Inclusive Dance - The Story of Touchdown Dance

This book is about dance and movement involving visually impaired and sighted participants, about social and cultural exclusion facilitated by touch based methods. Case studies and vignettes provide thick descriptions of the practice Contact Improvisation and reveal how lives change, how sociocultural inclusion is imperative. 35 b/w illus.

About the author

Katy is a Body-Mind Centering ® (BMC®) teacher and practitioner and director for the UK programme. As a dance movement psychotherapist she applies BMC® in all settings and to supervision – it is the source of her own embodied dance and movement practices and provides the theoretical and praxical basis for her own writing on the ‘membrane’ concept.

Summary

This book is about dance and movement involving visually impaired and sighted participants, about social and cultural exclusion facilitated by touch based methods. Case studies and vignettes provide thick descriptions of the practice Contact Improvisation and reveal how lives change, how sociocultural inclusion is imperative. 35 b/w illus.

Product details

• Authors: Katy Dymoke, Katy (Touchdown Dance / Embody Move) Dymoke
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.08.2023
• EAN: 9781789388695
• ISBN: 978-1-78938-869-5
• Dimensions: 170 mm x 244 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 812 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Subjects: Guides > Spirituality > Esoterics; Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous; BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / General, SCIENCE / Cognitive Science, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / Modern, Mind, Body, Spirit: thought & practice, Social discrimination & inequality, Mind, body, spirit: thought and practice, Cognitive studies, Contemporary Dance, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Cognitive Science, Social discrimination and social justice, Textbook, coursework