Dancing Across Borders: Perspectives on Dance, Young People and Change

Contents

• List of contributors
• Foreword by Sir Ken Robinson
• Acknowledgements
• PART 1 - Collaborations across arts practice and academia
• 1 Dancing past categories: Researching a live art project with participants (UK) (Pat Thomson and Emily Pringle)
• 2 'It's all about art!' Crossing borders of academia and arts practice in an arts-integrated educational project in South Africa (South Africa) (Charlotte Svendler Nielsen, Gerard M. Samuel, Peter Vadim, Fabian Hartzenberg, and Liesl Hartman)
• 3 Softening the borders of codification (Singapore) (Susan Sentler)
• 4 A step offstage to restage: Remembering Swan Lake (USA) (Ravenna Tucker Wagnon)
• 5 Shapeshifting collaborative paradigms across borders, within tertiary choreographic education (New Zealand) (Sarah Knox)
• PART 2 - Difference and diversity - community initiatives
• 6 Fostering intercultural competence and social justice through dance and physical education: Finnish PE student teachers' experiences and reflections (Finland) (Mariana Siljamaki and Eeva Anttila)
• 7 Sustaining dance practices in turbulent times: Dance, displacement, identity and the Syrian Civil War (Syria and Germany) (Rose Martin)
• 8 Children's dance across borders during the Festival of the Children of Mountains in Nowy Sacz (Poland) (Monika Kurzeja)
• 9 Unlocking joy in the body: Creative movement with Yazidi refugees in Northern Iraq (Iraq) (Lydia J. Mathis)
• 10 Who sets the limits for us?- dance for equal movement rights in Estonia (Estonia) (Anu Soeoet and Raido Magi)
• PART 3 - Intercultural collaborations in dance education
• 11 Women of consequence (WOC) - ambitious, ancillary and anonymous: A cross-border arts-based research project between South Africa and USA (USA and South Africa) (Lynette Young Overby, Lisa Wilson and Dianna Ruberto)
• 12 Brazil and Denmark dance encounters: A case study of intercultural artistic coexistences in higher educational contexts. (Brazil and Denmark) (Deborah Dodd Macedo)
• 13 Dancing across the wall(s) of exclusion: reflections of two dance teachers on overcoming barriers to difference in dance education (USA and Uganda) (Alfdaniels Mabingo and Susan Koff)
• 14 Sum of our ancestors: we are connected to spirit and to Country - we are the sum of our ancestors? (Australia) (Jo Clancy)
• 15 Disrupting the 'foreign' and the 'indigenous': teaching dance as an investigative practice in the contemporary Indian context (India) (Meghna Bhardwaj)
• 16 Crossing Borders by teaching dance around the world (International) (Laura Kool)
• PART 4 - Integrated arts
• 17 The significance of an interdisciplinary arts pedagogical approach for dance teaching artists on dance education in Singapore (Singapore) (Kie Watkins and Stephanie Burridge)
• 18 Artistic process as a frame for collaborative, embodied pedagogies: combining dance with language learning (Finland) (Hanna M. Nikkanen, Katja Kirsi and Eeva Anttila)
• 19 Breaking the fourth wall: Getting closer to the audience through participatory experience of dance. (Hong Kong) (Anna C.Y. Chan)
• 20 Learning through an artistic experience: Connecting dance and fine art in the project 'Movement and its trace' (Slovenia) (Vesna Gersak and Ursula Podobnik)
• PART 5 - Collaborations across subjects and educational sectors
• 21 The role of movement, dynamics and expression in children's drawings of dancing (Australia) (Susan Wright and Jan Deans)
• 22 Reaching back to move forward: performing the archive as interdisciplinary artistic-educational process (South Africa) (Alan Parker and Gerard M. Samuel)
• 23 Magic in movements! The art of teaching creative dance through the cultural schoolbag (Norway) (Kristine Hoeg Karlsen, Gunhild Braenne Bjornstad and Heidi Remberg Hoeg)
• 24 Dance in nursing education: Somatic awareness, improvisation and embodied leadership (Denmark) (Helle Winther)
• 25 Moving onto, into and between the boxes: Surfaces and volumes as the triggers for children's movement (Indonesia) (Paramita Atmodiwirjo and Yandi Andri Yatmo)
• Index