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Inclusive dance : the story of Touchdown Dance
- Title
- Inclusive dance : the story of Touchdown Dance / Katy Dymoke.
- Author
- Dymoke, Katy
- Publication
- Bristol, UK ; Chicago, IL : Intellect, 2023.
- ©2023
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Details
- Description
- xxvi, 355 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- Personal accounts of the work of Touchdown Dance and inclusivity in dance performance projects. Inclusive Dance offers a concise ethnography of disability arts and a historiographic overview of the field in the 1980s when many new disability arts groups emerged in the UK. It focuses in particular on the inclusive teaching modalities of Touchdown Dance, which was the work of dancer Steve Paxton and theater-maker and psychotherapist Anne Kilcoyne. It involved visually impaired and sighted adults in a dyadic movement form called Contact Improvisation. Katy Dymoke took over Touchdown Dance in 1994, and this book draws on archives, participant accounts, and personal experience to detail the work of Touchdown Dance and its effects on its participants since its founding. Three guests from Touchdown Dance contribute eyewitness accounts of the methods and performance projects.
- Subject
- Touchdown Dance (Company)
- 1900-1999
- People with visual disabilities and the arts > Great Britain > History > 20th century
- Dance companies > Great Britain > History > 20th century
- Improvisation in dance > Great Britain > History > 20th century
- Touch > Therapeutic use
- Dance companies
- Improvisation in dance
- People with visual disabilities and the arts
- Touch
- Great Britain
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-355).
- Contents
- 1. Returning to the origins: the journey taken by the founders -- 2. Methodology: undertaking research that is practice-led -- 3. Touch communication: the reciprocal membrane of inclusion -- 4. The pedagogic process in practice -- 5. Workshops: our partnerships and projects since 1994 -- 6. Performance and creative process -- 7. Final words -- 8. Three Touchdown Dance artists' points of view.
- Call Number
- *MGRT 23-3511
- ISBN
- 9781789388695
- 1789388694
- 9781789388367
- 1789388368
- 9781789388381 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781789388374 (canceled/invalid)
- OCLC
- 1388636925
- Author
- Dymoke, Katy, author.
- Title
- Inclusive dance : the story of Touchdown Dance / Katy Dymoke.
- Publisher
- Bristol, UK ; Chicago, IL : Intellect, 2023.
- Copyright Date
- ©2023
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-355).
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Research Call Number
- *MGRT 23-3511