Contrast and Continuum: Music for Creative Dance, Volume I Contrast and Continuum: Music for Creative Dance, Volume I
General Description: CD contains 16 melodies for creative movement. Accompanying support print material describes each track by tempo, time, and theme. It includes suggested activities and concepts for each track.
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizers: Creation and Composition, Dance and Society,
Elements of Movement, Presentation and Performance
Grade Level: K-10
Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:
American Alliance for Health
RVCD9301NDA
1900 Association Drive
Reston, Virginia
22091
Tel: (703) 476-3400
Price:
$18.00 (U.S. Funds) Contrast and Continuum: Music for Creative Dance, Volume II
General Description: CD contains 21 melodies for creative movement. Accompanying support print material describes each track by tempo, time, and theme. It includes suggested activities and concepts for each track.
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizers: Creation and Composition, Dance and Society,
Elements of Movement, Presentation and Performance
Grade Level: K-10
Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:
American Alliance for Health
1900 Association Drive
Reston, Virginia
22091
Tel: (703) 476-3400
Price:
$18.00 (U.S. Funds)General Description: Book explains the theory of movement elements and provides a method of teaching movement with sample lesson plans. It incorporates a practical approach to classroom management, use of facilities, and grouping according to physical development.
Audience: General Gifted - provides suggestions to include those
children who already dance LD - example lesson plans use plain, simple language of
instruction Physical Disabilities - provides suggestions for inclusion Deaf or Hard of
Hearing - provides suggestions for inclusion Blind/Visual Impairments - provides
suggestions for inclusion
Category: Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizers: Creation and Composition, Elements of
Movement, Presentation and Performance
Grade Level: K-10
Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:
American Alliance for Health
0-88314-532-4/A532-4
1900 Association Drive
Reston, Virginia
22091
Tel: (703) 476-3400
Price:
$17.50 (U.S. Funds)General Description: Teacher's guide, video, and audio cassette with music encourage exploration of elements of creative dance. The teacher's guide is organized into laminated key shapes which describe dance movements, exercises, and evaluation. Vocabulary cards provide ideas for dance composition. Video demonstrates ideas presented on cards.
Caution: There are exercises in which teachers may need to address safety risks (e.g., lifting, balancing on other students' bodies).
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizers: Creation and Composition, Elements of
Movement, Presentation and Performance
Grade Level: K-8
Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:
Synergy Movement Workshops
9696137-0-9/0001
13903 48th Avenue
Edmonton, AB
T6H 0G1
Tel: (403) 437-1156
Fax: (403) 430-8993
Price:
$300.00General Description: Fifty-eight-minute documentary video explores culture through dance in the context of royal courts: Louis XIV, Japan, Indonesia, Ghana, Asante Court, Bugaku, Kumase, Java, Jogiakarta. The video also addresses dance history and the cultural origins of dance.
Audience: General Gifted - highly academic approach to dance
history
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizers: Creation and Composition, Dance and Society,
Elements of Movement, Presentation and Performance
Grade Level: 6-12
Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:
B. C. Learning Connection Inc.
#4 - 8755 Ash Street
Vancouver, BC
V6P 6T3
Tel: (604) 324-7752
Toll-free: 1-800-884-2366
Fax: (604) 324-1844
Price:
$22.00General Description: Professional resource package comprises a binder, three booklets, and two summaries, one of which is on a Macintosh computer disk. The components comprehensively relate dance to child and adolescent development. Topics of dance making, dance sharing, dance inquiry, and dance movement vocabulary are central.
Audience: General
Category: Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizers: Creation and Composition, Dance and Society,
Elements of Movement, Presentation and Performance
Grade Level: K-12
Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:
Minnesota Center for Arts Education
6125 Olson Memorial Highway
Golden Valley, Minnesota
55422
Tel: (612) 591-4709
Fax: (612) 591-4747
Price:
$5.00 - $15.00
Form Without Formula: A Concise Guide to the
Choreographic Process
General Description: Book describes the choreographic process in sections on movement, building skills, narrative, abstraction, music, sets, props, titles, performing space, lighting, costuming, and concepts. Ideas and activities to implement the main topics are organized sequentially.
Audience: General Gifted - opportunities for in-depth analysis,
extension and lateral thinking
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizers: Creation and Composition, Presentation and
Performance, Print Materials
Grade Level: 7-12
Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:
Dance Collection Danse
929003-17-9
145 George Street
Toronto, ON
M5A 2M6
Tel: (416) 365-3233
Fax: (416) 365-3169
Price:
$8.50General Description: Forty-nine-minute video documents the story of a 20-year-old male Canadian factory worker who, through inspiration and determination, becomes a gifted ballet performer. Stephan Leonard is followed to Russia where he trains and then performs.
