How They Became Famous Dancers (Color Version)
The feel-good place to buy books
How They Became Famous Dancers (Color Version) by Anne Dunkin
How They Became Famous Dancers: A Dancing History for young readers tells the story of twelve famous dancers - six women and six men - from different parts of the world. Spanning the seventeenth into the twenty-first centuries, each biographical sketch is placed within the subject's historical and cultural context. Dancers include: Louis XIV, John Durang, Marie Taglioni, William Henry 'Juba' Lane, Anna Pavlova, Rudolf Laban, Doris Humphrey, Michio Ito, Mrinalini Sarabhai, Pearl Primus, Amalia Hern ndez, and Arthur Mitchell. Each chapter includes Create a Dance giving readers the opportunity to dance themselves based on each dancer's style.
Anne Dunkin is the project coordinator for the Research in Dance Education Database at the National Dance Educational Organization and a cofounder of Qwindo's Window, a professional dance company that presents dance education programs to children and their teachers. She is a former lecturer on teaching dance to preservice elementary educators at California State University-Fullerton and a former dance teacher at Kalorama Day School in Washington DC, Gill St. Bernard's School in Bernardsville, New Jersey, and Landmark West School in Encino, California. She has written for Arts Education Policy Review and Dance Teacher Now. She lives in Annapolis, Maryland.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781508859024 |
| ISBN 10 | 1508859027 |
| Title | How They Became Famous Dancers (Color Version) |
| Author | Anne Dunkin |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
| Year published | 2015-03-30 |
| Number of pages | 136 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |