DOCUMENT RESUME ED 299 228 SP 030 589 AUTHOR Beal, Rayma K., id.; Berryman-Miller, Sherrill, Ed TITLE Dance for the Ulder Adult. Focus on Dance XI. INSTITUTION American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, Reston, VA. National Dance Association. REPORT NO ISBN-0-88314-385-2 PUB DATE 88 NOTE 176p.; Photographs may not reproduce clearly. AVAILABLE FROM AAHPERD Publications, P.O. Box 704, 44 Industrial Park Center, Waldorf, MD 20601 ($12.95 plus postage and handling). PUB TYPE Collected Works - General (020) -- Guides General (050) -- Reference Materials - Bibliographies (131) EDRS PRICE MFO1 Plus Postage. PC Not AvailabLe from EDRS. DESCRIPTORS *Curriculum Development; *Dance; *Educational Resources; *Older Adults; Physical Fitness; *Program Development; Research ABSTRACT This monograph is a collection of articles designed to expand the information network, identify current programs, and provide research in the field of dance/movement and gerontology. Different approaches, techniques, and philosophies are documented by indi.fiduals who are active in the field. Articles are organized into six sections: (1) guidelines for activities with older adults; (2) programodelF; (3) research; (4) curricular program models; (5) intergenerational dance; and (6) resources. References accompany each article. The sixth section on selected reasons for dance and the older adult identifies: (1) books; (2) special publications; (3) selected articles from periodicals; (4) papers, monographs, proceedings and unpublished manuscripts; (5) masters and doctors degree theses; (6) films, videotapes, slides; (7) records, audiocassettes, manuals; (8) program and resource persons; (9) periodicals; and (10) agencies and organizations. (JD) *************mx*********x********************************vcx************ * Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made * * from the original document. * ******M*********************E***************************kA************* FOCUS ON DANCE XI Dance for the OLDER ADULT Rayma K. Beal Sherrill Berryman-Miller Editors A Project of the National Dance Association An Association of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance 01- On the cover: The Dance Exchange's "Dancers of the Third Age," directed by Liz Lerman. Photo courtesy of Bernd Uhlig, Hamburg, West Germany. Copyright @ 1988 The American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance 1900 Association Drive Reston, Virginia 22091 ISBN 0-88314.385-2 ii Purposes of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance The American Alliance is an educational organization, structured for the purposes of supporting, encouraging, and providing assistance to member groups and their personnel throughout the nation as they seek to initiate, develop, and conduct programs in health, leisure, and movement-related activities for the enrichment of human life. Alliance objectives include: 1. Professional growth and development-- to support, encourage, and provide guidance in the development and conduct of programs in health, leisure, and movement- related activities which are based on the needs, interests, and inherent capacities of the individual in today's society. 2. Communication-- tofacilitate public and professional understanding and appreciation of the importance and value of health, leisure, and movement-related activities as they contribute toward human well-being. 3. Research-- to encourage and facilitate research which will enrich the depth and scope of health, leisure, and movement-related activities; and to disseminate the findings to the profession and other interested and concerned publics. 4. Standards and guidelines-- tofurther the continuous development and evaluation of standards within the profession for personnel and programs in health, leisure, and movement-related activities. 5. Public affairs-- to coordinate and administer a planned program of professional, public, and governmental relations that will improve education in areas of health, leisure, and movement-related activities. 