Experiencing Dance: From Student to Dance Artist

Name: Experiencing Dance: From Student to Dance Artist
Author: Helene Scheff
ISBN: 9781450421904

Helene Scheff

Language: English

Published by Human Kinetics Publishers, 2014

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Presents a complete dance education curriculum for secondary school students with more than an introductory knowledge of dance. This text contains more than 45 lessons, designed to help students create, perform, respond to analyse, connect and understand dance in various styles and settings.

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Title: Experiencing Dance: From Student to Dance Artist
Author: Helene Scheff
Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers
Publication year: 2014
Condition: Good
Binding: Hardback
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1450421903
ISBN 13: 9781450421904
Edition: 2nd Edition

Experiencing Dance: From Student to Dance Artist, Second Edition, presents a complete dance education curriculum for high school students who have more than an introductory experience in dance. The text, with more than 45 lessons, will help students create, perform, respond to, analyze, connect, and understand dance in various styles and settings. The lessons focus on all aspects of dance, including understanding movement potential, dance science, dance forms, historical and cultural aspects of dance, and future career directions. The first edition of Experiencing Dance was a best-selling text for high school dance courses and this edition, with its updated lesson plans, full-color design, and student and teacher web resources, promises to be just as popular, if not more so. Experiencing Dance: From Student to Dance Artist, Second Edition, will help students in these ways: Experience dance through creating, performing, responding to, analyzing, connecting with, and understanding dance Understand dance in historical and cultural contexts, its role in community settings, and its potential in career options Learn from a flexible curriculum that can cover one or more years of instruction and that is designed for dancers with more than an introductory experience Engage in a course that meets state and national standards in dance education and addresses 21st-century learning goals Develop a dance portfolio and connect class learning with the real world of dance Experiencing Dance provides everything teachers need in order to teach dance to students. This curriculum includes these features: 15 chapters with more than 45lessons that help students create, perform, respond to, connect with, analyze, and understand dance Lessons that focus on all aspects of dance, including understanding movement potential, dance science, dance forms, historical and cultural aspects of dance, and future career directions Material that is targeted to students who are coming in with previous dance experience Content that meets state and national standards in dance education and connects to 21st-century skills for the workforce Web resources that will help students make the connection between classroom learning and real-world dancing An iBooks interactive version with assignments, video clips, and interactive quizzes

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Helene Scheff is a registered dance educator who has been teaching dance in the private and public sectors since 1960. She has coauthored five other books aimed at dance educators, focusing on helping educators incorporate dance forms in their classes. She believes that every child should have a chance to dance; to that end, in 1986 she began Chance to Dance, an in-school dance program for children in grades 4 through 8. Scheff is a founding member and current meeting planner for the National Dance Education Organization. A graduate of the famed New York City High School of Performing Arts, she is a former dancer with the Joffrey Ballet. She is a founding member and former president of the Dance Alliance of Rhode Island and has served as vice president of Dance for the Eastern District Association of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance. She serves as treasurer for UNITY. Scheff is also a member of the National Dance Association and Dance and the Child International. Scheff has received numerous awards as an educator, including the Outstanding Registered Dance Educator Award and the Meritorious Service Award by Rhode Island Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (RIAHPERD). She was named the RIAHPERD Dance Teacher of the Year in 1996 and was honored as an EDA Outstanding Professional in 1996. She received the RIAHPERD President s Honor Award in 1997 and an NDA Presidential Citation in 1998. She was awarded the Dance Alliance of Rhode Island Dance Legacy Award in 2002. Marty Sprague is a dance educator with over 30 years of experience. She has taught all levels, from early childhood through higher education. Sprague teaches dance at the Juanita Sanchez Educational Complex High School in Providence, Rhode Island, and has been an associate professor at Brown University and an associate professor and clinical supervisor for Roger Williams University education department. Sprague has been involved in program and curriculum development, professional development, policy development, and advocacy support for arts education in Rhode Island. Marty holds an MA in dance education from the Teachers College of Columbia University and a BFA in dance from Boston Conservatory. She was the founding artistic director of the Chance to Dance program. She has written and reviewed dance standards at the district, state, and national levels. Marty has been honored by Dance Teacher magazine as 2004 Dance Teacher of the Year, K-12 and by National Dance Education Organization as the 2005 Dance Educator of the Year, K-12. Marty is currently serving on the executive editorial board for NDEO s Journal of Dance Education and for the Arts Education Policy Review. Susan McGreevy-Nichols is the executive director of the National Dance Education Organization (NDEO). She taught at Roger Williams Middle School in Providence, Rhode Island, from 1974 to 2002. She was the founder and director of the inner-city school's nationally recognized dance program in which more than 300 of the school's 900 students elected to participate. The program treated dance as a core subject; emphasized the creating, performing, and responding processes; and integrated the arts and other core subjects. She developed a cutting-edge reading comprehension program using text as inspiration for original choreography created by children.

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