A Detailed Analysis of DanceAbility's Contribution to Mixed-Abilities Dance

Autor:	Amanda Herman, Steven J. Chatfield
Rok vydání:	2010
Předmět:	Visual Arts and Performing Arts Dance Training course media_common.quotation_subject Certification Choreography (dance) Teacher education Education Diverse population Dance education Mathematics education Ideology Psychology media_common
Zdroj:	Journal of Dance Education. 10:41-55
ISSN:	2158-074X 1529-0824
DOI:	10.1080/15290824.2010.10387159
Popis:	In the 1960s a visible shift in the ideology of contemporary dancers and choreographers took place. A desire for a dance language that rejected the need for the classical dancerly body paved the way for dance that was open to a more diverse population of participants. DanceAbility emerged in that late 1980s as a method of making dance accessible to all people. Between 1996 and 2008 the annual teacher training course produced 265 teachers certified in the DanceAbility method. This study sought to assess the involvement of certified DanceAbility teachers in the field of mixed-abilities dance. Demographic and other relative information pertaining to the teaching and choreography of certified DanceAbility teachers was obtained and analyzed. All certified teachers with contact information available (N = 207) were sent a selfreport questionnaire. The 61 Certified DanceAbility Teachers who returned completed questionnaires were from 17 countries. Europeans were the largest percentage of respondents (46%...
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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