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This classic "must have" is NDA's most popular publication. Includes locomotor/nonlocomotor movement, assessment, and interdisciplinary topics.
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Preface
An Overview: Brain-Compatible Dance Education
Chapter 1 Lesson Plan Section 1: Warming Up
Chapter 2 Lesson Plan Section 2: Exploring the Concept
Chapter 3 Lesson Plan Section 3: Developing Skills
Chapter 4 Lesson Plan Section 4: Creating
Chapter 5 Lesson Plan Section 5: Cooling Down
Appendix A: Neurological Development and Appropriate Dance Content
Appendix B: Assessment
Appendix C: Motif Notation and Language of Dance
Appendix D: Patterns of Coordination
Appendix E: Three Articles
Appendix F: Creative Dance Crib Sheet
Appendix G: Lesson Plans
Appendix H: Resources
Bibliography
Anne Green Gilbert founded the Creative Dance Center and
Kaleidoscope Dance Company in Seattle, Washington, in 1981 and the
Summer Dance Institute for Teachers in 1994. Anne has had a varied
teaching career. She started as an elementary school teacher, moved on
to dance and pedagogy classes at the University of Illinois at Chicago
and University of Washington, then taught children’s dance classes at
Cornish College and Bill Evans/Dance Theatre Seattle. She has been an
adjunct professor at Seattle Pacific University for many years and
taught for Lesley University’s Outreach master’s program for 10 years.
For the past three decades, Anne has taught toddlers through adults at
Creative Dance Center, trained teachers through her Summer Dance
Institute, and conducted hundreds of workshops and residencies across
the United States and abroad. Anne developed the BrainDance, a focusing
warm-up exercise, in 2000. The BrainDance is used in many schools,
studios, and homes around the world. Anne is internationally recognized
for her work with young artists and her creative process. She has
choreographed dances for university dance companies as well as Northwest
dance companies and Kaleidoscope.
Anne is the author of Teaching the Three Rs Through Movement,
Creative Dance for All Ages, Brain-Compatible Dance Education, Teaching
Creative Dance (DVD), and BrainDance (DVD), and numerous
articles. She is an active member of the National Dance Association,
National Dance Education Organization, and Dance and the Child
International (daCi). Anne served on the daCi board for 12 years. She is
founder and past president of the Dance Educators Association of
Washington, an organization promoting quality dance education in all
Washington State K-12 schools. As a member of the Arts Education
Standards project, she helped write the Washington State Dance Standards
and Learning Goals. Anne is the recipient of several awards, including
the NDA Scholar/Artist award in 2005, the National Dance Education
Organization Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011, and the Lawrence Tenney
Stevens American Dance Award for her work with boys and men in dance in
2014.
Anne is the mother of three Kaleidoscope alums and grandmother of six
dancing grandchildren. She lives in Seattle with her husband.