Inclusive Dance: The Story of Touchdown Dance
- Author: Dymoke, Katy
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$56.00Contents
- 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
- - Part 1. Introduction
- - 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
- - Introduction
- - Holly Thomas – Dancer and facilitator
- - Sharing practice
- - Performance work
- - Robert Anderson – Dancer and facilitator
- - Jamus Wood – Dancer and facilitator
- Afterword – Steve Paxton
- Appendix 1. The Small Dance 329
- Appendix 2. The ‘Hatching Chick’ – And the ‘birth’ of the Membrane Concept
- Timeline
- Notes
- Bibliography