| Description |
xiii, 165 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm |
| Series |
Focus on dance ; 11 |
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Focus on dance ; 11
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| Contents |
I. Guidelines for Activities with Older Adults. Moving into the third age : AAHPERD serves a new clientele / Rosebel Koss -- An overview of dance / Cynthia P. Ensign -- Guidelines for using dance with older adults / Richard Lopez -- Guidelines for exercise programs for older persons / American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance -- Dance as a vehicle to fitness for the healthy older adult / Marianne McAdam -- Benefits of dance in the process of aging and retirement for the older adult / Sherrill Berryman-Miller -- II. Program Models. Movement activities for older adults / Bernadette Hecox -- Adaptation of social and popular dances for the elderly / Erna Caplow Lindner and Leah Harpaz -- Jamaica dance forms / Sheila Barnett -- III. Research. The aging process : benefits of physical activity / Everett Smith and Sally K. Zook -- A dance activity program for the older adult / Rayma K. Beal -- Folk dance and the older adult / Graham Hempel -- Dance/movement : effects on elderly self-concept / Sherrill Berryman-Miller -- IV. Curricular Program Models. Age doesn't matter : weaving dance and aging into the fifth grade curriculum / Josie Metal-Corbin, David Corbin, and Gwyn Barker -- Shared movement programs : children and older adults / Erna Caplow Lindner and Leah Harpaz -- Dance programs in southeastern Connecticut / Linda Deutch and Pamela J. Lewis -- Shared movement programs : college student and older adults / Josie Metal-Corbin -- V. Intergenerational dance. Dance belongs to everyone / Jeff Bliss -- An interview with Liz Lerman / Cynthia P. Ensign -- Teaching dance to senior adults / Liz Lerman -- All my grandmothers could sing / Josie Metal-Corbin and Roger E. Foltz -- Dance for older adults in a worship setting / Doug Adams -- A moving experience : young children and older adults / Erna Caplow Lindner and Leah Harpaz -- VI. Resources. Selected resources for dance and the older adult / Josie Metal-Corbin -- 1984 and 1986 dance conferences / Sherrill Berryman-Miller |
| Notes |
"A project of the National Dance Association." |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 136-146 |
| Subject |
Dance for older people -- Study and teaching.
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Dance for older people.
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Dance therapy.
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| Author |
Beal, Rayma K.
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Berryman-Miller, Sherrill.
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National Dance Association.
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| LC no. |
88190409 |
| ISBN |
0883143852 (paperback) |
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