Ideas and activities to implement the main topics are organized sequentially. Stephan Leonard is followed to Russia where he trains and then performs. The biography is integrated with the realities of the state of dance in Canada from the 1920s to the 1950s. Original black and white photographs enhance the text. The themes are categorized by experience level, number of participants, and purpose.
Narration discusses how cultures influence styles of dance and how technology affects dance.
Two 60-minute video tapes present a series of activities for teaching improvisation from various aspects. The accompanying teacher's manual provides clearly stated objectives, lesson goals, activities, teaching hints, and coaching phrases. Resource binder and two audio cassettes with music provide students with opportunities to explore movement and self-expression through solving movement problems. The binder contains 120 movement activities in 40 well-organized lesson plans. It includes sections on the classical ballet steps, mime, make-up, costumes, character dancing performance, other dance forms, and choreography.