This publication provides arts specialists and gifted coordinators with procedures for identifying students who are gifted in dance. All personnel who are developing district identification procedures and trained individuals who will be involved in the screening and identification of gifted children in the area of dance should read this handbook.…

This is a description of the TWC (Teachers and Writers Collaborative) workshops and projects which send poets (such as Kenneth Koch), actors, dancers and artists into the classroom. (JA)

Those Africans brought over to the Western Hemisphere left a strong impression on culture and language of Spanish colonizers. This effect has been exemplified in the religion, music, dance, and food of the republics of the Caribbean. (Author/RJ)

There is at least one Western theatre that the historians consistently overlook. This is the theatre of the Mayan Civilization, one that antedates any other in the Western world by hundreds of years. (Author)

Three dance performance tests to assess originality, fluency, and flexibility attributes of female dancers were analyzed with divergent-production measures and personological inventories. Variables were noninterrelated in four clusters for dance performance, verbal and visual-figural creativity, and personological information indicating…

Music's most important function in African societies is to provide occasions for individual and organized group interactions. Modes of communication and interaction include sonic materials, the verbal texts to which sonic materials are set, and the dance through which basic structures in music are articulated. (AM)

A comprehensive model for organizing different approaches used in presenting dance movements focuses on the essential content of movement for elementary school children and examines the development of dance for young children from functional movement to more artistic experiences. (JN)

Evaluation of students' dance performance provides feedback for developing skills and self-awareness. (JD)

Argues that children can dance before they can talk and discusses how teachers can encourage this innate talent. (MP)

New York City's School of Performing Arts offers a high quality college preparation and fine arts curriculum despite financial and physical plant inadequacies. (MB)

"The fortunate correspondence between the dynamic patterns of what the dancer perceives through his kinesthetic nerves and what the spectator is told by his eyes is an example of isomorphism" says Rudolf Arnheim. Here the use of the television medium as interpreter of the dance is evaluated. (Author/RK)

Defines the role of dance in the university as a form of physical education and as a creative movement activity for all. (Editor/RK)

Outlines a method of storytelling and movement whereby the teacher tells a story and the children rework and dance the story. Describes supporting scholarly and philosophical concepts; classic myths of many cultures are noted as most appropriate for this process. Suggests that this method enhances cognitive function, stimulates imagination,…

Compares counseling to the choreography of dance. Reviews other counseling structures, such as the scientific process, and then introduces the "choreography of counseling." Claims that counseling, as in a dance performance, involves an introduction, exploration, exposition, and resolution. Offers principles and techniques for success in each of…