Inclusive dance : the story of touchdown dance / Katy Dymoke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dymoke, Katy, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Improvisation in dance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (322 pages)

Place of Publication:

Bristol, England : Intellect Ltd, [2023]

Summary:

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.

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

The research accomplishments and the return of non-touch

Capturing the experience - The multiple membranes

8. Three Touchdown Dance Artists' Points of View

Holly Thomas - Dancer and facilitator

Sharing practice

Performance work

Robert Anderson - Dancer and facilitator

Jamus Wood - Dancer and facilitator

Afterword

Appendix 1 The Small Dance

Appendix 2 The 'Hatching Chick' - And the 'birth' of the Membrane Concept

Timeline

Notes

Bibliography

Back Cover.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Print version: Dymoke, Katy Inclusive Dance

ISBN:

9781789388381

1789388384