Download or read book Dance Access and Inclusion written by Stephanie Burridge and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The arts have a crucial role in empowering young people with special needs through diverse dance initiatives. Inclusive pedagogy that integrates all students in rich, equitable and just dance programmes within education frameworks is occurring alongside enabling projects by community groups and in the professional dance world where many high-profile choreographers actively seek opportunities to work across diversity to inspire creativity. Access and inclusion is increasingly the essence of projects for disenfranchised and traumatised youth who find creative expression, freedom and hope through dance. This volume foregrounds dance for young people with special needs and presents best practice scenarios in schools, communities and the professional sphere. International perspectives come from Australia, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, Denmark, Fiji, Finland, India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Norway, Papua New Guinea, Portugal, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Taiwan, Timor Leste, the UK and the USA. Sections include: inclusive dance pedagogy equality, advocacy and policy changing practice for dance education community dance initiatives professional integrated collaborations

Download or read book Making an Entrance written by Adam Benjamin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-06-24 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of Making an Entrance is a practical and thought-provoking introduction to teaching dance with disabled and non-disabled students, updated with expanded coverage, new and revised exercises, and chapters that cover post-pandemic and online practice, diversity and inclusivity. With improvisation as his central concern Benjamin covers an extensive range of topics, including new autoethnographic writing, mental health, performance, feedback, and The Dancers’ Forest, and interrogates what we mean when we talk about ‘inclusive’ and ‘integrated dance.’ There are over 50 stimulating and challenging exercises purposefully designed for dance students of all levels accompanied by teaching notes, and examples drawn from the author’s experience as a teacher, performer, and dance maker. Useful hints are provided on the practicalities of setting up workshops covering issues such as class sizes, the safety aspects of wheelchairs and accessibility. An essential read for both students and teachers of improvisation who are seeking ways to engage with issues of diversity, written to be accessible whilst offering areas of increasing complexity and challenge for more experienced practitioners.

Download or read book Dance and Belonging written by Crystal U. Davis and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-12-16 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book details how bias affects the brain, perception and decision-making--and identifies how these factors affect the field of dance. It applies social psychology to the events, communities, and teaching strategies in dance classrooms of all sizes and age ranges. Using critical theory as a framework, chapters define implicit biases and explore the power dynamics on and off the dance floor. Various examples of bias in dance education are examined in detail, as are the ramifications of prejudice and inequity. The book sets out the mechanisms that both exacerbate and disrupt the effects of biases, ultimately exploring practiced solutions for addressing bias in the dance classroom. It is intended to inspire dance students, teachers, administrators and arts stakeholders to begin new conversations that will allow dance classrooms to become more welcoming, inclusive spaces.

Download or read book Dance Partnering Basics written by Brandon Whited and published by Human Kinetics. This book was released on 2024-01-02 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dance Partnering Basics: Practical Skills and Inclusive Pedagogy With HKPropel Access presents easy-to-implement, technique-based partnering instruction for dancers of all ages. The exercises and techniques, which are broken down into parts and presented in a skill progression, from beginner to advanced, can be applied to a variety of dance forms. The book offers a plethora of tools to help dance educators in providing expert partnering instruction: 18 illustrated exercises that teach techniques, mechanics, and individual partnered skills; each exercise includes additional variations and explorations Tips for developing a partnering component and integrating it into an existing dance program or curriculum Related online materials delivered via HKPropel, including over 40 video clips demonstrating partnering exercises, vocabulary, questions for discussion and reflection, and assessments and rubrics to help assess student progress Inclusive, Nongendered Approach The text uses an inclusive, nongendered approach to dance partnering, as opposed to the traditional male and female roles. Instead of using man/woman labels in the instructions, author Brandon Whited uses terminology such as partner A/partner B,leader/follower, and supported partner/supportive partner. This approach gives a broad appeal to dance partnering. Book Contents Dance Partnering Basics is organized around the foundational elements of dance—time, weight, energy and flow, and space. Chapter 1 provides a concise history and explanation of dance partnering forms and considers the broad implications for the practice as a vital component of dance education and training. Chapter 2 focuses on class planning, course development, foundational concepts, and teaching techniques. It also offers foundational skills and exercises. Chapter 3 delves into the body as an instrument, discussing biomechanics, safety, cross-training, nutrition, wellness, and self-care. It also offers more advanced skills, building off of those offered in the previous chapter. In chapter 4, readers explore the relationship between partnership and creativity, digging into tactics, exercises, and choreographic prompts that can help unlock creativity. It contains the exercises with the most advanced skills and partnership principles. And finally, chapter 5 outlines dance education philosophies, which include establishing a safe space, a supportive environment, and a community within the classroom and beyond. Dance Partnering Basics is a highly practical resource for dance educators and teachers across all levels, from K-12 to higher education as well as private studios. It is an ideal text to teach partnering, regardless of the students’ ages, their skill level, or the dance genre. With its unique inclusive approach, this book is a welcome and much-needed addition to the dance field. Note: A code for accessing HKPropel is not included with this ebook but may be purchased separately.

