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This book is about dance and movement involving visually impaired and sighted participants, about social and cultural exclusion facilitated by touch based methods. Case studies and vignettes provide thick descriptions of the practice Contact Improvisation and reveal how lives change, how sociocultural inclusion is imperative. 35 b/w illus.

Table of Contents:

• Intro
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Figures
• Abbreviations
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• An ethno-historical overview of the origins of Touchdown Dance: A radical initiative in a radical climate
• Part 1. Taking a stand for inclusivity in an exclusive society
• Part 2. The body as the locus of liberation
• Part 3. Bringing CI and Touchdown Dance to Denmark
• 1. Returning to the Origins:The Journey Taken by the Founders
• Part 1. A chance encounter
• Where it all started
• The first years of Touchdown Dance 1986-88
• Finding a common way of seeing using CI
• Bringing visually impaired and sighted people together through CI
• The first encounter

• A mini revolution
• Part 2. Touchdown Dance (1988-94), Breaking new ground, new discourses, new science, new praxis: Re-inhabiting the body brought into question the perception of the visible and invisible
• Part 3. Finding my place
• 2. Methodology: Undertaking Research That Is Practice-Led
• Contact Improvisation
• Sowing the seeds of self-determination through touch and movement
• CI
• A practice-led approach to learning
• Part 1. CI
• The inter-relationship of pedagogy and practice-led research
• The advent of an integrated and inclusive approach
• Part 2. The foundational principles in practice
• Vignette 1: An integrated exchange and inter-corporeal event
• The three reciprocal membranes
• Vignette 2: Touch
• On the gap between physical and verbal language
• The motile membrane between states of consciousness
• Part 3. The role of discursive, ethnographic methods
• 3. Touch Communication: The Reciprocal Membrane of Inclusion
• Part 1. Touching the skin is touching the membrane of the inner body
• Part 2. In search of a natural attitude towards touch
• 4. The Pedagogic Process in Practice
• Working with movement
• A path towards change
• CI
• A sphere for cultural motility and mutability
• The transitional state
• New ways of seeing, moving and being
• Part 2. The different modality-specific methods
• Modality 1: The lower six inches
• Modality 2: Rolling
• Modality 3: Back-to-back sitting
• Modality 4: Stand on 'all fours'
• The low 'bridge' or 'table'
• Modality 5: Lifts
• Pathways into space and back to the floor
• 5. Workshops: Our Partnerships and Projects Since 1994
• Children
• Youth work
• How would you rate your movement skills before and after the workshop?
• Adults
• 6. Performance and Creative Process
• Sixth Sense
• Second Sight: Practice-based research
• In performance
• Productions post 1994
• I-radiate
• 1999-2000
• SENSE-8 2000-01
• TACT 2002-03
• CLOSER. Created 2005-08 reworked as APPARENTLY NORMAL 2010-12
• Follow the frame
• 343 m/s
• The speed of sound
• 343 m/s Lisbon
• 7. Final Words
• The paradigm shift
• Towards the individual and collective
• Embracing the membrane of inclusion

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Author/Creator:

Dymoke, Katy , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Inclusive dance: the story of touchdown dance [by Dymoke, K.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Inclusive Dance [by Dymoke, K.] (Bristol : Intellect Books,c2023 — ISBN 9781789388367)

Subjects:

Dance companies — United States — History — 20th century

People with visual disabilities and the arts — United States — History — 20th century

Improvisation in dance — United States — History — 20th century

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Call Numbers:

GV1799.2 .D96 2023eb

ISBNs:

9781789388381 (electronic book)
1789388384 (electronic book)

OCLC Numbers:

1390562698

Other Control Numbers:

EBC7262382 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp305574291