Audience: General Gifted - can be used for independent study
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizers: Creation and Composition, Dance and Society,
Elements of Movement, Presentation and Performance
Grade Level: 7-12
Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:
B. C. Learning Connection Inc.
#4 - 8755 Ash Street
Vancouver, BC
V6P 6T3
Tel: (604) 324-7752
Toll-free: 1-800-884-2366
Fax: (604) 324-1844
Price:
$22.00 Moon Magic: Gail Grant and the 1920's Dance in Regina
General Description: Booklet is a biography of Regina-born performer (Edith) Gail Grant, a pioneer in early Canadian dance. The biography is integrated with the realities of the state of dance in Canada from the 1920s to the 1950s. Original black and white photographs enhance the text.
Audience: General Gifted - can be used for independent study
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizers: Dance and Society, Presentation and
Performance, Print Materials
Grade Level: 8-12
Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:
Dance Collection Danse
145 George Street
Toronto, ON
M5A 2M6
Tel: (416) 365-3233
Fax: (416) 365-3169
Price:
$9.95 Movement Improvisation: In the Words of a Teacher and
Her Students
General Description: Book describes how to teach expressive movement. It offers principles and techniques to conduct a creative movement class and features an easy-to-use table with 163 themes for eliciting genuine impromptu responses. The themes are categorized by experience level, number of participants, and purpose.
Audience: General
Category: Professional Reference
Curriculum Organizers: Creation and Composition, Elements of Movement
Grade Level: K-10
Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:
Human Kinetics-Canada
Box 24040
1275 Walker Road
Windsor, ON
N8Y 4Y9
Tel: (519) 944-7774
Fax: (519) 944-7614
Price:
$29.50General Description: Fifty-eight-minute documentary video explores global cultural exchange through dance. Video provides an in-depth examination of the influences on North American dance from other cultures: First Nations, Cajun, Indian. Narration discusses how cultures influence styles of dance and how technology affects dance.
Audience: General ESL - authentic representation of various
cultural influences in dance
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizers: Creation and Composition, Dance and Society,
Elements of Movement, Presentation and Performance
Grade Level: 2-12
Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:
International Tele-Film Enterprises Ltd.
Suite #301, 5090 Explorer Drive
Mississauga, ON
L4W 4T9
Tel: (905) 629-3133
Fax: (905) 629-1211
Price:
$22.00 
Teaching Beginning Dance Improvisation
General Description: Two 60-minute video tapes present a series of activities for teaching improvisation from various aspects. The accompanying teacher's manual provides clearly stated objectives, lesson goals, activities, teaching hints, and coaching phrases.
Audience: General
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizers: Creation and Composition, Dance and Society,
Elements of Movement, Presentation and Performance
Grade Level: K-12
Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:
American Alliance for Health
1900 Association Drive
Reston, Virginia
22091
Tel: (703) 476-3400
Price:
$205.00 (U.S. Funds) 
Upper Elementary Children: Moving and Learning
General Description: Resource binder and two audio cassettes with music provide students with opportunities to explore movement and self-expression through solving movement problems. The binder contains 120 movement activities in 40 well-organized lesson plans.
Caution: Teachers need to be aware of comfort levels of students for sections "On Balance" and "Close Relations."
Audience: General
Category: Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizers: Elements of Movement, Presentation and
Performance
Grade Level: 2-10
Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:
Human Kinetics-Canada
Box 24040
1275 Walker Road
Windsor, ON
N8Y 4Y9
Tel: (519) 944-7774
Fax: (519) 944-7614
Price:
$65.95General Description: Book describes and illustrates the world of ballet. It includes sections on the classical ballet steps, mime, make-up, costumes, character dancing performance, other dance forms, and choreography. A detailed glossary and useful addresses are provided.
Audience: General ESL - high interest, good key visuals are used,
with a predictable pattern and pictoral support
Category: Student, Teacher Resource
Curriculum Organizers: Creation and Composition, Dance and Society,
Elements of Movement, Presentation and Performance
Grade Level: 2-12
Year Recommended: 1995
Supplier:
Irwin Publishing
1800 Steeles Avenue West
Concord, ON
L4K 2P3
Tel: (905) 660-0611
Fax: (905) 660-0676
Price:
$13.56
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