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Powerful, expressive, and compelling! Now you can see what it takes to be a stronger, more elegant dancer. Featuring over 200 full-color illustrations, Dance Anatomy visually depicts the unique relationship between muscle development and aesthetic movement as never before.

Dance Anatomy features 82 of the most effective dance, movement, and performance exercises, each designed to promote perfect alignment, improved placement, proper breathing, and prevention of common injuries. In stunning detail, the accompanying illustration captures the dancer in motion and highlights the active muscles associated with each movement.

You'll learn how to modify exercises to target specific areas to enhance flexibility and reduce muscle tension. You'll also learn to put it all together to personalize a program based on your style of dance, level of expertise, and individual needs and goals.

Whether you seek to optimize performance, add a new movement to your repertoire, or minimize muscle fatigue, stress, and injury, Dance Anatomy is your perfect partner.

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• Preface
• Chapter 1 The Dancer in Motion
• Chapter 2 Spine
• Chapter 3 Ribs and Breath
• Chapter 4 Core
• Chapter 5 Shoulder Girdle and Arms
• Chapter 6 Pelvis and Hips
• Chapter 7 Legs
• Chapter 8 Ankles and Feet
• Chapter 9 Whole-Body Training for Dancers
• Exercise Finder
• About the Author

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CHOICE Review

An athletic trainer for the Cincinnati Ballet and a specialist in dance medicine, Haas here addresses ballet and modern dancers who wish to learn the fundamentals of anatomical structure and principles of kinesiology in order to improve their dance technique and avoid injuries. Although other works provide a more thorough, inclusive discussion of dance anatomy and kinesiology (Sally Fitt's Dance Kinesiology, 2nd ed., CH, May'97, 34-5004, comes to mind), this accessible book serves as practical reference on joint, skeletal, and movement planes; strength, endurance, flexibility, and cardio-respiration exercises and conditioning principles. It can guide the physical development of all dancers, be they practicing professionals or student dancers. Teachers of all genres and styles of dance will appreciate the practical movement sequences, which will help their students develop specific muscles and correct technical weaknesses and skeletal misalignments. Haas devotes more than half the book to exercises that target specific muscles, making this source excellent for blending anatomical knowledge and specific dance techniques; understanding the relationships between joints, muscles, and bones in dance; and assuring that a dancer's technique is anatomically as well as aesthetically correct. Many of the exercises include illustrations that reveal static and dynamic alignment necessary to prevent injuries. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals. C. T. Bond Goucher College

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Jacqui Greene Haas has been the athletic trainer for the Cincinnati Ballet since 1989, is the director of dance medicine academic seminars (www.dancemedicine.net), and is the director of the dance medicine division of Wellington Orthopedics in Cincinnati, Ohio, where she treats dancers in physical therapy, postsurgical rehabilitation, and general conditioning.

A former professional ballet dancer with Boston Ballet, Southern Ballet Theatre, Tampa Ballet, New Orleans Ballet, and Cincinnati Ballet, Jacqui holds a BA in dance from the University of South Florida and an athletic training certificate from the University of Cincinnati. She also has a certificate in Pilates instruction from St. Francis Memorial Hospital dance division in San Francisco and a certificate in Pilates rehabilitation from Polestar Education in Miami, Florida. She has developed injury-prevention programs for numerous dance studios as well as the McGing Irish Dancers, the School for Creative and Performing Arts, and the University of Cincinnati dance department.

Jacqui is a frequent presenter, speaking to dancers, instructors, and health care practitioners, including presentations at the International Association of Dance Medicine and Science and the National Athletic Trainers' Association conferences. She has been published in Dance magazine and Advance Rehabilitation magazine.