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Laws, Kenneth L. was born on May 30, 1935 in Pasadena, California, United States. Son of Allen L. and Florence (Windsor) Laws.
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Physics and the Art of Dance gives all who enjoy dance - whether as dancers, students, teachers, or fans - an opportunity to understand what happens when human bodies move in the remarkable ways we call dance. How, for instance, do dancers create the illusion of defying gravity? Or of starting to spin when in the air with no source of force to act on their bodies? You may observe some dancers u...
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(Physics and the Art of Dance gives all who enjoy dance - ...)
Physics and the Art of Dance gives all who enjoy dance - whether as dancers, students, teachers, or fans - an opportunity to understand what happens when human bodies move in the remarkable ways we call dance. How, for instance, do dancers create the illusion of defying gravity? Or of starting to spin when in the air with no source of force to act on their bodies? You may observe some dancers using their arms in a way that allows some to jump higher than others. What is that technique, and why does it work? In this second edition, author Ken Laws - a physicist with years of professional dance training - teams with veteran dance instructor Arleen Sugano to provide new step-by-step experiments for dancers. "What you see" sections describe the way physical principles form the framework within which some movements exist. The complementary "What you do" sections allow dancers to experience how those physical analyses can provide them a more efficient means of learning how to carry out those movements. Throughout, the book shows how movements are first artistic expressions, and secondly movements of the body within the framework of easy-to-understand physical principles. Dancers and dance instructors will find in this book an efficient means of improving technical proficiency and growing professional and aesthetic development. For physics and science teachers, the book provides a new and compelling way to draw people into the world of science. And observers and fans of dance will marvel over the beautiful time-stop photography by renowned dance photographers Martha Swope and Gene Schiavone.
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Here is the unique and innovative book that applies basic principles of physics to the art of dance. Written by a physicist with professional dance training, this book explains how dancers can achieve better, safer performances through an understanding of physics in motion.
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Laws, Kenneth L. was born on May 30, 1935 in Pasadena, California, United States. Son of Allen L. and Florence (Windsor) Laws.
Bachelor of Science, California Institute Technology, 1956; Master of Science, University of Pennsylvania, 1959; Doctor of Philosophy, Bryn Mawr College, 1962.
Instructor physics, Hobart and William Smith Colls., Geneva, New York, 1958-1959; from assistant professor to professor physics, Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, since 1962; associate dean, director summer school, Dickinson College, Carlisle, 1971-1977; administrative director summer ballet program, Control Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, Carlisle, 1977-1987; president of the board directors, Control Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, 1988-1993. Guest faculty Scientific Aspect of the Art of Dance, U. Washington Medical school and Dance Department, 1982. Board reviewers Dance: Current Selected Research, since 1985.
(Physics and the Art of Dance gives all who enjoy dance - ...)
(Physics and the Art of Dance gives all who enjoy dance - ...)
(Here is the unique and innovative book that applies basic...)
Married Priscilla Watson, June 3, 1965. Children: Kevin Allen, Virginia.