ABSTRACT
The arts have a crucial role in empowering young people with special needs through diverse dance initiatives. Inclusive pedagogy that integrates all students in rich, equitable and just dance programmes within education frameworks is occurring alongside enabling projects by community groups and in the professional dance world where many high-profile choreographers actively seek opportunities to work across diversity to inspire creativity. Access and inclusion is increasingly the essence of projects for disenfranchised and traumatised youth who find creative expression, freedom and hope through dance. This volume foregrounds dance for young people with special needs and presents best practice scenarios in schools, communities and the professional sphere. International perspectives come from Australia, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, Denmark, Fiji, Finland, India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Norway, Papua New Guinea, Portugal, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Taiwan, Timor Leste, the UK and the USA.
Sections include:
- inclusive dance pedagogy
- equality, advocacy and policy
- changing practice for dance education
- community dance initiatives
- professional integrated collaborations
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|34 pages
Inclusive dance pedagogy
chapter 1.2|8 pages
Developing inclusive dance pedagogy
chapter 1.5|4 pages
‘Sowing Dance’ – body movement for children from six months to three years old
chapter 1.6|4 pages
Dance for children with developmental dyspraxia
part 2|38 pages
Equality, advocacy and policy
chapter 2.4|5 pages
Building identity through dance
chapter 2.5|4 pages
Encountering and embodying difference through dance
chapter 2.6|4 pages
New spaces for creativity and action
part 3|38 pages
Changing practice for dance education
chapter 3.1|10 pages
Supporting Change
chapter 3.2|8 pages
Reflections from a/r/tography
chapter 3.3|8 pages
Learning in action
part 4|44 pages
Community dance initiatives
chapter 4.1|9 pages
Dance and affect
chapter 4.7|4 pages
From the ground up
part 5|45 pages
Professional integrated collaborations