Pt.1. THE POWER TO CREATE. Understanding, meaning, purpose: What is dance? Why do we dance? Studying dance cultures around the world / Pegge Vissicaro -- Creating understanding. Dancing: the pleasure, power, and art of movement / Gerald Jonas -- Dance: a creative art experience / Margaret N. H'Doubler -- Dancing and its relations to education and social life / Allen Dodworth. -- Creating meaning and purpose. Religious symbolism and iconography / from the Encyclopedia Britanica -- Dancing: the pleasure, power, and art of movement / Gerald Jonas -- Societies of the Plains Indians / Clark Wissler. -- Pt. 2. THE POWER TO CONNECT. Communicate, bond, heal: Dance as a communication tool. Sex and symbol in the treatment of women: the wedding rite in a lybian oasis / John P. Mason -- Headspin: capoeira's ironic inversions / Barbara Browning -- Dancing at the crossroads: memory and nobility in Ireland / Helena Wuff -- African dance: bridges to humanity / Julie A. Sellers -- Fusion: bonding across dance culture. Vibrant Andalusia: the spice of life in Southern Spain / Ana Ruiz -- Bhangra: from farming to pop culture / Dr. Wendy Guess -- National rhythms, african roots / John Charles Chasteen -- The history of breakdancing / Mr. Fresh, the Supreme Rockers -- Southern Texas: a hot house of Zudeco / Roger Wood -- Forró: identity through dance / Dr. Wendy Guess -- Healing and fitness tools. Harnessing the healing power of movement / Carol Krucoff, Mitchell Krucoff -- A therapeutic dance program for parkinson's patients / Jennifer Valdes -- The basic fundamentals of a natural physical education / Joseph H. Pilates, William J. Miller -- Yoga as medicine: the yogic prescription for health and healing / Timothy McCall -- Does partnered dance promote health? The case of tango argentino / Gunter Kreutz -- Somatics: Reawakening the mind's control of movement, flexibility, and health / Thomas Hanna. -- Pt. 3. THE POWER TO MASTER. Excel, perform, compete: Dance as a performance art (fine art). Principles of dance and movement notation / Rudolph Laban -- Interesting moments in the history of ballet / Anneliese Burns Wilson -- Dancing: the pleasure, power, and art movement / Gerald Jonas -- The mothers of invention: founding females of modern dance / Anneliese Burns Wilson -- American ballroom theater / Pierre Dulaine -- Dancing: the pleasure, power, and art movement / Gerald Jonas -- Dance as a creative art (competitive and recreational). Dancing till dawn / Julie Malnig -- Discovering jazz dance: America's energy and soul / Janice LaPoint-Crump & Kimberly Staley --Tap dance fundamentals / Colleen N. West. -- Education: passing on the legacies. Education through dance / Margaret N. H'Doubler -- A teacher's resourse guide: addressing health and dance issues / Dr. Wendy Guess.
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