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Dance as Education Towards a National Dance Culture The RoutledgeFalmer Library on Aesthetic Education Series Editor: Dr Peter Abbs, University of Sussex, UK Setting the Frame LIVING POWERS: The Arts in Education Edited by Peter Abbs A IS FOR AESTHETIC: Essays on Creative and Aesthetic Education Peter Abbs THE SYMBOLIC ORDER: A Contemporary Reader on the Arts Debate Edited by Peter Abbs THE RATIONALITY OF FEELING: Understanding the Arts in Education David Best The Individual Studies FILM AND TELEVISION IN EDUCATION: An Aesthetic Approach to the Moving Image Robert Watson LITERATURE AND EDUCATION: Encounter and Experience Edwin Webb DANCE AS EDUCATION: Towards a National Dance Culture Peter Brinson THE VISUAL ARTS IN EDUCATION Rod Taylor MUSIC EDUCATION IN THEORY AND PRACTICE Charles Plummeridge THE ARTS IN THE PRIMARY SCHOOL Glennis Andrews and Rod Taylor EDUCATION IN DRAMA: iii Casting the Dramatic Curriculum David Hornbrook Work of Reference KEY CONCEPTS: A Guide to Aesthetics, Criticism and the Arts in Education Trevor Pateman Dance as Education Towards a National Dance Culture Peter Brinson UK RoutledgeFalmer, 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE USA RoutledgeFalmer, Taylor & Francis Inc., 325 Chestnut Street, 8th Floor, Philadelphia PA 19106 © Peter Brinson1991 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without permission in writing from the Publisher. First published 1991 by The Falmer Press This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk.” Routledge Falmer is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Brinson, Peter Dance as education: towards a national dance culture. (Falmer Press library on aesthetic education). 1. Great Britain. Education. Curriculum subjects: Dance I. Title 792.807041 ISBN 0-203-63992-8 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-203-67764-1 (Adobe eReader Format) ISBN 1-85000-716-0 (Print Edition) ISBN 1-85000-717-9 pbk Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data available on request Jacket design by Benedict Evans Contents List of Illustrations ix Series Editor’s Preface x Introduction xiv Part 1: In the Theatre Chapter 1 Is There a British Dance Culture? 2 Today’s Theatre Dance The Modernist Impact Post-Modernist Lessons Chapter 2 Whose Post-Modernism in Britain? 24 The Contemporary Response The Classical Response Part 2: Outside the Theatre Chapter 3 Education for What? 53 Understanding through History Dance and Physical Education Dance as Education Dance Creativity Some Conclusions Chapter 4 What Can Dance Do For Higher Education 86 and Vice Versa? Partnership vii Scholarly Beginnings, Classical Scholarly Beginnings, Educational Today’s Situation Chapter 5 Whose Arts, Whose Community? 106 Principles and Some Practice Practical Applications The Context of Community Dance and Mime Developing Community Dance and Mime Chapter 6 Whose National Dance Culture? 138 Part 3: Aspects of Dance Culture Introduction 161 Appendices A Dance in the School Curriculum 162 B Academic Research 174 C Images of Community Dance 176 D Arts Education for a Multi-Cultural Society 181 E Forward with Youth Dance! 185 F Dance, Disability, Ageing 192 G The European Connection 199 List of Organizations 208 Bibliography 219 Index 226 Dedicated to the Unity of British Dance Culture— all of it List of Illustrations Six Views of National Dance Culture Plate 1: Other ways to dance. Julyen Hamilton in Friday. 33 Photograph by Andre Hoekzema. Plate 2: Other ways to dance. Ursula Hageli with Richard 44 Slaughter (in the background) of Ballet Creations introduce classical partnering to students at a Manchester School through their schools programme. Photograph by Paul Herrmann. Plate 3: Other ways to dance. The dancer Misoshi teaching 70 Ghanian dance to Cheshire school students in November 1989 as part of the Arts Education in a Multi-cultural Society Project. Photograph by Nick Young. Plate 4: Other ways to dance. Members of the Laban Centre’s 102 student company, Transitions, in David Dorfman’s Torched. The company tours other colleges and centres as part of its Advanced Performance Course. Photograph by Toni Nandi. Plate 5: Other ways to dance. Members of the Amici Integrated 110 Dance Company in Nigel Warrack’s Mercurius at the Tramway Theatre, Glasgow, May 1990. The company mingles able-bodied and disabled dancers. Photograph by Ian Wesley. Plate 6: Other ways to dance. From left to right: Sally Davies, 180 James Thomas, Fergus Early and Lati, in Green Candle’s community dance work, Songs for the Beast. Photograph by Teresa Watkins.
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