The world of dance

By Melvin Berger

Subjects: Immunology, Metals & Controls Corporation, Juvenile literature, United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, National Academy of Sciences (U.S.), Brookings Institution, United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development, Research, Foreign relations, National Research Council (U.S.), Government policy, Science, Merck & Co, Science and state, Nuclear energy, National Science Foundation (U.S.), Zoology, World War, 1939-1945, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, Loyalty-security program, 1947-, Franklin Institute (Philadelphia, Pa.), Solar pumps, Air-engines, Cold War, United States, International cooperation, Smithsonian Institution, Carnegie Institution of Washington, United States. Joint Chiefs of Staff. Joint Commission on New Weapons and Equipment, Dance, Ornithology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States. Patent Office, United States. Council of National Defense. National Defense Research Committee, Fishing rods, Tufts University, Optics, Technology, History, Manhattan Project (U.S.), Dancers, Correspondence, Medicine, Johns Hopkins University

Description: Discusses the importance of dance in cultures throughout the world and describes the various forms of dance and their development from ancient times to the present. Also highlight important movements and major dancers of recent times.