A brief survey of the literature of the humanities published in 1975-1976, with special emphasis on the visual and performing arts. (Author)

The Yakima Indians celebrate Christmas by dancing and feasting. (FF)

A dance for early learners is given, as well as the music and with directions for making costumes. (DB)

Uses the ethno-historical approach to illuminate past accounts of Cherokee music written by soldiers, travelers, and missionaries. (ERB)

Lists the ways that children benefit from movement and dance activities and presents a lesson plan. (SJL)

There are no differences in the energy requirements for the soft shoe and slow buck tap dance routines for beginning and intermediate level tap dance students. (JD)

Comparison of 39 adult female dancers indicated that professional ballet dancers had significantly lower maximal oxygen uptake and lower peak blood lactate levels than other dancers (professional modern, university ballet or modern). Professional ballet dancers also had a significantly higher isokinetic hamstring-quadriceps ratio than modern…

Letting the dance work itself educate the student and conducting related experiential classes is an important foundation on which to build readings, discussions, written assignments, and projects. Dance educators can design the educational investigations to be fueled directly from the art and support the investigation with contextual information.…

As a high school English teacher in Ohio and later as a college professor of future teachers in Florida, the author, who loved choreographing dance routines, viewed teaching as consisting of both artistic and technical elements. Like dance which is a combination of artistic and technical skills, teaching also requires the combination of both…

This article reports on a study carried out in a secondary school in the Island of Jamaica. One grade 7 class (n = 20) and one grade 9 class (n = 23) were taught a six-week unit of lessons aimed at facilitating student listening, performing and composing. Rap and Jamaican dance hall music were used as the stimulus for students' rhythmic…

Schools that bring in teaching artists often look beyond their school walls--to other sources of funding and for collaborative partnerships--to work with teaching artists from the community. For the teaching artist with an expansive vision and a willingness to try new approaches, opportunities may be opening up beyond the typical…