This is the first volume devoted to the topic of dance and quality of life. Thirty-one chapters illuminate dance in relation to singular and overlapping themes of nature, philosophy, spirituality, religion, life span, learning, love, family, teaching, creativity, ability, socio-cultural identity, politics and change, sex and gender, wellbeing, and more. With contributions from a multi-generational group of artists, community workers, educators, philosophers, researchers, students and health professionals, this volume presents a thoughtful, expansive-yet-focused, and nuanced discussion of dance s contribution to human life. The volume will interest dance specialists, quality of life researchers, and anyone interested in exploring dance s contribution to quality of living and being.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
FOREWORD; TBA. - PREFACE; Karen E. Bond. - INTRODUCTION; Karen E. Bond. - NATURE. - I m not an eagle, I m a chicken! Constructions of Animal-Selfing in Childhood Dance; Karen E. Bond. - How Seudati Put Me in Touch with Birds; Sally M. Gardner. - Canyon Consciousness; Sondra Fraleigh. - Dance and Meaning in the Anthropocene; Robert Bingham. - Give Life a Dance: A Bio-Cultural Manifesto; Ellen Dissanayake. - RELIGION, PHILOSOPHY. - Dancing Aliveness; Maxine Sheets-Johnstone. - Earth Bound: Revisiting Evolutionary Theories on Dance and Religion; Kimerer L. LaMothe. - Dance, Christianity and Quality of Life; Jessica Van Oort. - Decision Making/Choice/Power/Responsibility: A Choreographic Perspective; Simon K. Ellis. - Drawing and Dancing: Exbodying the Unknowable; Molly Shanahan. - Beauty in Disability: An Aesthetics for Dance and Quality of Life; Aili Bresnahan. - DANCING THE LIFE SPAN. - Dance and Quality in Young Children's Lives: A Perspective from Aotearoa; Adrienne Sansom. - Daddy, root me in! Aesthetic Community Building in a Male, Inter-generational, Child-Centered, Dance Education Project; Byron Richard. - Fathers and sons: Dancing Encouters-Stories of Love and Longing; Isto Turpeinen. - Teenage Dancers' Perceptions of Identity in Three Community Engagement Settings; Miriam Giguere. - Stories from a Dancing Life; Teresa Benzwie. - 60+ Shades of Grey: Acculturation, Ambiguity and Dancing Elders in Northern Australia; Nicholas Rowe, David McMicken and Tim Newth. - LEARNING, TEACHING. - Dance, Embodied Learning and Quality of Life in Nordic Schools; Eeva Anttila and Charlotte Svendler Nielsen. - Making Meaning Through Somatic Dance Education: An Interactive Cognitive Subsystems (ICS) Perspective; Janet Rebecca Weber. - Teaching Dance in Higher Education: Valuing the Highs and the Lows; Alba Pedreira Vieira. - Dance Teacher Education: Turning to Creativity. - ABILITY, HEALTH, WELL-BEING. - Dance and Quality of Life in Indigenous Cultures in Australasia; Kim Dunphy and Vicki Ware. - Dance in Community Health Nursing for Women with Post-Partum Depression; Uzo Nwankpa. - Assessing Quality of Life in Community Dancers with Parkinson's. - Life-Changing Meetings in Disability-Inclusive Dance; Tone Pernille Østern, Philip Channells and Tone Pernille and Elen Østern. - Dance Economies of Difference; TBA. - IDENTITY, rESTORATION, TRANSFORMATION. - Brothers of the 'Bah Yah': Perceptions of Maleness in the Umfundalai Tradition of African Dance; C. Kemal Nance. - West African Dance: Restoring the Transmission of Cultural Knowledge in the United States; Ojeya Cruz Banks and Adama Jewel. - Dance and Human Dignity in Post-Apartheid South Africa; Marelize Marx. - Smart Phones: A Ghanaian Village and Traditional Dance; Kariamu Welsh. - Finding your Feet: Hip Hop Dance Participation amongst Migrant and Refugee Youth Arriving to Live in Australia; Jacinda Richards and Sally Gardner. - Dancing it Out: Building Positive Peace.
