This monograph provides a resource guide for curriculum planners in dance education for grades kindergarten through 12. It is composed of broad guidelines and selected examples rather than specific program prescriptions in order that state and local curricula and courses of study may be developed according to the needs of the population they…

Physical education majors often question the value of dance as part of their degree program. This article discusses attitudes toward dance and its place in the curriculum and gives suggestions for teaching dance. (MT)

To combat the trend of mandatory physical education courses only through the tenth grade, dance teachers must offer a quality program which will motivate students to elect dance courses. A dance program at Woodrow Wilson High in Long Beach, which has students on waiting lists, is described. (MT)

A questionnaire was designed to discover and describe the criteria and methods used in promoting and retaining dance faculty at colleges offering both graduate and undergraduate degrees in dance. Responses are discussed. (MT)

Dance educators, the authors argue, should assume some responsibility for providing alternative dance-related career opportunities to dance students. With proper career guidance and an interdisciplinary approach, many students could become researchers, writers, critics, physiologists, arts managers, dance production designers, technicians, or…

Suggestions to help music teachers adapt the following teaching methods are provided: the Dalcroze method for dance class; the Kodaly method for instrumentalists; the Orff method for string players; the Suzuki method for instrumentalists; and the Kodaly method for chorus. (RM)

This 35-minute VHS videotape is the first in a series of "How To Dance Through Time" videos. It provides how-to instructions to help beginning dancers learn the mid-19th century ballroom couple dances. It introduces dancers to the basic steps, which accompany the romantic dance music of the past. Each dance segment is introduced by a…

This 55-minute VHS videotape is the fifth in a series of "How To Dance Through Time" videos. It continues the tradition of the romance of the mid-19th century couple dances, focusing on Victorian era couple dances. The videotape offers 35 variations of the renowned 19th century couple dances, including the waltz, the polka, the galop,…

Tested the mastery hypothesis as an explanation for the affective benefits of acute exercise. Undergraduate women from a self-selected aerobic dance class rated their exercise performance following class. Affect questionnaires were completed before and at 5 and 20 minutes after the class. Results showed an overall improvement in affect following…

Presents various instructional techniques and examples of dances teachers can use to accommodate and integrate students with ambulatory disabilities, reviewing basic inclusion principles as they relate to dance and providing a suggested progression for teaching dance when including children with ambulatory disabilities. The article illustrates…

One of the great puzzles within the Western concert dance world is why so many artists who create revolutionary works onstage conduct their classes and rehearsals as demagogues. Such teachers are engaged in teaching practices that replicate and reproduce in the dance studio the very power relationships they are often critiquing as unjust and…

What does it means to be a caring dance teacher? The essay reviews the rise of care in education and examines the concept of care as a moral orientation in personal and educational encounters so that connections to dance education are revealed, definitions are arrived at, and important related issues are identified. The essay describes three…

Reconstructions are critical in giving body to the history of dance. For student dancers, participating in reconstructions is a participation in both the legacy of dance and in dance as a form of cultural discourse. When choreographers generate movement vocabulary and improvisational parameters together with performers, the resulting collaborative…

Crossing artistic modalities so that students respond aesthetically to dances rather than through written critiques can enhance the teaching of dance technique. This integrative method encourages the practice of artistry, the act of finding voice, along side the learning of technique. The use of a basic premise from expressive arts--that art…

Those who have advocated for dance in public education have also found their discipline to be easily malleable to fit whatever goals and values seem in style. In different times, dance education has been marketed as a way for students to become healthier, better adjusted, better problem solvers, better critical thinkers, better team players, more…