Teaching Dance Studies

TEACHING DANCE STUDIES introduces key issues in dance pedagogy. Many young people graduating from universities with degrees desire to teach dance, either in college settings or at local dance schools. This collection covers all areas of dance education, including improvisation/choreography; movement analysis; anthropology; theory; music for dance; dance on film; kinesiology/injury prevention; notation; history; archiving; and criticism. Among the contributors are Bill Evans from the University of New Mexico, a leader in Laban/Bartenieff studies, writing on movement analysis; Susan Foster from UCLA, one of the leading dance theoreticians in the country, covering dance theory; Ilene Fox, head of the Dance Notation Bureau, discussing dance notation; and Linda J. Tomko, professor of dance history at U of California, Riverside, addressesing new approaches to teaching the history of all types of dance.
Filling a gap in the field, and including contributions by major experts, this book will strongly appeal to dance history, theory, and pedagogy students, their teachers, and professionals.