Discovering Dance-2nd Edition
Author: Gayle Kassing
$170.95 CAD
Specifically designed to meet national and state dance education standards, Discovering Dance offers a ready-to-implement dance curriculum that is foundational and flexible. It fosters students’ discovery of dance through creating, performing, analyzing, understanding, responding to, connecting to, and evaluating dance and dance forms.
The book is divided into four parts and 17 chapters. Part I focuses on the foundational concepts of dance and art processes, wellness, safety, dance elements, and composition. Part II delves into dance in society, including historical, social, traditional, and cultural dances. In part III, students explore dance on stage—including ballet, modern dance, jazz dance, tap, and hip-hop—and examine aspects of performance and production. Part IV rounds out the content by preparing students for dance in college or as a career and throughout life.
The chapter content helps students
- discover dance genres;
- explore each genre through its history, artists, vocabulary, and significant works;
- apply dance concepts through movement and through written, oral, visual, technology, and multimedia assignments, thus deepening their knowledge and abilities;
- enhance learning by completing a portfolio assignment and review quiz for each chapter; and
- gain insight into dance artists, companies, and events through the Did You Know? and Spotlight elements.
The personal discovery process is greatly aided by technology—including video clips that demonstrate dance genres, forms, styles, and techniques as well as learning experiences that require taking photos and creating time lines, graphs, drawings, diagrams, or soundscapes.
Audience
Textbook for high school Dance I courses.Chapter 1. Dance for All
Chapter 2. Safety, Health, and Wellness
Chapter 3. Elements of Dance
Chapter 4. Basics of Dance Composition
Part II. Dance in Society
Chapter 5. History of Dance
Chapter 6. Social Dance
Chapter 7. Traditional American Community Dance
Chapter 8. Cultural Dance
Part III. Dance on Stage
Chapter 9. Ballet
Chapter 10. Modern Dance
Chapter 11. Jazz Dance
Chapter 12. Tap Dance
Chapter 13. Hip-Hop Dance
Chapter 14. Dance as Entertainment
Chapter 15. Dance Performance and Production
Part IV. Dance for Life
Chapter 16. College and Career Preparation
Chapter 17. Dance in Your Life
Exploring Dance Composition
Exploring Modern Dance
Dance and the athleteDance vocabularyExploring the elements of danceYour personal space
All ancillaries are free to adopting instructors through HKPropel.
Teacher guide. Includes planner charts that link to all supplemental resources associated with each chapter, learning objectives, extended learning activities, assessment rubrics, printable posters, and additional teacher resources to enhance the learning process.
Test package. Contains questions in true-false, fill-in-the-blank, essay and short-answer, and multiple-choice formats. The files may be downloaded for integration with a learning management system or printed for use as paper-based tests. Instructors may also create their own customized quizzes or tests from the test bank questions.
Chapter quizzes. Contains ready-made quizzes (9-10 questions each) to assess student comprehension of the most important concepts in each chapter.
Presentation package. Features PowerPoint slides of text, artwork, and tables from the book that can be used for class presentation or printed as handouts for students.
Instructors also receive access to the student web resource. For Discovering Dance, Second Edition, this includes handouts and assignments that students can complete and turn in, Explore More sections to introduce students to additional dance styles, chapter glossaries, video and audio clips for selected dance genres, and web links and search terms to enhance learning with additional resources.