So you want to start a dance class or develop your existing class? This book has tips from 7 years experience as a teacher of salsa and swing dance. It describes how to set up successful classes and what some of the common pitfalls are. This practical guide could save you years of heartache and help you maximise not only your earing potential but aslso your fun in teaching dance.

Dance Teaching Methods and Curriculum Design, Second Edition, presents a comprehensive model that prepares students to teach dance in school and community settings. It offers 14 dance units and many tools to help students learn to design lesson plans and units and create their own dance portfolio

Dance Class offers an extraordinary collection of student essays about Anthony Powells great comic novel A Dance to the Music of Time. The young authors not only discuss issues of character, plot, and theme, but they also investigate historical background, chart personal relevance, parody characters and situations, even in one students case write a treatment for a drama. In examining Mrs. Erdleighs fortune-telling mumbo-jumbo, Cassidy Carpenter presents compelling and original evidence that the narrators birthday is the same as Powells. Will Story provides an invaluable guide to all the military acronyms that percolate through the war novels. Alex Svec creates a brilliant parody of writings by Julian Maclaren-Ross, the real-life model for X. Trapnel. For those who love A Dance to the Music of Time, this book will reveal fresh new ways of looking at the series. And for those who are just discovering it, Dance Class will prove a useful and highly entertaining guide.

This look at Progressive-era women and innovative cultural practices “blazes a new trail in dance scholarship” (Choice, Outstanding Academic Book of the Year). From salons to dance halls to settlement houses, new dance practices at the turn of the twentieth century became a vehicle for expressing cultural issues and negotiating matters of gender. By examining master narratives of modern dance history, this provocative and insightful book demonstrates the cultural agency of Progressive-era dance practices. “Tomko blazes a new trail in dance scholarship by interconnecting U.S. History and dance studies . . . the first to argue successfully that middle-class U.S. women promoted a new dance practice to manage industrial changes, crowded urban living, massive immigration, and interchange and repositioning among different classes.” —Choice

Julie, Lucy and Alia are BFF's who share one passion: dance! Between programs in ballet and modern dance, they also slip in classes on many other styles including hip-hop, a class run by the hunk KT, who's got all three competing for his attention. As they prepare for the ballet "Sleeping Beauty," they'd love to see him play Prince Charming. Any girl with a love for dance and taking classes will find this gag-filled series irresistible!

Experiencing Dance: From Student to Dance Artist, Third Edition, is geared toward students in dance II, III, and IV classes. It places teachers in the role of facilitator and opens up a world of creativity and analytical thinking as students explore dance as an art form.

A resource for teachers focusing on the skills students need when working towards assessment of dance in performance. Describes the dance experience mainly from the dancer's perspective and in a way teachers can use in their daily teaching schedules.