Resources available in the Music and Dance Library (HBLL 4th floor).
Dance Injuries by
The first comprehensive guide to the care and prevention of dance injuries.
Dance Kinesiology by
Dance Kinesiology reflects modern techniques and includes articles addressing eight important systems of body work: the Pilates Method, Rolfing, the Feldenkrais Method, the Alexander Technique, Ideokinesis, Body-Mind Centering, the Bartenieff Fundamentals, and Laban Movement Analysis.
More current edition available in Science at :
QP 310.D35 F58 1996 or
Raoul Gelabert's anatomy for the dancer : with exercises to improve technique and prevent injuries by
Contains material that appeared in Dance magazine as monthly installment: v. 1, Jan. 1963 through Aug. 1964; v. 2, Sept. 1964 through July 1966.
Dance Pathologies by
Exploring dance’s historical links to the medical and scientific connotations of a “pathology,” this book asks what has subtended the idealization of dance in the West. It investigates the nineteenth-century response, in the intersections of dance, literature, and medicine, to the complex and long-standing connections between illness, madness, poetry, and performance.
Human Movement Potential : its ideokinetic facilitation by
In Human Movement Potential: Its Ideokinetic Facilitation, Dr. Lulu Sweigard explores the capacity of our nervous system to uncover the most efficient and healthy neuromuscular interactions for movement. Based on her research and insight, we can improve the relationship between our skeletal, muscular, and neural function, achieving our optimal movement potential.
Also in Science at: OP 303.S9
Lower Extremity Dance Medicine (video) by
Dr. William Hamilton, orthopedic surgeon to the New York City Ballet, the American Ballet Theatre and the School of American Ballet, discusses the evaluation of the dancer's alignment and technique with special emphasis on the physical exam of the foot, the ankle and the lower leg.
Introduction to Dance Medicine (Video) by
Interviews orthopedist Dr. William Hamilton, physical therapists Marika Molner and Katy Keller, and dancers who have suffered injuries, and shows their progress in physical therapy.
The Healthy Dancer: ABT Guidelines for Dancer Health
This comprehensive, easy-to-follow manual provides sound advice for dance teachers, parents and students, addressing the needs of young dancers and athletes, both pre-professional and recreational. Compiled by medical professionals from the fields of sports medicine, nutrition, physical therapy and orthopedics, the focus is on ballet training.
Ballet Physique : With Notes on Stresses and Injuries by
The purpose of this book is to direct the observer’s eye to those points, good and bad, which may be seen amongst any group of children attending auditions. The author is taking it for granted that the reader already possesses the rudiments of anatomy as set forth in her previous book, Anatomy and Ballet, and on the whole the dancer’s language is used rather than the anatomist’s in describing the different parts of the body and such deviations from the perfect as may affect the student in the course of training
These books are in Science and Maps on Level 2.
Science of Dance Training by
This text thoroughly reviews and integrates the published research on dance training into practical guidelines for dancers and their teachers. Based on the latest findings and current theories, the text will help teachers provide safer, more efficient, and more effective training for dancers. With contributions from dancers, sports medicine professionals, and exercise scientists, the text pulls together a wealth of information on the scientific, medical, behavioural, and pedagogical aspects of dance training into cohesive and highly readable text.
Soviet-American Dance Medicine by
Proceedings of the 1990 Glasnost Dance Medicine Conference and Workshops, Boston, Massachusetts, May 18, 19, 1990.
Dance Technique and Injury Prevention by
Dance Technique and Injury Prevention has established itself as the key reference for everyone involved in dance injury and treatment, physical therapy, and dance instruction.
Anatomy and Ballet by
A highly illuminating study of the mechanisms of the dance. From an engineering point of view one can only marvel at the capacity of the human form to take on strange and certainly occasionally painful positions.