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.