Exploring Dance Forms and Styles: A Guide to Concert, World, Social, and Historical Dance introduces students to 60 dance forms across the four categories. It features worksheets and teacher information sheets in the book and as printable PDFs on the bound-in DVD, and it includes 39 dance performances and resources for 21 more dance forms.
Part I: Building Critical Thinking Skills in Dance
Chapter 1. Viewing: What Did You See?
Chapter 2. Connecting: What Do You Know?
Chapter 3. Responding: What Do You Think? What Do You Wonder?
Chapter 4. Performing: What Can You Do?
Part II: Sorting Dances Into Categories and Subcategories
Chapter 5. Concert or Theatrical Dance
Chapter 6. World Dance
Chapter 7. Social Dance
Chapter 8. Historical Dance
Part III: Using Dance Forms: Looking at Dance Through Different Lenses
Chapter 9. Helping Students Develop Aesthetic Values
Chapter 10. Comparing Dance Forms and Dances
Chapter 11. Focusing on Universal Themes and Sociopolitical Issues
Chapter 12. Reflecting on Diversity and Blending of Cultural Aspects
Helene Scheff, RDE, is a conference planner for the National Dance Education Organization. She has taught all forms and styles of dance for about 50 years in all sectors and venues, including K-12, higher education, and the private sector. She has coauthored several other dance books and conducted presentations at local, regional, national, and international conferences and seminars.
Susan McGreevy-Nichols, BS, is a national consultant in arts education programming and curriculum. She was the founder and director of a nationally known middle school dance program in Providence, Rhode Island, and taught in public schools for 28 years before moving on to higher education. She is also a guest teaching artist at the elementary level in the Los AngelesUnifiedSchool District.
Marty Sprague, MA, teaches at the Providence Academy of International Studies in Providence, Rhode Island. She has taught and performed dance (concert, world, social, and historical) for more than 50 years, including various dance forms and styles at the elementary, middle, secondary, and university levels. A coauthor of several dance books, she has presented and consulted at the local, regional, national, and international levels.