Full Description
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
Contents
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Introduction
Part I Inclusive dance pedagogy
Chapters
1.1 Making no difference: Inclusive dance pedagogy
1.2 Developing inclusive dance pedagogy: Dialogue, activism and aesthetic transformative learning
Case narratives
1.3 Beyond technique: Diversity in dance as a transformative practice
1.4 Exploring the relationship between dance and disability: A personal journey
1.5 'Sowing Dance' body movement for children from six months to three years old: The experience in Mesquita, Brazil
1.6 Dance for children with dyspraxia: The impact of Royal Academy of Dance, London, projects
Part II Equality, advocacy and policy
Chapters
2.1 Values and principles shaping community dance
2.2 The ugly duckling: Stories of dance and disability from Denmark and South Africa
2.3 Dance, education and participation: The 'Planters' project in Girona, Spain
Case narratives
2.4 Building identity through dance: Exploring the influence of dance for individuals with special needs
2.5 Encountering and embodying difference through dance: Reflections on a research project in a primary school in Finland
2.6 New spaces for creativity and action: Recent developments in the Applied Performing Arts in Catalonia
Part III Changing practice for dance education
Chapters
3.1 Supporting change: The identification and development of talented young dancers with disabilities
3.2 Reflections from a/r/tography: Perspectives to review creative activities with special needs children
3.3 Learning in action: Intersecting approaches to teaching dance in Timor-Leste and Australia
Case narratives
3.4 Exploring disability and dance: A Papua New Guinean experience
3.5 ASEAN Para Games 2015: Dancing for inclusivity
3.6 Dancing partners/ dancing peers: A wheelchair dance collaborative
Part IV Community dance initiatives
Chapters
4.1 Dance and affect: Re-connecting minds to bodies of young adult survivors of violence, India
4.2 Digital stories: Three young people's experience in a community dance class
4.3 Community initiatives for special needs dancers: An evolving ecology in Singapore
Case narratives
4.4 Celebrating diversity: A Jamaican story
4.5 "I Can... ": A Cambodian inclusive arts project
4.6 Learning together through dance: Making cultural connections in Indonesia
4.7 From the ground up: A Portuguese dance education collaboration with regional communities
Part V Professional integrated collaborations
Chapters
5.1 Pulling back from being together: An ethnographic consideration of dance, digital technology and Hikikomori in Japan and the UK
5.2 Freefalling with ballet
5.3 Troubling access and inclusion: A phenomenological study of children's learning opportunities in artistic-educational encounters with a professional contemporary dance production
Case narratives
5.4 Dancing in wheelchairs: A Malaysian story
5.5 'Twilight': Connection to place through an intergenerational multi-site dance project
5.6 Navi's story: Access to collective identity through intercultural dance in the Fiji Islands
5.7 The value of an extended dance residency: Restless Dance Theatre in a South Australian school 2014-2015
