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.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Semi-HelpfulBy Kathryn Page CampI purchased this book as research into period dress for a novel. It contains helpful descriptions of the fashion trends in each decade and the pictures do give some idea of what people were wearing; but most of this information is available for free on the Internet. Its nice to have a resource that I can pull from my shelf and refer to regularly; but this book did not turn out to be the one. Instead; I recommend "Victorian Fashions Costumes from Harpers Bazar 1867-1898;" edited by Stella Blum.5 of 6 people found the following review helpful. Excellent ResourceBy MarikoIm a Theatre Costume Design student; and in theatre accuracy is key. When researching the fashion of a certain historical time period; ideally you want to be able to look at the physical garments worn at the time. However; unless you are lucky enough to have a huge museum or costume collection at your disposal; thats pretty much impossible.Books like this; which feature collections of period photographs; are the next best thing. How can you doubt the reliability of the fashions depicted in a photograph when it was taken in the actual time period youre researching?This book is an excellent resource and I highly recomment it to anyone interested in historical costumes.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy SeemohAn excellent coverage of the history of Western fashion as captured in photographs.