The Black anthropologist, Vera Mae Green, is featured in this analysis of the concept of soul as applied to African-Americans. Music and dance are used to express soul in cultural context. But soul is also a force, an energy which encompasses the Black experience and makes Black culture persevere. (VM)

Describes the emergence of the Dance Theatre of Harlem, which has united both aesthetic excellence and social purpose/community involvement since its founding in 1971. Reveals how current government policies have endangered its funding. Offers a critique of several productions, which showed a new emphasis on technique. (DMM)

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,…

The Acoma Pueblo Indians celebrate Christmas by a dance and a feast which last 4 days. (FF)

A classroom teacher describes how creative movement helps awareness grow.'' (Editor/SP)

Innovative teaching techniques applied to the culturally disadvantaged can open ways of learning that are met with enthusiasm and joy. (CK)

For the first time in the history of Japanese theatre, a training program has been developed to prepare young men outside the kabuki families for careers in this very rigorous and demanding form of theatre. (Author)