Dance and the Quality of Life

Front Matter ....Pages i-xix
 Introduction: At Last, Together  (Karen Bond)....Pages 1-20
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 Canyon Consciousness  (Sondra Fraleigh)....Pages 23-44
 Dancing the Landscape  (Don Asker)....Pages 45-65
 In the Shadow of Crisis: Dance and Meaning in the Anthropocene  (Robert Bingham)....Pages 67-80
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 Dance as a Taonga from Children to the World: A Perspective from Aotearoa New Zealand  (Adrienne Sansom)....Pages 83-100
 West African Dance and Spiritual Well-Being for African Americans  (Ojeya Cruz Banks, Jeanette “Adama Jewel” Jackson)....Pages 101-115
 Dancing on Earth: The Healing Dance of Kalahari Bushmen and the Native American Ghost Dance Religion  (Kimerer L. LaMothe)....Pages 117-133
 The Spirit Moves: Christian Trance Dance in Late Medieval Europe and Early Nineteenth-Century America  (Jessica Van Oort)....Pages 135-151
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 How Seudati Put Me in Touch with Birds  (Sally Gardner)....Pages 155-165
 Pause. Listen.: Visibility and Freedom in Choreographic Practice  (Simon Ellis)....Pages 167-183
 Beauty in Disability: An Aesthetics for Dance and for Life  (Aili Bresnahan, Michael Deckard)....Pages 185-203
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 “Just Me and Daddy”  (Byron Richard)....Pages 207-225
 Fathers, Sons and Encounters in Dance  (Isto Turpeinen, Ralph Buck)....Pages 227-243
 Friction: Male Identity and Representation in Umfundalai  (C. Kemal Nance)....Pages 245-260
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 The Impact of Community Engagement Through Dance on Teen and Young Adult Dancers  (Miriam Giguere)....Pages 263-280
 Understanding Quality of Life Through the Experiences of Dancers with Parkinson’s  (Sara Houston, Ashley McGill)....Pages 281-291
 Dance and Well-Being: Honoring Caroline Plummer  (Uzoamaka Nwankpa, Stephanie Bevill)....Pages 293-306
 Somatic Movement Dance Education: A Feminist, Cognitive, Phenomenological Perspective on Creativity in Dance  (Rebecca Weber)....Pages 307-324
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 Dance and the Quality of Life at Schools: A Nordic Affiliation  (Eeva Anttila, Charlotte Svendler Nielsen)....Pages 327-345
 Discovering Freedom in Dance Education  (Monica Jordan Cameron Frichtel)....Pages 347-364
 University Dance Students in Taiwan Step Out of Their “Bubble” of Elite Dance Training  (Yi-jung Wu)....Pages 365-382
 “A Little Kind of Community”: South African Students Dance for Self, Other and Society  (Marelize Marx)....Pages 383-400
 Quality of Working Life for Higher Education Dance Educators: Embodiment, Complexity, Transformation  (Alba Pedreira Vieira)....Pages 401-421
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 Women Span Personal to Political in an Israeli Belly Dance Setting  (Ephrat Huss, Karen Bond)....Pages 425-439
 Life-Changing Life Journeys Through Artistic and Educational Inclusive Contemporary Dance Contexts  (Tone Pernille Østern, Elen Øyen, Philip Channells)....Pages 441-457
 Young People’s Experiences in Hip Hop Dance Participation  (Jacinda Richards, Sally Gardner)....Pages 459-474
 Dancing it Out: Building Positive Peace  (Erica Rose Jeffrey, Lesley J. Pruitt)....Pages 475-493
 Dance and Quality of Life for Indigenous Communities in Australia  (Kim Dunphy, Vicki-Ann Ware)....Pages 495-512
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 Memoir of a Dancing Life  (Teresa Benzwie)....Pages 515-525
 Dancing in the Setting Sun: Performance, Self-Actualization and the Elderly  (Nicholas Rowe, David McMicken, Tim Newth)....Pages 527-544
 Babies and Dance: Questions of Origin  (Karen Bond, Kirsten Kaschock)....Pages 545-548
Back Matter ....Pages 549-570