【Dance】Archives of the Dance (28): Chisenhale Dance Space
This contribution to the 'Archives of the Dance' series explores Chisenhale Dance Space's collection and my work with it as a PhD researcher. My re... [more]
【Dance】Dance matters: dancing in Tunisia
A Tunisian youth movement, Dancers Citizens South (DCS), founded on 31 May 2015, encourages young people to find agency in their communities by creati... [more]
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Refugee children and body politics. The embodied political self and dance movement therapy
This article looks at the link between social exclusion and migration, in particular for children. It highlights the impact that being a refugee may have on one's sense of self. Beyond the concept of acartesian self, our working model suggests a dialogic
Extraversion in women with fibromyalgia as a predictor of better prognosis: an intervention model in
This study examined the relationship between extraversion, the ability to identify emotions in observed movement and quality of life (QoL), among women with and without fibromyalgia (FM). The sample was 50 adult women. Participants were asked to fill out
Description and evaluation of a dance/movement therapy programme with incarcerated adolescent males
This article describes and evaluates the effectiveness of a dance/movement therapy (DMT) programme to improve self-restraint skills, a predictive factor of recidivism, of adolescent males incarcerated in Non-Secure Placements (NSP). Three adolescent males
The somatic education perspective in the curriculum of primary and secondary school: dance and power
Dance as a mandatory discipline presents tensions regarding the mismatch between dance knowledge and other hegemonic knowledge at school. This text discusses problems faced by a dance teacher during the establishment of a curriculum for the discipline of
Dance/Movement Therapy in Cross-Cultural Practice: Fostering Assertiveness with Torture Survivors
A U.S. dance/movement therapist's report on case histories of three adult African survivors of human rights abuse, this narrative addresses approaches taken to foster assertiveness following exposure to torture and trafficking. The author points to dilem
Dancing on ice: mathematics of blade tracings
The art of ice dancing offers many possibilities for mathematical modelling. In this article, we present an artistic model-eliciting activity (MEA) based on skates' blade trajectories formed by skaters' bodily movements which uses mathematical content f
ETHNOCENOLOGY, LIFE HISTORIES AND FORMATIVE COURSE: DANCE TEACHERS
This article problematizes the encounter between life histories in the context of daily living and Amazonian popular culture, whose objective was to identify the interweaving between life histories and ethnocenology in the formative path of students of Ba
The art of movement improvisation in psychotherapy. Taking dance-movement improvisation into the int
In this article the author speaks about the use of movement improvisation within the psychotherapeutic process. Starting with a description of improvisation in the art of dance, the writer arrives to underline how movement improvisation can help both the
Analysis on the effects of folk dance training on players' spatial expectation levels
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects on spatial perception and spatial anticipation levels the effects of control and study groups with 16 week training folk dancing training. Material: 120 voluntary college students with no f
EXPLORING THE ROLE OF DANCE IN ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION
The dance_space project is an exploratory workshop with the objective to facilitate improved spatial design outcomes in first year architectural design students. In architecture, certain abstract spatial concepts are difficult to teach through the medium
Grace and Grit: A Meditation on Dance Movement Therapy's Locations and Aspirations Marian Chace
This article examines the concepts of grace and grit, as they apply to the field of dance movement therapy. By understanding these concepts in the moving body, we can find inspiration for our field. As well, we can more deeply understand how these terms i
Traditional Dances as a Means of Teaching Social Skills to Elementary School Students
The aim of this study was to investigate: a. the effect of an interdisciplinary program of Greek traditional dance by the means of the teamwork method of teaching social skills to students. b. whether this effect was similar for boys and girls. The sample
Development, Execution and Acceptance of a Manualized Dance/Movement Therapy Treatment Protocol for
The use of manual-based interventions that aim to improve outcomes and that allow for replication become a research standard in recent years. Currently, the dance/movement therapy English language literature contains few if any works on specific guideline
Rites of passage - transmissibility and transformation of dance through time
This article proposes a reflection on the ways of transmitting and translating practical / aesthetic knowledge, taking as a starting point the work of Wandlung / Transformation (1978) by choreographer Susanne Linke (1944), one of the pioneers of modern Ge
Handstanding - Attentiveness and immediation as dance study procedure at Victor Miguel Municipal Bas
This article analyses a project that is articulated with practices and research that took place in Florianopolis since 2017, in public schools. With attention to the practice of improvisation in dance, the study has an appetite for Radical Pedagogies, rel