Dance Therapy Books

New and Published Books

1. Understanding Disability Studies and Performance Studies

   Edited by Bruce Henderson, Noam Ostrander

   This collection brings together scholarship and creative writing that brings together two of the most innovative fields to emerge from critical and cultural studies in the past few decades: Disability studies and performance studies. It draws on writings about such media as live performance...

   Published July 25th 2012 by Routledge
2. The Art and Science of Dance/Movement Therapy

   Life Is Dance

   Edited by Sharon Chaiklin, Hilda Wengrower

   The Art and Science of Dance/Movement Therapy offers both a broad understanding and an in-depth view of how and where dance therapy can be used to produce change. The chapters go beyond the basics that characterize much of the literature on dance/movement therapy, and each of the topics...

   Published July 27th 2009 by Routledge
3. Anna Halprin

   By Libby Worth, Helen Poynor

   Series: Routledge Performance Practitioners

   This guidebook traces the life's work of radical dance-maker Anna Halprin, documenting her early career as a modern dancer in the 1940s through to the development of her groundbreaking approach to dance as an accessible and life-enhancing art form. Tracing the evolution of the San Francisco Dancers...

   Published September 30th 2004 by Routledge
4. Making Connections

   Total Body Integration Through Bartenieff Fundamentals

   By Peggy Hackney

   Human movement influences an individual's perceptions and ability to interact with the world. Through exercises, illustrations, and detailed anatomical drawings, this remarkable book guides the reader toward total body integration. An experimental approach to movement fundamentals involving the...

   Published January 17th 1999 by Routledge
5. Inner Rhythm

   Dance Training for the Deaf

   By Naomi Benari

   First published in 1997...

   Published September 1st 1997 by Routledge