Finding Balance Fitness, Training, and Health for a Lifetime in Dance [Hardcover]

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.Gigi Berardiis book review editor for the Journal ofDance Medicine and Science, a regular columnist for DanceInternationaland a correspondent for Dance Magazine; her articles have appeared both in daily newspapers and specialized dance research journals. A Fulbright scholar with a masters in dance from the University of California, Los Angeles, Berardi currently teaches at Western Washington University.