| Description |
1 online resource (153 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction to the Series; Acknowledgements; List of Plates; Introduction; Why teach dance to the deaf?; Dance provision in UK schools for the deaf and hard of hearing; Starting out: problems, myths, misconceptions; Language, intellect, memory, 'muscle memory', imagination; Categories of hearing loss; Issues -- hearing and radio aids; Issues -- segregation and mainstreaming; Issues -- age; Chapter 1. Communication; Teachers with children as dancers; To sign or not to sign? -- 'total communication' |
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Focusing attention: games and other methodsDancers and sound sources; Dancers and space: spatial awareness; Dancers with other dancers: socialization; Chapter 2. Inner Rhythm; Breathing; Silence; Dalcroze; Chapter 3. The Workshop or Class; Purpose and aims; Warm-ups and exercises; Tempo awareness; Dynamic awareness; Travelling, jumping; Deep breathing; Cooperation in imaginative dance; Dance into drama; Shaping actions into dance; Creativity; Sequences; Process and product; Performance; Chapter 4. Creative Dance: Themes; Noah's ark; balloons; water; underwater creatures; mermaids; seaside |
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Rainwind; snow and ice; animals; clowns; festivals; emotions; dance dramas; folk and fairy tales; work activities; robots; sport; flight; shape; giant signs; pop dance; Chapter 5. Pulse and Rhythm; Rhythmic exercise; Folk dances; Clapping; Drumming; Dance notation; Music notation; Music-making; Chapter 6. Rhythm into Dance; The floor as a drum'; Drumming and dancing; Tap dancing; Themes; Conducting; 'Which' game; 'Watch!' game; Drum and dance relay; Rhythms into dance; Dancing a rhythmic sequence; Conversations and duets; Drum and dance into dance; The dancer as musician |
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Chapter 7. Inner Rhythm for AllBibliography; Appendices; Resources; Musical instruments; Recordings; Useful addresses; The National Curriculum; Contents of the accompanying video; Index |
| Summary |
First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781134361502 |
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1134361505 |
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