【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]
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]
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]
The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of education programs on dance performance in youth sports dancers. Fifty-four subjects (aged 9-11 years) volunteered to participate in a 12 wk education program and were randomly assigned to three grou
I will focus on dances as performances that bring a knowledge of man and his body to the representation, which would not be visible and comprehensible without it. Dances will be conceived of as patterns in which collectively shared knowledge and collectiv
To date, there has been minimal discussion of site dance's ability to foster discourse addressing large-scale geo- and sociopolitical issues in public and civic spaces. In this article, I examine a certain site-adaptive project, Rooms (2015-16), to consi
Now contained under the rubric 'classical', several dance practices in India underwent significant 'reconstruction' in the heyday of twentieth-century anti-colonial politics reliant upon the nationalist claim of a cohesive cultural identity. Such rest
The main idea of our work is that the image of a Hero in Tuvan culture, the maadyr, is being studied in the space of the dance culture that exists on the territory of the republic. Kinetic and artistic identity, preserved in the plastics of ritual dance a
As a contribution to the field of community dance, this article explores the teacher role in a setting where elderly people are offered to take part in a dance workshop. The aim of the study is to describe the role of the teacher when offering participati
This paper explains the design, development and delivery of a curriculum-integrated dance programme across four primary schools in Auckland, New Zealand. Four teachers and their respective classes (101 children in total) were part of the programme. Each c
In synaesthesia, the stimulation of one sense or cognitive concept simultaneously and involuntarily produces a sensation in a second sense or cognitive experience. While synaesthesia has been investigated from neuroscience and psychology to social science
Dance/movement therapy (DMT) is a profession and cultural community with its own habitus, assumptions, and biases. Because of the profession's progressive and unique embodied-dance approach to psychotherapy, the lack of social critique of the inherent '
The cultural turn of the 1980s suggests re-visiting the definition of Dance Movement Therapy (DMT) for the purposes of understanding the power the language has in shaping the profession. Such re-examination of the original American Dance Therapy Associati
This article presents the description and results of a methodological proposal that was carried out with the intention of promoting learning in popular dance, from a constructivist trend and under a didactic strategy of previous organizers. A cross-sectio
This paper examines the cultural situation and special responsibility of dance movement therapy, delineating certain philosophical and cultural-theoretical interpretations of the 'corporeal turn' and 'therapeutic turn' of contemporary culture. It aims
Growing evidence suggests that dance/movement therapy is a promising approach for the management of complex medical conditions such as chronic pain. However, there is a lack of understanding about the specific factors and pathways through which dance/move
Sign languages exhibit the drive for ease of articulation found in spoken languages, particularly in fast and casual conversation, where the methods that reduce effort are shown here to be limited by the need to maintain recognizability. Participatory dan
This paper focuses on the critical review for the dance, as an official educational program in the Andalusian dance conservatories. We provide a historical review, from the 20th century, considering the pedagogical-artistic field of the dance and the offi