Making an Entrance: Dancing Out the Message Behind Inclusive Practice
- Author: Benjamin, Adam
Making an Entrance: Dancing Out the Message Behind Inclusive Practice
- Author: Benjamin, Adam
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This second edition of Making an Entrance is a practical and thought-provoking introduction to teaching dance with disabled and non-disabled students, updated with expanded coverage, new and revised exercises, and chapters that cover post-pandemic and online practice, diversity and inclusivity.
With improvisation as his central concern Benjamin covers an extensive range of topics, including new autoethnographic writing, mental health, performance, feedback, and The Dancers’ Forest, and interrogates what we mean when we talk about ‘inclusive’ and ‘integrated dance.’ There are over 50 stimulating and challenging exercises purposefully designed for dance students of all levels accompanied by teaching notes, and examples drawn from the author’s experience as a teacher, performer, and dance maker. Useful hints are provided on the practicalities of setting up workshops covering issues such as class sizes, the safety aspects of wheelchairs and accessibility.
An essential read for both students and teachers of improvisation who are seeking ways to engage with issues of diversity, written to be accessible whilst offering areas of increasing complexity and challenge for more experienced practitioners.
Contents
- Part 1 : Thoughts
- 1. Finding It When You Get There
- 2. Improv, Access and Training
- 3. Just Movement - Ethical Considerations
- 4. An Evolution in Practice
- 5. The Dancers' Forest
- 6. I'd Rather be Snow - on Language, Impairment, Integration and Inclusivity
- 7. The Simpson Board and Lisa's Journey
- 8. The Great Mistake - Response-ability, Grace and Clues to Practice
- 9. Tension Seekers - a Poet/Hunter's Guide to Improvisation
- 10. Demons and Dragons - On Feeling Artistically Blocked
- 11. Life on the Edge - Dance and Mental Health
- 12. Is it Therapy?
- Part 2 : Practice
- 13. An Unruly Location
- 14. an introduction to the Improvisations
- 15. The Opening Circle
- 16. Getting Started
- 17. Listening Through Touch
- 18. Making an Entrance in Time and Space
- 19. Space, Time, Resting and Centre
- 20. A to B Scores
- 21. Talking Heads - Finding Voice in Dance Improvisation
- 22. Speed and Timing
- 23. Weight Sharing
- 24. Counterbalances and Chair Tilts: Dicing with Newtonian Physics
- 25. Frames, Eyes, Escaping the Screen
- 26. Live Music
- 27. Art and Dance
- 28. Improvisation, Choreography, Performance
- Part 3 : Outside (the box)
- 29. Building Connections
- 30. Excerpts from an African Diary
- 31. The Fool's Journey and Poisonous Mushrooms
