Making an Entrance: Dancing Out the Message Behind Inclusive Practice

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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

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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.

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