Download or read book Inclusive Creative Movement and Dance written by Karen A. Kaufmann and published by Human Kinetics. This book was released on 2006 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to the inclusion techniques when teaching dance, this work provides strategies for including a variety of ability levels in dance and movement experiences.

Download or read book Creating Inclusive Elementary School Dance Education Environments written by Michelle R. Zitomer and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inclusion, despite being a topic of discussion and debate across education domains internationally, has received limited research attention in dance education. Inclusion is grounded in an understanding that students with disabilities have a right to be educated alongside their peers in general education classrooms. Inclusive dance provides opportunities for people of all abilities, including individuals with mobility or cognitive disabilities, to experience dance by enabling equal access to all its activities. The purpose of this dissertation study is to explore how an inclusive dance education environment is created for elementary school children with disabilities. Specifically, three research questions were posed: (a) How do dance teachers perceive inclusion and their roles and actions in creating inclusive dance education environments?; (b) How do students with disabilities perceive the elementary school dance education environment?; and (c) How do students without disabilities perceive disability in the context of elementary school dance education? Relational ethics was the conceptual framework that guided study development and interpretation. A qualitative interpretivist approach facilitated the process of understanding the experiences of four dance teachers, eight children with disabilities, and fourteen classmates without disabilities. Data collection involved interviews, observations, and field notes. Data analysis followed interpretive thematic analysis guidelines. This paper-based dissertation consists of three papers. The first addresses the teachers' perceptions and roles, the second addresses students with disabilities, and the third addresses classmates of students with disabilities. In addition, an introductory chapter sets the stage for this research, and a culminating chapter summarizes the findings from the individual papers, and discusses implications for research and professional practice. This study contributes to extending practical and theoretical knowledge in dance education and inclusive education. Insights from this study suggest that elementary school dance education can potentially offer students a safe learning environment that enables collaborative movement exploration, problem solving, and creativity. The environment is created by teachers who are committed to inclusion and value the uniqueness of each student. Through participation in this environment classmates learn to regard uniqueness as an ordinary aspect of their classroom diversity, and students with disabilities gain a sense of belonging.

Download or read book The Color of Dance written by TaKiyah Wallace-McMillian and published by Black Dog & Leventhal. This book was released on 2023-09-26 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the photographer behind the Instagram sensation Brown Girls Do Ballet, this stunning coffee-table book showcases breathtaking images of ballerinas of color of all ages and levels that reflect today’s beautifully diverse world of dance. For decades the prominent image of a ballet dancer has been a white body with pale clothing. It took 75 years for American Ballet Theatre to have its first African American female principal dancer, Misty Copeland. When TaKiyah Wallace-McMillian went to enroll her three-year-old daughter into her first ballet class, she immediately saw this lack of diversity and representation—even on her local dance studio’s website. Within weeks TaKiyah, a freelance photographer, began shooting a project she called Brown Girls Do Ballet, which eventually became an Instagram hit and a nonprofit organization that provides resources, mentorship, inspiration, and encouragement to young dancers of color worldwide. For her first book, The Color of Dance, TaKiyah traveled around the United States seeking out dancers of African, Asian, East Indian, Hispanic, and Native American ancestry. With these more than 190 breathtaking images of colorful ballerinas of all ages and levels, both amateur and professional, TaKiyah gives a voice to dancers who have been underrepresented for too long. With dozens of quotes throughout from ballerinas themselves, The Color of Dance redefines what this classically Eurocentric art form has looked like for centuries and will inspire dancers—and all of us—to pursue our dreams no matter what barriers are put in front of us.

Download or read book Breadth of Bodies written by Emmaly Wiederholt and published by . This book was released on 2022-03 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breadth of Bodies seeks to investigate and dismantle the language and stereotypes often used to describe professional dancers with disabilities. Spearheaded by dancer/writer Emmaly Wiederholt and dance educator Silva Laukkanen with illustrations by visual artist Liz Brent-Maldonado, the team collected interviews with 35 professional dance artists with disabilities from 15 countries, asking about training, access, and press, as well as looking at the state of the field.

Download or read book Dance Disability and Law written by Sarah Whatley and published by Intellect Books. This book was released on 2018-07-15 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection is the first book to focus on the intersection of dance, disability, and the law. Bringing together a range of writers from different disciplines, it considers the question of how we value, validate, and speak about diversity in performance practice, with a specific focus on the experience of differently-abled dance artists within the changing world of the arts in the United Kingdom. Contributors address the legal frameworks that support or inhibit the work of disabled dancers and explore factors that affect their full participation, including those related to policy, arts funding, dance criticism, and audience reception.

