Dancing for Health: Conquering and Preventing Stress - Softcover

Hanna, Judith Lynne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0759108595 ISBN 13: 9780759108592

Publisher: AltaMira Press, 2006

Synopsis

Throughout history and in contemporary times, people worldwide have danced to cope with the stresses of life. But how has dance helped people resist, reduce, and escape stress? What is it about dance that makes it a healing art? What insights can we gain from learning about others' use of dance across cultures and eras? Dancing for Health addresses these questions and explains the cognitive, emotional and physical dimensions of dance in a spectrum of stress management approaches.

Designed for anyone interested in health and healing, Dancing for Health offers lessons learned from the experiences of people of different cultures and historical periods, as well as current knowledge, on how to resist, reduce, and dance away stress in the disquieting times of the 21st century. Anthropologists and psychologists will benefit from the unique theoretical and ethnographic analysis of how dance affects communities and individuals, while dancers and therapists will take away practical lessons on improving their and their patients' quality of life.

About this title

About the Author

Judith Lynne Hanna (Ph.D., Columbia University) is a senior research scholar in the Department of Dance at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Edition details

• Publisher: AltaMira Press
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0759108595
• ISBN 13: 9780759108592
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264