annotated bibliography

Bibliography
Barrett, Sondra. Interview with Anna Halprin. Healing Health Care Communications.(1993).
Sondra Barrett, Ph.D., is a medical scientist who has also been on the Board of Directors of Tamalpa Institute and designs health-care programs in psychoneuroimmunology interviews Anna Halprin who created the Tamalpa Institiute. This interview about “the role of healing and how is this communicated” will give a unique example of dance being a nonverbal way of communication that deals with healing. The interview discusses how Halprin uses dance to help people with illnesses like cancer and AIDS.
Burgoon, Judee K, and Buller, David B, and Woodall, W. Gill. Nonverbal Communication: The
Unspoken Dialouge. New York: The McGraw-Hill Companies, 1996.
This book is written by three professors that have a range of expertise to draw from. Burgoon is a Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in communication at the U of A, Buller is an Associate Professor of communication at U of A, and Woodall is an Associate Professor of communication and journalism at the University of New Mexico. All have done research and/or authored books on nonverbal communication. This book will be helpful in defining nonverbal communication and link the importance of it to cultural and social communication.
Footloose. Dir. Herbert Ross. Paramount, 1984.
This film is about a high school city boy that moves to a small farming town with his mother and all the problems that come from being an outsider. The central argument that is in this film is about trusting. One of the trust issues in the film is about dancing. Dancing is illegal in the town because the preacher and other adults are terrified that it will lead the youth down the path of sinfulness and ruin. The main character brings up the idea of having a senior dance and uses the bible to support his argument. The film will be useful to my paper because it will be an example of the different ways dance is thought of in religion and society.
Feldman, Robert S, and Rime, Bernard, ed. Fundamentals of Nonverbal Behavior.
Cambridge:Cambridge University Press,1991.
This anthology has research from psychology, anthropology, sociology, and multiple other disciplines. The articles cover nonverbal communication topics on biological, sociodevelopmental, and cognitive approaches. There is also research on expression and gestures. The various articles will help to further define nonverbal communication and it’s importance in effective communication.
Hanna, Judith Lynne. To Dance is Human: A Theory of Nonverbal Communication.
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1979.
The author, Hanna views dance as not only a physical behavior but also a cultural, social, economic, political, and communicative behavior. She defines it as “a conceptual natural language with intrinsic and extrinsic meanings.” Through this view point, the author links nonverbal communication and dance, and also explores reasons for its unique benefits.
Ishee, Jimmy, ed. “Nonverbal Peer Pressure Teaches Adolescents to Avoid Risk.”
Journal of Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance. 74.7 (2003): 8, 19.
This article discusses adolescents and an exploratory study the showed that, “a substancial number of youths may experience, feel pressure from, and comply with various forms of nonverbal peer pressure.” It considers the importance of educating youths on nonverbal communication. This article will support the importance and presence of nonverbal communication in society.
Kemp, Martin. “Form Becomes Feeling.” Nature. 25 May 2006: 410.
The author, a professor at the University of Oxford, comments on Siobhan Davies and her troupe of dancers who are experimenting with exposing dancers and other people to situations like an operation to create new “dance vocabulary.” The situation discussed in the shows science and dance linked in an abstract way.
Peick, Melissa. “Dance as Communication: Messages Sent and Received Through Dance.”
UW-L Journal of Undergraduate Research VIII. (2005):1-11.
Peick does research to study the social setting of the dance floor at various bars and night clubs to examine the nonverbal communication the takes place on the dance floor. The author uses haptics, proxemics, and kinesics to show how people nonverbally communicate “flirting, confidence, sexuality, self-esteem, etc.” This study will help me link social aspects of dance to nonverbal communication.