Physics and the Art of Dance: Understanding Movement
by Kenneth Laws
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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 show more impressive lifts and turns executed by ballet partners. Finally, Laws offers insight into two current discu show lessTags
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Kenneth Laws is Professor Emeritus of Physics at Dickinson College. He has been active in the Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet, teaching ballet classes there and at Dickinson College since the 1980s. He is the author of two books about physics and dance and is the leading expert on the subject.
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