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In Dance for Sports, author, teacher, dancer, athlete, and researcher Margo Apostolos offers a new training approach for athletes and coaches that synthesizes common techniques between athletics and dance. By utilizing this approach, in- and off-season athletes can improve efficiency and technique.
Throughout the book, Apostolos shows the potential exchange between sport and dance in exercises that focus on overlapping physical components of both practices including flexibility, strength, coordination, agility, balance, and timing. She also demonstrates how dance serves sport as a cross training activity with additional opportunities for athletes to explore creativity, improvisation, and mindfulness. Discussion with athletes from several sports interweaves each chapter to expand the learning process and offer useful anecdotes. Based upon the author's decades-long career and extensive experience with athletes and coaches in a variety of sports such as football, basketball, swimming, tennis, track and field and more, Dance for Sports provides a fully integrative guide for students and instructors alike.
Dance for Sports A Practical Guide
by Apostolos, Margo K.Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2018-11-19
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary
Author Biography
Margo Apostolos is Associate Professor of Dance at University of Southern California and co-director and co-founder of the Cedars-Sinai/USC Glorya Kaufman Dance Medicine Center. In addition to teaching and research in dance and sport, her research includes work in robot choreography, dance medicine, dance science, and conditioning for dance.
Table of Contents
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Foreword By Steve Miller
Introduction
The Backstory
An Accidental Athlete: Boxing Baseball, and Ballet
The Framework of Dance For Sports
1. Seeing the Dance: Sport Similarity
2. Feeling the Dance: Transfer of Training
3. Hearing the Dance: The Rhythmic Response
4. Poetry In Motion: Kinesthetic Awareness
Mind and Body Fitness
5. Between the Linear and the Lateral: Creativity and Improvisation
6. Form, Fun, and Fitness: Cross Training
Beyond the Dance
7. Arête: Body and Spirit in Pure Symmetry
Glossary of Terms in Dance, Sport, and Anatomy
Conversations With Champions
Bibliography
Further Readings
Appendix - Dance For Divers
Index
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