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Dance Composition Basics

Engage your students by allowing them to witness a progression that takes them from conceiving and refining an idea to improvising and solving movement problems to shaping and performing dances.

Dance Anatomy and Kinesiology

The instruction to �use more of the back of your leg� is sometimes employed by teachers to encourage greater use of the hamstring muscles when the feet are weight bearing, particularly when the teacher feels that the student is overusing the �front of the legs� (quadriceps femoris).

Dance Anatomy

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

Lesson Plans for Creative Dance eBook

Learn how each action in "The Chinook" relates to the dance and how those actions play through the sequence.

Dance Improvisations

How many body parts? is a great activity you can start using right away.

Teaching Children Dance-3rd Edition

Today, we are going to do a dance about the day in the life of a frog.

Teaching Children Dance-3rd Edition

This dance uses locomotor movements or wheelchair movement and still shapes.

Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery-2nd Edition

Imagine you are wringing a towel while keeping it in a straight line. Visualize the facet of the navicular spinning on the head of the talus. Notice that the medial aspect of the transverse tarsal joint is moving more than the lateral. After twisting one foot, compare the feel and balance of both feet in a standing position.

Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery-2nd Edition

Often muscles seem to be running in discrete lines and directions, with insertions and origins being discernable.

Dynamic Alignment Through Imagery 2nd Edition eBook

Ballet Tap Dance HK Rewards Imagery

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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.