Inner Rhythm: Dance Training for the Deaf

by Naomi Benari

Overview

In Inner Rhythm, Naomi Benari provides exciting new ways to teach dance to the profoundly deaf by showing: methods and games she devised with children to heighten their awareness of rhythm, music and the breath inherent in every dance movement; how the knowledge of music is the basis for dance teaching and how this knowledge can enhance the raining of hearing dancers; opportunities for children to express their unarticulated feelings and thoughts; how children can learn to socialize and to explore the world in which they live; and how to teach dance to the profoundly deaf in a vareity of schools and settings.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783718656127
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/02/1997
Series:	Performing Arts Studies , #3
Pages:	112
Product dimensions:	7.44(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Naomi Benari danced with Ballet Rambert and with the Israeli Opera. She formed Dance for Everyone, the first dance company in England set up solely for work in education. She now lectures on the Performing Arts and teaches dance to profoundly deaf children in a number of schools and units using Inner Rhythm and also gives therapeutic dance sessions to children with learning difficulties.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Communication; Chapter 2 Inner Rhythm; Chapter 3 The Workshop or Class; Chapter 4 Creative Dance; Chapter 5 Pulse and Rhythm; Chapter 6 Rhythm into Dance; Chapter 7 Inner Rhythm for All;

Editorial Reviews

"A well stuctured book with clear photographs....Written by an author well qualified in the area of dance."

"A valuable resource for teachers of the deaf, dance teachers and anyone interested in dance."

"A detailed exciting small gem.....[Benari] is an energizer of the teaching process far beyond the field of dance."

From the Publisher

A detailed exciting small gem.....[Benari] is an energizer of the teaching process far beyond the field of dance.

Newswaves

A valuable resource for teachers of the deaf, dance teachers and anyone interested in dance.

Talk

A well stuctured book with clear photographs....Written by an author well qualified in the area of dance.

Bartod Magazine