ABSTRACT

In Inner Rhythm, Naomi Benari provides exciting new ways to teach dance to the profoundly deaf by showing: methods and games she devised with children to heighten their awareness of rhythm, music and the breath inherent in every dance movement; how the knowledge of music is the basis for dance teaching and how this knowledge can enhance the raining of hearing dancers; opportunities for children to express their unarticulated feelings and thoughts; how children can learn to socialize and to explore the world in which they live; and how to teach dance to the profoundly deaf in a vareity of schools and settings.

chapter 1|7 pages

Communication

chapter 2|4 pages

Inner Rhythm

chapter 3|12 pages

The Workshop or Class

chapter 4|11 pages

Creative Dance

Themes

chapter 5|11 pages

Pulse and Rhythm

chapter 6|6 pages

Rhythm into Dance

chapter 7|3 pages

Inner Rhythm for All