Dancers experience pain, joy, frustration, rapture, failure, applause, and are above the worldly concerns of food, money, and financial security. They live only to dance. Or do they? The reality is dancers of all ages, types, and skill levels often experience incredible physical and psychological stress and have traditionally bore their pain in stoic silence. In this much needed new book, Dance Magazine's Linda Hamilton offers dancers the same type of advice and understanding they have come to trust from her popular monthly column. Psychologist Hamilton--a former dancer with New York City Ballet under the legendary George Balanchine--offers a complete resource for coping with the day to day pressures of being a dancer. Page after page is filled with the insight that can only come from a person who has been intimately involved in the world of dance. Hamilton outlines strategies for dancers for dealing with a variety of common physical and psychological issues and shows how to be true to your passion and bring back the joy in dancing. The book is filled with answers to dancer's most often asked questions and offers practical methods for dealing with such difficult problems as eating disorders, substance abuse, ruthless competition, and performance anxiety. Advice for Dancers will teach you how to: * Achieve you physical potential and select the dance technique that's right for you * Find out which teaching practices you can trust and why * Learn how to reach your optimal weight without compromising your energy, health, and career * Develop healthy relationships both inside and outside the dance studio * Use a variety of resources to get work, roles, and promotions * Perform technical feats in front of an audience even when you are frightened Advice for Dancers is a result of Hamiltion's extensive research and years clinical work with dancers and includes information for a survey of more that 1,000 dancers from across the country.
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"an inspiring book with an impressive repertory of solutions to thepsychological and physical problems that challenge every dancer."(Dance Magazine, January 1999)
Excerpt in Dance Magazine, October, 1997.
Listed as a resource in Dance Magazine, January 1999.
Dr. Linda Hamilton, an associate professor at Fordham University,lecturer, psychologist, former dancer with the New York CityBallet, and author of Advice for Dancers, also writes a monthlyarticle, Advice for Dancers, in Dance Magazine."Linda Hamilton's book is excellent and needed. She touches on allaspects of being a dancer."
-- Jacques d' Amboise, founder, National Dance Institute, NewYork
"This book is an excellent guide that addresses the social,emotional, and physical needs of the developing dancer. I oftenrecommend it as a resource for our students and theirparents."
-- Peter J. Libman, Director of Student Life, School ofAmerican Ballet
"Dr. Linda Hamilton has for years brought her expertise and veryspecial knowledge, both as a clinical psychologist and formerdancer with the New York City Ballet, to her widely read column inDance Magazine. Now she extends the range of her work to embracethe dancer and his or her body¾the problems that can beencountered, the symptoms that can be noticed, and, most important,the action that can be taken. Dr. Hamilton is one of the liveliestwriters on dance today, and she has the ability to bring everydayclasses and stage stress and strains to vivid and immediatelife."
-- Clive Barnes, senior theater critic, the New York Post,and senior consulting editor, Dance Magazine
"The advice and information in this book should be consideredthe 'gold standard' for anyone involved in the dance world. LindaHamilton covers all the necessary elements in a dancer's life, andall dancers can benefit from the practical strategies that sherecommends to reduce excessive stress, whether it is mental orphysical."
-- Marika Molnar, PT, director of physical therapy, WestsideDance Physical Therapy and New York City Ballet and the School ofAmerican Ballet
Excerpt in Dance Magazine, October, 1997.
Listed as a resource in Dance Magazine, January 1999.
Dr. Linda Hamilton, an associate professor at Fordham University,lecturer, psychologist, former dancer with the New York CityBallet, and author of Advice for Dancers, also writes a monthlyarticle, Advice for Dancers, in Dance Magazine."Linda Hamilton's book is excellent and needed. She touches on allaspects of being a dancer."
-- Jacques d' Amboise, founder, National Dance Institute, NewYork
"This book is an excellent guide that addresses the social,emotional, and physical needs of the developing dancer. I oftenrecommend it as a resource for our students and theirparents."
-- Peter J. Libman, Director of Student Life, School ofAmerican Ballet
"Dr. Linda Hamilton has for years brought her expertise and veryspecial knowledge, both as a clinical psychologist and formerdancer with the New York City Ballet, to her widely read column inDance Magazine. Now she extends the range of her work to embracethe dancer and his or her body¾the problems that can beencountered, the symptoms that can be noticed, and, most important,the action that can be taken. Dr. Hamilton is one of the liveliestwriters on dance today, and she has the ability to bring everydayclasses and stage stress and strains to vivid and immediatelife."
-- Clive Barnes, senior theater critic, the New York Post,and senior consulting editor, Dance Magazine
"The advice and information in this book should be consideredthe 'gold standard' for anyone involved in the dance world. LindaHamilton covers all the necessary elements in a dancer's life, andall dancers can benefit from the practical strategies that sherecommends to reduce excessive stress, whether it is mental orphysical."
-- Marika Molnar, PT, director of physical therapy, WestsideDance Physical Therapy and New York City Ballet and the School ofAmerican Ballet