Dance Partnering Basics: Practical Skills and Inclusive Pedagogy

Dance Partnering Basics: Practical Skills and Inclusive Pedagogy With HKPropel Access provides easy-to-implement, technique-based partnering instruction for dancers of all ages, with 18 illustrated exercises, tips for developing a partnering component, and related online materials. It uses an inclusive, nongendered approach to dance partnering, organized around the foundational elements of dance.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 160 pages
Publication date: 05 February 2024
Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers

Dance Partnering Basics: Practical Skills and Inclusive Pedagogy With HKPropel Access
Dance Partnering Basics: Practical Skills and Inclusive Pedagogy With HKPropel Access presents easy-to-implement, technique-based partnering instruction for dancers of all ages. The exercises and techniques, which are broken down into parts and presented in a skill progression, from beginner to advanced, can be applied to a variety of dance forms. The book offers a plethora of tools to help dance educators in providing expert partnering instruction:
18 illustrated exercises that teach techniques, mechanics, and individual partnered skills; each exercise includes additional variations and explorations.
2. Tips for developing a partnering component and integrating it into an existing dance program or curriculum.
3. Related online materials delivered via HK Propel, including over 40 video clips demonstrating partnering exercises, vocabulary, questions for discussion and reflection, and assessments and rubrics to help assess student progress.
4. Inclusive, Nongendered Approach. The text uses an inclusive, nongendered approach to dance partnering, as opposed to the traditional male and female roles. Instead of using man/woman labels in the instructions, author Brandon Whited uses terminology such as partner A/partner B, leader/follower, and supported partner/supportive partner. This approach gives a broad appeal to dance partnering.
5. Book Contents. Dance Partnering Basics is organized around the foundational elements of dance—time, weight, energy, and flow, and space. Chapter 1 provides a concise history and explanation of dance partnering forms and considers the broad implications for the practice as a vital component of dance education and training. Chapter 2 focuses on class planning, course development, foundational concepts, and teaching techniques. It also offers.

Weight: 460g
Dimension: 216 x 283 x 17 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781492598060