After twenty five years of empirical research,"best selling author" Frank R Ross has written his groundbreaking book "Soul Dancing! The Essential African American Cultural Dance Book" (first published in 2010 by the National Dance Association), with an accompanying music cd series.
"Soul Dancing" firmly establishes the new American arts discipline of "African American Cultural Dance". "Soul Dancing" has redefined African American dance from its previous, erroneous definition of "vernacular" (native or natural) to the correct definition of cultural. Mr Ross's research suggest that African American cultural dances are not listed or taught in the school or university dance curriculum like other ethnic dances have been taught in the schools for over two hundred years. African Americans will tell you that they learned square dancing and ethnic dances in physical ed class but never African American dance.
Mr Ross has established a lexicon, pedagogy and technique that has passed state and national dance education standards. New York City Schools state that "Soul Dancing" is a wonderful book as they welcomed it into the New York schools Dance Education Curriculum. The New York City Schools hosted an historic workshop on Broadway Avenue for Mr Ross.
The Maple Hts and Twinsburg schools use "Soul Dancing" in their Phys Ed curriculums and both districts have hosted teacher workshops for Mr. Ross.
Soul Dancing validates the first National Folk, wedding and unity dance of African Americans - (The Grand March).
Mr.Ross is a retired educator with the Cleveland Hts Schools, and a hall of fame athlete at his alma mater, Central State University.
Contact: jross1201@yahoo.com / 216.253.6934
Website: www.africanamericanculturaldance.com
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It's about time. Hopefully "Soul Dancing" will become part of every school gymnastics curriculum
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