The Dance Experience: Insights into History, Culture and Creativity

Providing an understanding of the history, evolution, and universality of dance as an art form, this guidebook 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. Highlighting an extensive range of types of dance—including ballet, modern, jazz, tap, folk, ethnic, and social—this comprehensive collection features a variety of engaging essays written by experts in their respective fields. Students of dance, professionals, instructors, and enthusiasts will learn what to look for during a performance, and how to appreciate dance styles from around the world. This newly revised edition includes five new chapters and an extensive, annotated appendix of film resources giving helpful suggestions for viewing that will enhance the dance experience.

• Moving History/Dancing Cultures: A Dance History Reader
• Looking at Contemporary Dance: A Guide for the Internet Age
• World Dance Cultures: From Ritual to Spectacle
• Appreciating Dance: A Guide to the World's Liveliest Art
• Ballet & Modern Dance: A Concise History
• Ballet and Modern Dance (Third Edition) (World of Art)
• Literature to Go
• Everyone's an Author with 2016 MLA Update: with Readings (Second Edition)
• Dancing: The Pleasure, Power, and Art of Movement
• History of Dance: An Interactive Arts Approach