Skip to content
Cart (0) Free shipping over $35*
Buybacks (0) Free shipping on buybacks
loading
Help Contact
Return rental ›

Physics and the Art of Dance Understanding Movement

Best in textbook rentals since 2012!

ISBN-10: 0195149165

ISBN-13: 9780195149166

Edition: 2002

Authors: Kenneth Laws, Martha Swope, Martha Swope

List price: $35.00
Blue ribbon 30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!
Marketplace
3 new & used from $16.11
what's this?
Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:
Carrot Coin icon
XP icon
You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Written by a physicist with professional dance training, Physics and the Art of Dance explains how dancers can achieve better, safer performances through an understanding of physics in motion. Using simple, non-technical terms, Kenneth Laws combines his knowledge of both physics and dance to describe how the laws of gravity, momentum, and energy affect dancing bodies. The book explores the natural laws that govern the subtleties of balance, the techniques of leaps and pirouettes, and the impressive lifts and turns executed by ballet partners. Finally, Laws offers insight into two current discussions in the dance world--the effect of body size on ballet technique, and the relationship…    
Customers also bought

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/31/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 9.80" wide x 7.80" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English

Foreword
Introduction
Balance
Motions without turns
Pirouettes
Turns in the air
The Pas de Deux
The mechanics of partnered turns
The mechanics of lifts
The effects of body size
A step into the future
Linear mechanics and Newton's laws
Rotational mechanics
Anatomical data for dancers
Rotational inertia for some body configurations
Acceleration away from balance
Off-balance Pirouettes
Arabesque turn analysis
Quantitative analysis of the Grande Pirouette
Quantitative analysis of the Fouette turn
Quantitative analysis of the supported Fouette turn
Lean, don't slip
  • TextbookRush.com BBB Business Review
  • Trustpilot
Like TextbookRush on Facebook Follow TextbookRush on X Follow TextbookRush on Instagram Subscribe to TextbookRush on YouTube Follow TextbookRush on Pinterest Add TextbookRush on Snapchat Add TextbookRush on TikTok
© 2002-2024 TextbookRush
Subscribe