Discovering Dance - Hardcover

Discovering Dance opens up a world of opportunities for secondary school students who possess little or no dance experience. It will help students understand the fundamentals of creating, performing, analysing, understanding, responding to, connecting with and evaluating dance in its various genres. Discovering Dance has many distinctive features that help students connect with the material and help teachers facilitate the students' exploration and mastery of dance fundamentals.

Gayle Kassing, PhD, taught beginning ballet through advanced ballet for more than 25 years at four universities. Kassing earned a BFA in ballet and theater, an MS in modern dance, a PhD in dance and related arts, and an MAT in K-12 curriculum integrated with technology. She was the 2010 National Dance Association (NDA) Artist Scholar. She is a member of the National Dance Education Organization (NDEO). She is the author of History of Dance and coauthor of Teaching Beginning Ballet Technique. Kassing is an acquisitions editor at Human Kinetics.