Overview
- The first volume devoted to dance and quality of life
- Offers comprehensive multi-generational perspectives on quality of life as related to dance
- Presents a thoughtful, expansive-yet-focused, and nuanced discussion of dance's contribution to human life
- Illuminates dance in relation to nature, philosophy, religion, life span, learning, love, teaching, creativity, ability, socio-cultural identity, politics and change, sex and gender, wellbeing, and more
Part of the book series: Social Indicators Research Series (SINS, volume 73)
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Table of contents (31 chapters)
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Dancing Ecology, Sustaining Earth
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Spirituality
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Philosophical Perspectives
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Dancing Gender, Dancing Family
Keywords
- Dance and Quality of Life
- Dance and Well-Being
- Arts in Human Development
- Drawing and Childhood Dance
- Intrinsic Dance and Quality of Moving
- Dance and Meaning in the Anthropocene
- Role of Dancing in Human Life
- Evolutionary Theories on Dance and Religion
- Dancing the Life Span
- Dance Education for Men
- Teenage Dancer's Perceptions of Identity
- Dancing Elders in Northern Australia
- Dance and Quality of Life in Schools
- Dance and Freedom for University Students
- Interactive Cognitive Subsystems (ICS)
- Teaching Dance in Dance in Higher Education
- Dancing with Post-Partum Depression
- Quality of Life of Dancers with Parkinson
- Life-Changing and Disability-Inclusive Dance
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Dance and the Quality of Life
Editors: Karen Bond
Series Title: Social Indicators Research Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95699-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-95698-5Published: 13 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-95699-2Published: 05 March 2019
Series ISSN: 1387-6570
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0099
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 570
Number of Illustrations: 52 b/w illustrations
Topics: Quality of Life Research, Dance, Aesthetics, Creativity and Arts Education