Books
All of the following titles are published by us and came about because they were deemed as essential texts for a healthy and professional dance industry.
Your Body Your Risk
Author: Edited by Scilla Dyke.
Summary:
Information and advice on healthy eating, body image, bone health,
avoiding eating disorders and legal rights relevant to students and
dancers. Particularly useful for young dancers, helping them to become
the best dancers they can be, and to keep dancing longer.
Resource Category: Book
Subject Matter: Older People, Health & Safety, Well-being, Health, Disability, Young People, Adults, Early-years
Author: Edited by Scilla Dyke
Date Published: 2001
Indepth:
Information and advice on healthy eating, body image,
bone health, avoiding eating disorders and legal rights relevant to
students and dancers. Particularly useful for young dancers, helping
them to become the best dancers they can be, and to keep dancing longer.
Review:
'Your Body Your Risk is serious, informative and easy to read with good practical advice not just identifying problems but what to do next.'
Sue Smith, while at Council for Dance Education and Training
Dance Teaching Essentials
Summary: Information for all those providing, teaching and leading dance with young people including sections on the role of the dance teacher, teaching and learning dance, the legal framework, and safe practice. It provides useful checklists and resources on the physical and psychological development of young people.
Subject Matter: Professional Development, Young People, Education, Lifelong Learning, Careers, Career Development
Date Published: 2002
Review:
"Dance Teaching Essentials is a major step forward in promoting high quality dance teaching. [it] brings together essential information that all dance teachers need whatever style of dance they teach."
Dance, magazine of the ISTD Dance Examination Board
Fit to Dance?
Author: Dr. Peter Brinson and Fiona Dick
Summary: The report of the first national inquiry into dancers' health and injury, carried out by Dance UK in 1993/4 and published by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Findings from fitness, nutritional and psychological research, and information from dance and sports medicine and science experts. Recommendations for dancers on physical fitness, working conditions, injury management, training and on dance related psychological and lifestyle issues, based on the outcome of the research.
Subject Matter: Health & Safety, Teaching, Facilitation, Adults, Older People, Professional Development, Well-being, Health, Disability, Young People
Author: Dr. Peter Brinson and Fiona Dick
Date Published: 1996
Indepth:
The report of the first national inquiry into dancers' health and injury, carried out by Dance UK in 1993/4 and published by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Findings from fitness, nutritional and psychological research, and information from dance and sports medicine and science experts. Recommendations for dancers on physical fitness, working conditions, injury management, training and on dance related psychological and lifestyle issues, based on the outcome of the research.
Fit to Dance 2
Author: Helen Laws
Summary: The report of the second national inquiry into UK dancers' health and injury, funded by the Jerwood Charity, presents and compares the health, lifestyle and injury status of dancers in 2003 with that 10 years previously. It includes an additional survey of dance teachers. The book provides a clear picture of provision for dancers' health and injury prevention in dance companies and vocational dance schools, and updated recommendations for the dance profession based on these findings.
Resource Category: Book
Subject Matter: Health & Safety, Teaching, Facilitation, Adults, Education, Lifelong Learning, Well-being, Health, Young People
Author: Helen Laws
Date Published: 2005
Indepth:
The book provides a clear picture of provision for dancers' health and injury prevention in dance companies and vocational dance schools, and updated recommendations for the dance profession based on these findings.
Choreography as Work
Summary: A report based on research commissioned by Dance UK from shinkansen looking into the working life and career development of choreographers.
Subject Matter: Professional Development, Fundraising, Marketing, Cross Arts, Multidisciplinary, Choreography, Performance, Careers, Career Development, Business, Management
Date Published: 2001
Review:
'This report manages to highlight the diversity of work undertaken by choreographers and the range of contexts in which they operate. One objective of this report is to prompt debate about the means by which choreographic careers can be supported, sustained and enhanced.'
Kate Flatt, Choreographer, former Chair of British Association of Choreographers
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Look Before You Leap: an advice and rights guide for choreographers.
Summary:
Comprehensive and practical information about negotiation, preparation,
creation, care and the continuing life of a choreographic work. It
includes examples and checklists for different working contexts (opera,
film, advertising, musical theatre, schools and community). A useful
source of reference for choreographers, managers, dance teachers,
movement specialists, composers, designers, technicians, and all those
who collaborate with choreographers.
Subject Matter: Professional Development, Cross Arts,
Multidisciplinary, International, Choreography, Performance, Education,
Lifelong Learning, Business, Management
Author: Ann Whitley
Date Published: 1995
A choreographer is naturally preoccupied with the creation of choreography and may neglect important administrative matters. Some choreographers tolerate inadequate conditions of engagement and tread unsurely among the complexities of copyright, insurance and the small print in some contracts.
Some continue to suffer in collaborative enterprises from lower status and fees than other participants. The services of a theatrical agent or manager may primarily concern contracts, fees and publicity matters, leaving many other issues for the choreographer to sort out. This publication addresses those issues and is applicable to all stages of the choreographic career, whether that of a young person starting out with a small group or that of an established choreographer moving away from the comparative shelter of a parent organisation into a different type of choreographic work without the facilities and support of expert management.
Review:
'My advice to choreographers is read this now! A clear and accessible guide full of very practical, good advice for the business side of the choreography.'
Lea Anderson, The Cholmondeleys and The Featherstonehaughs
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Dance Floors: A Handbook for the design of floors for dance.
Summary:
An essential resource for those planning dance facilities and events,
highlighting the significance of floors to dance performance, and
providing the information needed to get it right.
Subject Matter: Health & Safety, Choreography, Performance, Well-being, Health
Author: Mark Foley
Date Published: 1991
Review:
'This book is essential for any individual, company or architect planning to install a dance floor. It is vital reading for those needing practical advice for a budget floor to those attempting to assess the existing products on the market from the main manufacturers.
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