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.
Biography
Naomi Benari danced with Ballet Rambert and with the Israeli Opera. She formed Dance for Everyone, the first dance company in England set up solely for work in education. She now lectures on the Performing Arts and teaches dance to profoundly deaf children in a number of schools and units using Inner Rhythm and also gives therapeutic dance sessions to children with learning difficulties.
"A well stuctured book with clear photographs....Written by an author well qualified in the area of dance."
"A valuable resource for teachers of the deaf, dance teachers and anyone interested in dance."
"A detailed exciting small gem.....[Benari] is an energizer of the teaching process far beyond the field of dance."
