Finding balance : fitness, training, and health for a lifetime in dance / / Gigi Berardi

• Autore: Berardi Gigi M.
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2005
• Edizione: 2nd ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (291 p.)
• Disciplina: 792.8
• Soggetto topico: Dance; Dancers; Physical fitness; Dancing injuries - Prevention; Health
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-258) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Finding Balance; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Preface: Warm-Up; 1 Dance: A Challenging Profession; The Demands of Dance; Pushing the Body Image; Overuse and Overload: Practice Does Not Make Perfect; The Show Must Go On: The Pressure to Perform; Older Dancers: Moving Out or Moving On?; Finding Balance: How Dance Medicine and Science Can Help; Finding Balance: The Dancer as Lifelong Learner; Finding a Place in the World of Dance; Profiles; Elizabeth Streb; Roxane d'Orléans Juste; Carrie Imler; David Parsons ; David Zurak2 Injury and Injury Treatment; Types of Injuries in Dance and Risk Factors; Risk Factors; The Preadolescent and Adolescent Dancer: Special Considerations; Recommendations for Training; Treatment and Rehabilitation; Multidisciplinary Approaches and Complementary Therapies; Rehabilitation; Physical Therapy; Complementary Adjuncts; Sample Rehabilitation Program; Transitional Class; Parting Words: For the Dancer, the Company, the Healthcare Team; Profiles; Catherine Cabeen; Koichi Kubo; Li Chiao-Ping; Louise Nadeau; 3 Technique and Training; What Is Technique?; Training for Technique ; Analytical Tools for TechniqueAnalyzing Movement Using Physical Principles; Plié; Arabesque; Pirouette; Jumps; Lifts; Structural and Functional Analysis; Foot and Ankle; Hip: External Rotation; Hip: Extension; Experiential Tools for Technique; Visualization Techniques Applied to Alignment; Somatic Disciplines in Dance; Ideokinesis; Alexander Technique; Selecting a Teacher; Profiles; Bill Evans; Cher Carnell; Donald Byrd; Kelen Laine; Gus Solomons jr; 4 The Fit Dancer: Conditioning the Body for Strength, Endurance, and Flexibility; Strength; Warming Up; A Warmup Primer ; Strength Training Using Body Weight for ResistanceKaripides Floor Work; Core Stabilization; Yoga (for Strengthening and Stretching); Pilates Method Floor Work; GYROKINESIS®; Strength Training Using Increased Resistance; Elastic Resistance; Resistance Machines; Free Weights for Resistance; Pilates; Endurance; Endurance Conditioning; Class and Rehearsal; Supplemental Aerobic Training; Some Considerations in Selecting Training Modes; Flexibility; Stretching Techniques; Stretching Programs; Conditioning and Class; Profiles; Jan Dunn; Murray Louis; Gary Galbraith ; 5. Nutrition, Weight Management, and Diet for DanceThe Young Dancer: Diet and Health, Growth and Development; Energy Nutrients and Water: A Primer; Carbohydrates; Fat; Protein; Water; Energy Expenditure: A Primer; Recommended Dietary Allowances and Dietary Reference Intakes: New Guidelines on Diet; Recommended Intakes of Energy Nutrients; Diet and Weight Control; The Importance of Carbohydrates; Feasting and Fasting; How Do Diets "Work"?; Fat Mobilization; Energy In, Energy Out?; Achieving a Balanced Diet; Should the Food Pyramid Be the Food Square?; Recommendations for a Balanced Diet ; Choreographing Meals
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 Co
• Titolo autorizzato: Finding balance
• ISBN: 1-136-07106-7; 0-203-44600-3; 1-283-96533-X; 1-136-07098-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910820236103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II