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BOOK SUMMARIES

The following is a short list of texts that we have found to be useful. Click on the title to view a brief overview as well as a description of how the text was used in the classroom If you would like to read the summaries as a whole,

Dance Science

Grossman, Gayanne. Dance Science.

    Hightstown: Princeton Book Company, 2015.

    ISBN: 9780871273871

Conditioning for Dancers

Welsh T. Conditioning for Dancers.

    Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2009.

    ISBN 978-0-8130-3390-7

Dance Medicine in Practice: Anatomy, Injury Prevention, Training.

Simmel L. Dance Medicine in Practice: Anatomy, Injury Prevention, Training.

    New York: Routledge, 2014.

    ISBN: 978-0-415-80939-9

Dance Kinesiology

Fitt SS. Dance Kinesiology. 2nd ed.

    New York: Schirmer Books, 1996.

    ISBN: BN0028645073

Taking Root to Fly: Articles on Functional Anatomy

Dowd I. Taking Root To Fly: Articles on Functional Anatomy. 3 Revised ed. 2005. ISBN: 978-0964580503

Anatomy of Movement

Calais-Germain B. Anatomy of Movement. Revised ed.

    Seattle: Eastland Press, 2007.

    ISBN: 978-0939616572

Dance Anatomy and Kinesiology

Clippinger KS. Dance Anatomy and Kinesiology. 2nd ed.

    Champaign: Human Kinetics, 2016.

    ISBN: 978-1-4504-6928-9

An Illustrated Atlas of the Skeletal Muscles.

Bowden BS, Bowden JM. An illustrated atlas of the skeletal muscles. 4th ed.

    Englewood: Morton Publishing Company, 2015.

    ISBN: 978-61731-172-7

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