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Acknowledgements

Amanda Burrows is a graduate of Laban and gained an MA in Education from The Open University. She has taught dance in secondary schools, FE colleges, universities and in community settings. Amanda is currently Head of Curriculum for Visual, Performing Arts and Media at Grantham College, and has produced materials for the Open Univerity's Teachandlearn.net, repurposed here for openlearn.

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Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this unit:

All photos by Fausto Dorelli, from Cohan, R. ‘The Dance Workshop’, 1986. Gaia Books Ltd., Octopus Publishing, Hamlyn.

Rist, R. ‘Dance Science’, Dancing Times, December 1991.

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