Teaching Methods and Curriculum Design, and Teaching Beginning Ballet Technique

HK releases first book ever on aerial dance

View a video clip from the DVD included in the first book ever on aerial dance.

HK author Judi Fey wins R. Tait McKenzie award for distinguished service

The award is given annually for leadership and innovation and service in the field of health, physical education, recreation, and dance.

Interview with Dudley Laufman about new book Traditional Barn Dances With Calls & Fiddling

Podcast interview with Dudley Laufman, coauthor of the new book Traditional Barn Dances With Calls & Fiddling

HK author Helene Scheff, RDE, honored with Outstanding Registered Dance Educator Award from the NDEO and Curtain Call Costumes

The author of four Human Kinetics books was the first private sector dance teacher to be honored with this award.