Finding Balance: Fitness, Health, and Training for a Lifetime in Dance gives an overview of issues faced by all performing dancers: injury and treatment; technique and training; fitness; nutrition and diet; and career management. The text includes both easy-to-read overviews of each topic and profiles of well known dancers and how they have coped with these issues. The new edition includes: * updated and new profiles * expanded injury and injury treatment information * updated dance science and physiology findings, and new references * updated diet guidelines * expanded and updated Taking Control section It concludes with a list of selected dance/arts medicine clinics, a bibliography, glossary, and text notes.
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Berardi's invaluable work will enable dancers to make wise decisions about caring for themselves.
–Francia Russell, Artistic Director, Pacific/Northwest Ballet
Finding Balance is a book that can be read by all from the novice to advanced dancer, the administrator, choreographer, and the teacher. The information is valuable and essential and written in a style that is interesting and informative.
–Journal of Dance Medicine and Science, 2004
Gigi Berardi shares her passion for the arts and what it takes to follow a dream.
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–Yearbook of Experts (R) News Release Wire, 03/04/2005
–Francia Russell, Artistic Director, Pacific/Northwest Ballet
Finding Balance is a book that can be read by all from the novice to advanced dancer, the administrator, choreographer, and the teacher. The information is valuable and essential and written in a style that is interesting and informative.
–Journal of Dance Medicine and Science, 2004
Gigi Berardi shares her passion for the arts and what it takes to follow a dream.
Need Experts? Check Out American Society of Journalists and Authors March Tip Sheet
–Yearbook of Experts (R) News Release Wire, 03/04/2005
About the Author
Gigi Berardi is book review editor for the Journal of Dance Medicine and Science, a regular columnist for Dance International and a correspondent for Dance Magazine; her articles have appeared both in daily newspapers and specialized dance research journals. A Fulbright scholar with a masters in dance from the University of California, Los Angeles, Berardi currently teaches at Western Washington University.
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This book is great. There are chapters on dance fitness that I haven't seen anywhere else. And it's easy to read, for a technical manual. A wonderful source of facts for the dancer who wants to stay healthy.
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Dancers try to achieve the near-impossible. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
healthy dancer, hip turnout, somatic disciplines, dance medicine, dance injuries, conditioning for dance, dance kinesiology, somatic training, adolescent dancer, core stabilization, effective strength training, external hip rotation, point shoes, dance science, dancers need, female ballet dancers, rehabilitative work, dynamic alignment, grand battement, dancers tend, younger dancers, many dancers, biomechanical basis, ballet students, dance training Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Angela Sterling, New York, Pacific Northwest Ballet, United States, Martha Graham, Bill Evans, Journal of Dance Medicine, Bartenieff Fundamentals, Dance Magazine, Gus Solomons, Karen Clippinger, Cirque du Soleil, Donald Byrd, Erick Hawkins, Kent Stowell, School of American Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Elizabeth Streb, Eric Franklin, Kenneth Laws, Louise Nadeau, Murray Louis, National Ballet School, Anatomy Basics, Boston Ballet New!
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Dancers try to achieve the near-impossible. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
healthy dancer, hip turnout, somatic disciplines, dance medicine, dance injuries, conditioning for dance, dance kinesiology, somatic training, adolescent dancer, core stabilization, effective strength training, external hip rotation, point shoes, dance science, dancers need, female ballet dancers, rehabilitative work, dynamic alignment, grand battement, dancers tend, younger dancers, many dancers, biomechanical basis, ballet students, dance training Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Angela Sterling, New York, Pacific Northwest Ballet, United States, Martha Graham, Bill Evans, Journal of Dance Medicine, Bartenieff Fundamentals, Dance Magazine, Gus Solomons, Karen Clippinger, Cirque du Soleil, Donald Byrd, Erick Hawkins, Kent Stowell, School of American Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Elizabeth Streb, Eric Franklin, Kenneth Laws, Louise Nadeau, Murray Louis, National Ballet School, Anatomy Basics, Boston Ballet New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Fit and Healthy Dancer by Yiannis Koutedakis on 13 pages
- Recommended Dietary Allowances: 10th Edition (Dietary Reference Intakes) by Subcommittee on the Tenth Edition of the Recommended Dietary Allowances on 5 pages
- Low Back Disorders: Evidence-Based Prevention and Rehabilitation by Stuart McGill on 5 pages
- Advice for Dancers: Emotional Counsel and Practical Strategies by Linda H. Hamilton Ph.D. on 5 pages
- Conditioning for Dance by Eric Franklin on 5 pages
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- Ballet Basics by Sandra Noll Hammond on page 25, and Back Matter
- Finding Balance: Fitness, Training, and Health for a Lifetime in Dance by Gigi Berardi in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Dance, Power, And Difference: Critical & Feminist Prspctvs Dan Ed by Sherry Shapiro on page 69
- Dancing Female (Choreography and Dance Studies Series) by Sharon E. Friedler on page 239
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