6. To conduct such other activities as shall be approved by the Board of Governors and the Alliance Assembly, provided that the Alliance shall not 'ngage in any activity which would be inconsistent with the status of an educational and charitable organization as defined in Section 501(c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 or any successor provision thereto, and none of the said purposes shall at any time be deemed or construed to be purposes other than the public benefit purposes and objectives consistent with such educational and charitable status. Bylaws, Article III iii Contents a Preface xi Rayma K. Beal Introduction SherrillBerryman-Miller I. GUIDELINES FOR ACTIVITIES WITH OLDER ADULTS 1. Moving into the Third Age: AAHPERD Serves a New Clientele 3 Rosebel Koss 2. An Overview of Dance 8 Cynthia P. Ensign 3. Guidelines for Using Dance with Older Adults 11 Richard Lopez 4. Guidelines for Exercise Programs for Older Persons 14 American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance 5. Dance as a Vehicle to Fitness for the Healthy Older Adult 16 Marianne McAdam 6. Benefits of Dance in the Process of Aging and Retirement for the Older Adult 28 SherrillBerryman-Miller II. PROGRAM MODELS 7. Movement Activities for Older Adults 34 Bernadette Hecox 8. Adaptation of Social and Popular Dances for the Elderly 39 Erna Cap low Lindner and Leah Harpaz 9. Jamaica Dance Forms 47 Sheila Barnett III.RESEARCH 10. The Aging Process:Benefits of Physical Activity 56 Everett Smith and Sally K. Zook 11. A Dance Activity Program for the Older Adult 62 Rayma K. Beal 12. Folk Dance and the Older Adult 71 Graham Hempel 13. Dance/Movement:Effects on Elderly Self-Concept 80 SherrillBerryman-Miller IV.CURRICULAR PROGRAM MODELS 14. Age Doesn't Matter: Weaving Dance and Aging into a Fifth Grade Curriculum 88 Josie Metal-Corbin, David Corbin, and Gwyn Barker 15. Shared Movement Programs:Children and Older Adults 96 Erna Caplow Lindner and Leah Harpaz 16. Dance Programs in Southeastern Connecticut 99 Linda Deutch and Pamela J. Lewis vi ri 17. Shared Movement Programs:College Students and Older Adults107 Josie Metal-Corbin V. INTERGENERATIONAL DANCE 18. Dance Belongs to Everyone 112 JeffBliss 19. An Interview with Liz Lerman 115 Cynthia P. Ensign 20. Teaching Dance to Senior Adults 118 Liz Lerman 21. All My Grandmothers Could Sing 120 Josie Metal-Corbin and Roger E. Foltz 22. Dance for Older Adults in a Worship Setting 126 Doug Adams 23. A Moving Experience: Young Children and Older Adults 128 Erna Caplow Lindner and Leah Harpaz V I. RESOURCES 24. Selected Resources for Dance and the Older Adult 134 Josie Metal-Corbin 25. 1984 and 1986 Dance Conferences SherrillBerryman-Miller r N1C Contributors Douglas Adams is Associate Professor of Christianity and the Arts at the Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, California. Sheila Bamett is Director of The Jamaica School of Dance in Kingston, Jamaica. Gwyn Barker is a fifth grade teacher at Mt. View Elementary School, Omaha, Nebraska. Rayma K. Beal is Assistant Professor of Dance at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky.Sherrill Berry- man-Miller ;s Assistant Professor of Dance at Howard University, in Washington, D.C. Jeff Bliss is a member of Liz Lerman's Dance Exchange and Director of Community Classes. David E. Corbin is Asso- ciate Professor, University of Nebraska, Omaha, Nebraska. Linda M. Deutch is Director of First Step, a community-based rehabiatation program for people with psychiatric problems, in New London, Con- necticut. Cynthia P. Ensign is an Assistant Professor at the University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa. Roger E. Foltz is an Associate Professor and Chair of Music in the Department of Music at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska. Leah Hai,Jaz is a faculty member of the trance De- partment, 92nd Street YM-YWHA, in New York City and Adjunct Instructor, Baruch College in New York City. Bernadette Hecox is an Associate Professor in the Clinical Physical Therapy Program in Physical Therapy, Columbia University, New York, New York. Graham Hempel is Associate Professor of Dance at San Diego State University, in San Diego, California. Rosebel Koss is Past Chair, ARAPCS and Professor Emeritus, Physical Education and Recreation Department, Ramapo College, Mahwah, New Jersey. Liz Lerman is Director of Dance Exchange and The Dancers of the Third Age and author of Teaching Modern Dance To Senior Citizens. Pamela J. Lewis is a part-time faculty member in Dance at Connecticut College and Dance Artist for Creative Connections Mothers in Prison Program in New Lon- don, Connecticut. Erna Cap low-Lindner is Professor in the Department of Health, Education and Recre- ation, Nassau Community College and Adjunct Profeslor at Ade 1phi University in Garden City, New York. Richard Lopez is Associate Professor in the Department of Subject Specialization at Florida Interna- tional University in Miami, Florida.Marianne McAdam is Project Director, Biogerentology Laborao- ry, Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin. Josie Metal- Corbin is Associate PrCessor, University of Nebraska, Omaha, Nebraska. Everett Smith is Director, Biogerentology Laboratory, Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin. Sally K. Zook is a graduate student, Department of Curriculum and Instruction Health Edu- cation, and a project assistant in preventive medicine in the