The Dance Experience: Insights into History, Culture and Creativity - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0871272512 ISBN 13: 9780871272515

Publisher: Princeton Book Company, 2003

Synopsis

Highlighting ballet, modern dance, jazz, and tap, this comprehensive collection features a variety of engaging essays written by experts in their respective fields of dance. Students of dance, professionals, instructors, and enthusiasts will learn how to look at dance, what to look for during a performance, and how to appreciate dance styles from around the world. Providing an understanding of the history, evolution, and universality of dance as an art form, this explores the significance of dance in culture, the relationship of dance to other art forms, the contributions of great pioneering choreographers, dancers, and teachers, and the creative process.

About this title

About the Author:

Myron Nadel is an associate dean of fine and performing arts at the University of Texas at El Paso and the vice president of the Texas Council of the Arts in Education. He lives in El Paso, Texas. Marc Strauss is the associate dean of the college of liberal arts at Southeast Missouri State University. He lives in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.

Review:

"This concise, accessible, and lively volume provides an animated view of dance in the 21st century. Summing Up: Essential." -- Choice

About this edition

• Publisher: Princeton Book Company
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0871272512
• ISBN 13: 9780871272515
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 388
• Editor: Nadel Myron Howard, Strauss Marc Raymond