This book deals with the concept of dance and fitness in an interdependent and comprehensive manner that would help dancers, dance trainers, and fitness enthusiasts to understand various fitness concepts for enhancing dance performances and maintaining health fitness. Professional dancers and dance trainers will gain extensive and appropriate knowledge about all those fitness elements, both the physical and neuro-motor and understand the most scientific methods to enhance and maintain them for achieving the required level of expertise in dance by the professional dancers. This book also helps the non-professional and recreational dancers to scientifically monitor their fitness levels which would help them to maintain the anticipated health fitness. The book dealt with the concepts of dance kinesiology including how the sports training methods are successfully integrated into the dance fitness training to enhance the professional dancer’s performances. An excellent description was made in the book about the relationship between fitness and dance performances and also the relationship between the dance practice and the health fitness of the individuals. Hence, this book serves not only professional dancers but also the general physical fitness enthusiasts who try dance as a medium of fitness enhancement tool in their pursuit of health fitness. More extensively, dance trainers are highly benefitted through this book as they can enhance their scientific knowledge on various concepts of professional dance training.
Contents –
1. Introduction to Dance and Dance Fitness for Health
2. Elements of Dance
3. Interactive Fitness Domains for Dance and Fitness
4. Other Interactive Fitness Domains for Dance and Fitness
5. Social, Environmental, Economic, Occupational, Spiritual, Intellectual and Other Fitness Domains for Dance and Fitness
6. Development, Optimisation and Maintenance of General Physical Fitness Factors for Dance and Fitness
7. Development, Optimization and Maintenance of Neuromuscular or Motor Fitness Components for Dance and Fitness
8. Psychological Training and Preparation of Dancers and Dance Practitioners
9. Dance Injuries and Prevention
10. Note on Comprehensive Dance Training
