Finding Balance: Fitness, Training, and Health for a Lifetime in Dance

By Gigi Berardi

Book Overview

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 Control" section. It concludes with a list of selected dance/arts medicine clinics, a bibliography, glossary, and text notes.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415943396
• ISBN13: 9780415943390
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.9" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

Must Have Dance Book

This book is great. There are chapters on dance fitness that I haven't seen anywhere else. And it's easy to read, for a technical manual. A wonderful source of facts for the dancer who wants to stay healthy.