Experiencing Dance

By its nature, dance seeks to defy confinement and boundaries, exploring pure movement, ritual, lifestyle, communication, tradition, self-expression, or high art. Traversing time, culture, and aesthetics, dance is not like a mathematical problem or a theory in science. You cannot always prove or disprove its usefulness or validity. Experiencing Dance: A Creative Approach to Dance Appreciation examines the ever-changing culture of dance, provides a basic historical context and appreciation of dance as an art form, and provides the skills and tools related to encourage the reader continue to explore dance. Experiencing Dance: A Creative Approach to Dance Appreciation: Is created for introductory, university-level students or high school performing arts programs. Explores cultural dance origins and definitions, ballet, modern, jazz, African, Indian, Native American, tap, hiphop, Japanese, improvisation, performance art, site-specific work, aesthetics, dance production, the creative process and current trends; exploring video dance, dance fusion, dance modalities, and dance movement therapy. Examines how, in each culture and society, dance has paralleled and affected other art forms. Includes supplementary video guide, vocabulary glossaries, suggested readings, video resource guide, a timeline of dance history dates, and a graph of basic ballet influences through time to help reinforce topics learned.