Education and Early Dance: Proceedings of a Conference Held at the Royal Society of Arts, London, on 27 February 1999

Proceedings of a conference held at the Royal Society of Arts, London, on 27February 1999Eight papers are devoted to the place, value and organisation of Early Dance within education, from Primary School to Teacher Training College, as well as in a variety of contexts within the community, such as with the visuallyimpaired, in the juvenile ballet class, with drama students, in living historyevents and in public concerts.Table of ContentsDavid Wilson: Introduction1. John Harland: Effects and effectiveness ofthe teaching of Dance in schools2. Mary Collins: 'The Art that All Other Arts D0 Approve'3. Judy Smith: Dance teaching packs: guidelines for producers4. Anne Blomfield: The dancing children of Clifton Hall5. June McKay: Blind Dance6. Nicola Gaines: Early Dance in the preliminary training of children in Classical ballet7. Diana Scrivener: Setting the stage for Early Dance 8. Catherine Bowness: From goals and scrums to mediaeval drums: conversion in a non-dancing society