Dancing & Teaching Dance based on Dance Medicine & Science – The Symbiosis of the Future - Volume 1

This series aims to explain the importance of a fusion between dancing, teaching dance, dance medicine and science. A symbiosis of the disciplines leads to dance medical dance pedagogy and evidence-based training as the only way to install teaching as well as training climates, which can enhance dancers’ and teachers’/trainers’ performance while preventing their injuries and ill-health. Teachers, pedagogues, trainers, masters, or artistic directors are the first and foremost institutions, when it comes to performance enhancement and injury prevention, with the closest contact to and the highest influence on dancers. Their education, content knowledge on dance medicine and science, and the motivational climates and training approaches they create through that wisdom will decide over the dancers’ health, wellbeing and ability to perform. Moreover, their inspiration and dedication to include dance medicine and science into practice can promote their own health and work as teachers and trainers.
This book series also serves dancers of all levels and styles on their way towards autonomy and maturity with regard to their own knowledge, wellbeing, and skill development. At the same time, it shines a special spotlight on teaching, training, and administrating personnel, society, politics, and media and their role in this development of the dancer, from little children to professional adult dancers. This series provides guidance why and how practical implementation of dance medicine and dance medical dance pedagogy can and must be achieved. Based on in-depth scientific background discussion of the great number of aspects involved, these books involve and address dancers as well as educators, clinicians and administrations.
Volume 1 – Basic Aspects of the Disciplines discusses performance enhancement & injury prevention in praxis and theory based on the background of the disciplines involved. This book lays the basis for the subsequent books of the series, relating aspects, goals, needs and demands in dance to what dance medicine and science can provide for dancers’, teachers’ and trainers’ health and performance.