Judith Lynne Hanna (Ph.D., Columbia University) is a senior research scholar in the Department of Dance at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Hanna, with her unique vision as a dancer and anthropologist, has written a wonderfully comprehensive book illuminating the interplay between dance and stress. By offering a cross-cultural perspective, she deftly describes dance across the world as both a strategy to communicate and relieve stress as well as a potential cause of stress to the performer and observer.

• Part 1 I. Setting the StageChapter 2 PreludeChapter 3 1. Evolution's GiftsChapter 4 2. Dance-Stress CouplingPart 5 II. Historical and Non-Western Dance-Stress RelationsChapter 6 3. Meeting the Gods and DemonsChapter 7 4. Shaking Off Poison, Plague, Death, and SinChapter 8 5. Coming to Terms with Life CrisesChapter 9 6. Resolving ConflictChapter 10 7. Revitalizing the Past and Facing the FuturePart 11 III. Western Dance-Stress RelationsChapter 12 8. "Playing" Onstage in Western Theatrical DanceChapter 13 9. A Dance Career in the WestChapter 14 10. Amateur Dancing in the WestChapter 15 11. Dance/Movement TherapyChapter 16 Finale: Dance and Stress Resistance, Reduction, and Euphoria

Judith Lynne Hanna (Ph.D., Columbia University) is a senior research scholar in the Department of Dance at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Hanna, with her unique vision as a dancer and anthropologist, has written a wonderfully comprehensive book illuminating the interplay between dance and stress. By offering a cross-cultural perspective, she deftly describes dance across the world as both a strategy to communicate and relieve stress as well as a potential cause of stress to the performer and observer.

• Part 1 I. Setting the StageChapter 2 PreludeChapter 3 1. Evolution's GiftsChapter 4 2. Dance-Stress CouplingPart 5 II. Historical and Non-Western Dance-Stress RelationsChapter 6 3. Meeting the Gods and DemonsChapter 7 4. Shaking Off Poison, Plague, Death, and SinChapter 8 5. Coming to Terms with Life CrisesChapter 9 6. Resolving ConflictChapter 10 7. Revitalizing the Past and Facing the FuturePart 11 III. Western Dance-Stress RelationsChapter 12 8. "Playing" Onstage in Western Theatrical DanceChapter 13 9. A Dance Career in the WestChapter 14 10. Amateur Dancing in the WestChapter 15 11. Dance/Movement TherapyChapter 16 Finale: Dance and Stress Resistance, Reduction, and Euphoria

Judith Lynne Hanna (Ph.D., Columbia University) is a senior research scholar in the Department of Dance at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Hanna, with her unique vision as a dancer and anthropologist, has written a wonderfully comprehensive book illuminating the interplay between dance and stress. By offering a cross-cultural perspective, she deftly describes dance across the world as both a strategy to communicate and relieve stress as well as a potential cause of stress to the performer and observer.

• Part 1 I. Setting the StageChapter 2 PreludeChapter 3 1. Evolution's GiftsChapter 4 2. Dance-Stress CouplingPart 5 II. Historical and Non-Western Dance-Stress RelationsChapter 6 3. Meeting the Gods and DemonsChapter 7 4. Shaking Off Poison, Plague, Death, and SinChapter 8 5. Coming to Terms with Life CrisesChapter 9 6. Resolving ConflictChapter 10 7. Revitalizing the Past and Facing the FuturePart 11 III. Western Dance-Stress RelationsChapter 12 8. "Playing" Onstage in Western Theatrical DanceChapter 13 9. A Dance Career in the WestChapter 14 10. Amateur Dancing in the WestChapter 15 11. Dance/Movement TherapyChapter 16 Finale: Dance and Stress Resistance, Reduction, and Euphoria