Ethical Agility in Dance : : Rethinking Technique in British Contemporary Dance.

• Superior document: Routledge Advances in Theatre and Performance Studies
• Author: Colin, Noyale.
• TeilnehmendeR: Seago, Catherine.; Stamp, Kathryn.
• Place / Publishing House: Milton : : Taylor & Francis Group,, 2023.; ©2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre and Performance Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (351 pages)

This edited collection examines the potential of dance training for developing socially engaged individuals capable to forge ethical human relations for an ever-changing world and in turn frames dance as a fundamental part of human experience.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- About the Editors -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: Ethical Agility in British Contemporary Dance Technique -- Part I: Concepts -- 1.1 New Imaginaries: Dance Training, Ethics, and Practice -- 1.2 Contemporary Dance in Postcolonial Britain: Charting Shifts in 'Techniques' -- 1.3 Democratising Dance: Inclusion at the Core of Dance Education and its Impact -- 1.4 Finding a Place for Responsiveness, Possibility, and Emergence in Dance Education Assessment Systems -- 1.5 Facilitating Individual Agency in British Contemporary Dance Technique Training: A Praxical Pedagogical Approach -- Part II: Practices -- 2.1 Material Matters -- 2.2 Questioning Values in the Delivery of Dance Practices at the University of East London -- 2.3 Fostering Attentional Awareness for Connectedness, with Agility and Empathy as Core Values -- 2.4 Steps Towards Decolonising Contact Improvisation in the University -- 2.5 Digital Tools in Formal and Informal Dance Education Environments -- 2.6 Staying Alive: The Dance Technique class as a Means for Survival -- Part III: Conversations -- 3.1 Thinking Together about the Ethics of Training -- 3.2 'Movement is not Something you do, but Something you Are': Balancing the Development of Technical Skills with Attentional Practices in Dance Training -- 3.3 Being Faithful to the Complexity of the Creative Dancing Body -- 3.4 'Choosing a Lens of Values': Dance Training as Relational Practice -- 3.5 Improvisation: Inclusivity and Race -- 3.6 'There is no Line': Valuing Individual Potential through Inclusive and Collaborative Dance Technique -- 3.7 Developing Bespoke inclusive Technique for Mainstream Dance Training.

3.8 Participating in Worlds of our own Making: Inclusive Training in Community Dance Practice -- 3.9 Technique as a Way of Building an Ecology of Practice -- 3.10 In the Fullness of Ourselves: Some skills and Intentions of Improvisation -- Part IV: Manifestos -- 4.1 'As Technique' -- 4.2 The way of the Wild Soul: A Map for Embodied and Nature-based Spirituality -- 4.3 Simply for the Doing: A Manifesto for the Work of a Dance Class -- 4.4 Breaking the Mould: A Manifesto for a Future-facing, Accessible Dance Course -- 4.5 Manifesto for Inclusion -- 4.6 The Value of 'South Asian' Dance Technique to 'Contemporary' Dance Training -- 4.7 Towards Decoloniality and Artistic Citizenship: A Manifesto -- 4.8 The World needs more Dancers. Consciousness can and should be Trained through the Practice of Dance -- 4.9 A Chorus of Dancing Voices Curated by Katye Coe -- Index.