ABSTRACT
Dancing Across Borders presents formal and non-formal settings of dance education where initiatives in different countries transcend borders: cultural and national borders, subject borders, professional borders and socio-economic borders. It includes chapters featuring different theoretical perspectives on dance and cultural diversity, alongside case narratives that show these perspectives in a specific cultural setting. In this way, each section charts the processes, change and transformation in the lives of young people through dance.
Key themes include how student learning is enhanced by cultural diversity, experiential teaching and learning involving social, cross-cultural and personal dimensions. This conceptually aligns with the current UNESCO protocols that accent empathy, creativity, cooperation, collaboration alongside skills- and knowledge-based learning in an endeavour to create civic mindedness and a more harmonious world.
This volume is an invaluable resource for teachers, policy makers, artists and scholars interested in pedagogy, choreography, community dance practice, social and cultural studies, aesthetics and interdisciplinary arts. By understanding the impact of these cross-border collaborative initiatives, readers can better understand, promote and create new ways of thinking and working in the field of dance education for the benefit of new generations.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|46 pages
Collaborations across arts practice and academia
chapter 2|14 pages
‘It’s all about art!’
part 2|33 pages
Difference and diversity – community initiatives
chapter 6|12 pages
Fostering intercultural competence and social justice through dance and physical education
chapter 7|9 pages
Sustaining dance practices in turbulent times
part 3|37 pages
Intercultural collaborations in dance education
chapter 11|9 pages
Women of Consequence (WOC) – ambitious, ancillary and anonymous
chapter 12|4 pages
Brazil and Denmark dance encounters
chapter 13|10 pages
Dancing across the wall(s) of exclusion
chapter 14|4 pages
Sum of our ancestors
chapter 15|4 pages
Disrupting the ‘foreign’ and the ‘indigenous’
part 4|31 pages
Integrated arts
chapter 18|11 pages
Artistic process as a frame for collaborative, embodied pedagogies
chapter 19|5 pages
Breaking the fourth wall
part 5|37 pages
Collaborations across subjects and educational sectors