The American Association for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation now has a Dance Division. (GC)

Reviews outstanding recent black plays and theater groups in New York, Los Angeles, New Orleans, and other urban centers. (KG)

A creative movement and dance program at the New York State School for the Deaf uses multisensory creative activities to help meet language arts objectives. (CL)

An international conference on "Dance and the Child," held in Edmonton, Canada, concerned itself with the belief that dance should become a part of the education of children as performers, creators, and spectators. (JMF)

The dancing craze of the 1970s is the end product of a long and colorful history of American folk and popular dances. (LH)

Examines the problems and potentials of dance regionalism, the return of dance-making to the local community. (Author/RK)

Tested the mastery hypothesis as an explanation for the affective benefits of acute exercise. Undergraduate women from a self-selected aerobic dance class rated their exercise performance following class. Affect questionnaires were completed before and at 5 and 20 minutes after the class. Results showed an overall improvement in affect following…

Presents various instructional techniques and examples of dances teachers can use to accommodate and integrate students with ambulatory disabilities, reviewing basic inclusion principles as they relate to dance and providing a suggested progression for teaching dance when including children with ambulatory disabilities. The article illustrates…

This article discusses the need for certification of fitness instructors in the aerobic dance/dance-exercise industry and presents results of a survey of 18 agencies that certify instructors. Survey data has been compiled and published. An excerpt is included which lists organizations, training, certification and renewal procedures, publications,…

Describes how the story form was used as a device to involve an emotionally and sexually abused youngster in the therapeutic process, finding a link that allowed her to move from her bleak world into a search for beauty, hope, survival, and finally, the celebration of her strong and violated young body. (SR)

Dance embodies all of the multiple intelligences and uses Sternberg's intellectual components (memory, analysis, creativity, practicality). Integrated into the curriculum, dance can expand literacy and make learning more interactive. (SK)

This article highlights the perspectives of young women who have participated in dance for many years. Their viewpoints reveal the unique multimodal nature of embodied learning; in dance classes, teachers and learners communicate through a variety of modes: visual, auditory, kinesthetic, spatial, musical, tactile, gestural, and linguistic. The…

This book is developed to help teach curriculum through the use of movement and dance, while giving students a chance to use their creative problem-solving skills. The text describes a step-by-step process through which instructor and students can learn to transform academic concepts into actions and dances. Theoretical information is also…

A study of the general working conditions, financial status, performance opportunities, funding, and work practices of choreographers in New York City, Chicago (Illinois), San Francisco (California), and Washington, D.C. was conducted in order to develop benchmark statistics. These statistics focus on the national choreographer population and…

This article reports the findings of a study exploring the effects of using videoconferencing (VC) to deliver dance instruction to rural communities. The context of the study is a university community partnership run through blended live and VC instruction with elementary and middle school students in Eloy, Arizona. This research is part of a…