Download or read book Making an Entrance written by Adam Benjamin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making an Entrance is the first ever practical introduction to teaching dance with disabled and non disabled students. This clearly written, thought provoking and hugely enjoyable manual is essential reading whether you're just starting out or are already active in the field. Taking improvisation as his focus and as the starting point of choreographic exploration, Adam Benjamin asks what it has to offer as an art form and how it can be better used to meet the changing needs of dance education. In the theoretical section Benjamin explores the history of a disintegrated dance practice, placing it within the wider context of cultural and political movements. He questions what is meant today when we talk about 'inclusive' or 'integrated dance' and what we might expect of it. The book includes over 50 exercises and improvisations designed to stimulate and challenge students at all levels of dance. Benjamin also includes useful hints on the practicalities of setting up workshops covering issues as diverse a class size, the safety aspects of wheelchairs and the accessibility of dance spaces.

Download or read book Dancing in the World written by Sinclair Ogaga Emoghene and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-08-16 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can we create more inclusive spaces in the field of dance? This book presents a framework for dance practitioners and researchers working in diverse dance cultures to navigate academia and the professional dance field. The framework is based on the idea of "cultural confluences," conjuring up an image of bodies of water meeting and flowing into and past one another, migrating through what the authors refer to as the mainstream and non-mainstream. These streams are fluid categories that are associated with power, privilege, and the ability (or inability) to absorb other cultural forms in shared dance spaces. In reflective interludes and dialogues, Emoghene and Spanos consider the effects of migration on their own individual experiences in dance to understand what it means to carry culture through the body in various spaces. Through an analysis of language, aesthetic values, spaces, creative processes, and archival research practices, the book offers a collaborative model for communicating the value that marginalized dance communities bring to the field. This book will be of great interest to students, scholars, and arts administrators in dance.

Download or read book Inclusive Dance written by Katy Dymoke and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Dancing Across Borders written by Charlotte Svendler Nielsen and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dancing Across Borders presents formal and informal settings of dance education where initiatives in different countries transcend borders: cultural and national borders; subject borders; professional borders and socio-economic borders. It includes chapters featuring different theoretical perspectives on dance and cultural diversity, alongside case narratives that show these perspectives in a specific cultural setting. In this way, each section charts the processes, change, and transformation in the lives of young people through dance. Key themes include how student learning is enhanced by cultural diversity, experiential teaching and learning involving social, cross-cultural and personal dimensions. This conceptually aligns with the current UNESCO protocols that accent empathy, creativity, cooperation, collaboration alongside skills and knowledge -based learning in an endeavour to create civic mindedness and a more harmonious world. This volume is an invaluable resource for teachers, policy makers, artists and scholars interested in pedagogy, choreography, community dance practice, social and cultural studies, aesthetics, and inter-disciplinary arts. By understanding the impact of these cross-border collaborative initiatives, readers can better understand, promote and create new ways of thinking and working in the field of dance education for the benefit of new generations"--

Download or read book Ethical Agility in Dance written by Noyale Colin and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-13 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection examines the potential of dance training for developing socially engaged individuals capable of forging ethical human relations for an ever-changing world and in turn frames dance as a fundamental part of human experience. This volume draws together a range of critical voices to reflect the inclusive potential of dance. The contributions offer perspectives on contemporary dance training in Britain from dance educators, scholars, practitioners and artists. Through examining the politics, values and ethics of learning dance today, this book argues for the need of a re-assessment of the evolving practices in dance training and techniques. Key questions address how the concept of ‘technique’ and associated systems of training in dance could be redefined to enable the collaboration of skills and application of ideas necessary to twenty-first-century dance. The editors present these ideas in different modes of writing. This collection of essays, conversations and manifestos offers a way to explore, debate and grasp the shifting values of contemporary dance. Examining these values in the applied field of dance reveals a complex and contrasting range of ideas, encompassing broad themes including the relationships between individuality and collectivity, rigour and creativity, and virtuosity and inclusivity. This volume points to ethical techniques as providing a way of navigating these contrasting values in dance. It serves as an invaluable resource for academics as well as practitioners and students.

Download or read book INVISIBLE VISIBILITY written by PAWLET. BROOKES and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Beyond the Surface an Inclusive American Dance History written by Michelle Grant-Murray and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The aim of this book is to first engage dance academia in the core principles of what is American dance. Secondly, its objective is to empower emerging artists, students, and the general public to embrace American dance, utilizing historical evidence to pay homage to its ancient forms - forms that have shaped the foundations of American culture. Its final intent is to inspire new dance forms"--Preface, pages vii-viii.

Download or read book It s Your Move written by Peppy Hills and published by . This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you use dance with people who have a wide range of needs and many different styles of learning? Do you want to use dance to enable young people to express themselves, to participate in group activities, to increase their self-esteem and to explore ways of moving? Here are examples that will enable you to lead inclusive, motivating and enjoyable dance sessions. Whether you are dancing with people with limited movement or with high energy participants, this book provides practical dance ideas that you can use in any setting. There is valuable info. on: creative possibilities of dancing with wheelchairs; working in a nonverbal way; leading inclusive dance sessions; different ways of sharing work; developing young choreographers; and using props. Illus.