Physics and the art of dance: understanding movement

Abstract

"In this second edition, author Kenneth Laws - a physicist with years of professional dance training - teams up with veteran dance instructor Arleen Sugano to provide new step-by-step experiments for dancers. "What You See" sections describe the way physical principles form the framework within which some movements exist. The complementary "What you Do" sections allow dancers to experience how those physical analyses can offer them a more efficient means of learning how to carry out those movements. Within the framework of easy-to-understand physical principles, the book shows how movements are, first, artistic expressions, and, second, movements of the body.". "Dancers and dance instructors will find in this book an efficient means of improving technical proficiency and growing professional and aesthetic development. For physics and science teachers, the book provides a new and compelling way to draw people into the world of science And observers and fans of dance will marvel over the beautiful time-stop photography by renowned dance photographers Martha Swope and Gene Schiavone."--BOOK JACKET.