On The Floor: If You Don't Love This, You Just Plain Don't Love Dancing!

"On The Floor" is an inspirational, provocative, amusing read, with autobiographical aspects thrown in for good measure. At its core, the book is about process, hence the sub-title, "If You Don’t Love This, You Just Plain Don’t Love Dancing". Seeing that an ever-increasing number of students each year simply do not know how to take charge of their own learning, the Rawles’ felt “compelled” to lay out in detail their ideas, philosophies, and strategies. These principles, acquired over a collective 80 years of experience in the professional world of the arts (film, T.V., concert, stage production), as well as the educational field, have proven themselves time and again effective learning/life tools for students of all ages, backgrounds, and interests. The book’s title can be taken literally, for those who dance, or metaphorically for everyone else. One thing for sure, it can be applied to anyone who wishes to better themselves in any circumstance, whether it’s in the arts, academia, business, or life. It’s very simple: before you can learn or accomplish anything, you have to get on the floor, and that, as Rawles writes, means “getting up off your ever-expanding derriere and getting to work”.