Presented at the summer 1969 advanced seminar on Aesthetics in Education held at the Boston University School of Education. (EJS)

The three general types of disco dancing are: (1) free-style dances, usually performed by partners without traditional hand contact; (2) joined couple dances; and (3) "line" dances. (CJ)

An English teacher relates how a summer course in dance improved her teaching abilities. (JD)

Twenty-eight resources dealing with children's dance are listed. (LH)

A crossword puzzle for social dance using terminology of seven dances is presented. (JMF)

Variations of some common games such as Bingo are applied to dance and used to teach, review, and test dance skills, history, rhythm, style, and terminology. (JMF)

The "why" of teaching creative writing or dancing lies in the visions of students making meaning out of life, expressing life through a merger of sensitivity and precision. (MB)

Uses the author's experiences as a performer, choreographer, artistic director, and teacher to investigate the notion of the performer's presence in dance, providing examples from her teaching a graduate module in performance making (choreography) to illustrate how performance practice and poststructuralist theory can influence each other. Three…

Presents nine rules to help directors get started as a choreographer and five characteristics to look for in a potential student choreographer. (PRA)

An interview with Hugo Fiorato, the conductor of the New York City Ballet, recounts his musical education, special problems of conducting for a ballet company, the training of orchestra members and conductors, and mentorship. (DB)

Factor analysis of an initial sample of 368 11-16 year-olds and a test with 1,668 confirmed the reliability and validity of a dance attitude instrument. Two subscales, ballet and male dancers, produced valid measurements of attitudes, but dance performance and presentation scales were less reliable. (SK)

The arts have always gotten short shrift in the schools, but the current standardized testing craze has put them in even greater jeopardy. At one elementary school in Oregon, however, the arts take center stage for a full week each year. The week includes the following themed days: (1) Dance Day; (2) Music Day; (3) Theater Day; and (4) Writing…

Traditional composition classes teach the tools of choreographic craft, yet leave students in an odd limbo in which they create a special breed of "college dance" that has little to do with the current dance world. In the twenty-first century, choreography teachers must go beyond an emphasis on traditional craft and help students find their own…

Aim: To describe sports participation in Australian adolescents. Method: Use of time, demographic, pedometer and anthropometric data were collected on a random sample of 2200 9-16 year olds. Results: Moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) constituted 29% of all energy expenditure, and sport 58% of MVPA energy expenditure. Sports…

At colleges nationwide, students from diverse racial, cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds meet and befriend each other under the auspices of club sports. Adam Pruett, the recreational sports coordinator at the University of California, Los Angeles, says any cultural uneasiness is overcome by the students' shared passion for the particular…