Overview
- The first volume devoted to dance and quality of life
- Offers comprehensive multi-generational perspectives on quality of life as related to dance
- Presents a thoughtful, expansive-yet-focused, and nuanced discussion of dance's contribution to human life
- Illuminates dance in relation to nature, philosophy, religion, life span, learning, love, teaching, creativity, ability, socio-cultural identity, politics and change, sex and gender, wellbeing, and more
Part of the book series: Social Indicators Research Series (SINS, volume 73)
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This is the first volume devoted to the topic of dance and quality of life. Thirty-one chapters illuminate dance in relation to singular and overlapping themes of nature, philosophy, spirituality, religion, life span, learning, love, family, teaching, creativity, ability, socio-cultural identity, politics and change, sex and gender, wellbeing, and more. With contributions from a multi-generational group of artists, community workers, educators, philosophers, researchers, students and health professionals, this volume presents a thoughtful, expansive-yet-focused, and nuanced discussion of dance’s contribution to human life. The volume will interest dance specialists, quality of life researchers, and anyone interested in exploring dance’s contribution to quality of living and being.
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Keywords
- Dance and Quality of Life
- Dance and Well-Being
- Arts in Human Development
- Drawing and Childhood Dance
- Intrinsic Dance and Quality of Moving
- Dance and Meaning in the Anthropocene
- Role of Dancing in Human Life
- Evolutionary Theories on Dance and Religion
- Dancing the Life Span
- Dance Education for Men
- Teenage Dancer's Perceptions of Identity
- Dancing Elders in Northern Australia
- Dance and Quality of Life in Schools
- Dance and Freedom for University Students
- Interactive Cognitive Subsystems (ICS)
- Teaching Dance in Dance in Higher Education
- Dancing with Post-Partum Depression
- Quality of Life of Dancers with Parkinson
- Life-Changing and Disability-Inclusive Dance
Table of contents (31 chapters)
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Dancing Ecology, Sustaining Earth
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Spirituality
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Philosophical Perspectives
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Dancing Gender, Dancing Family
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Health, Wellbeing, Ability
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Dr. Karen Bond is Chair of the Temple University Department of Dance, Philadelphia, USA. She was formerly Senior Lecturer and Coordinator of Dance Education and Research at the University of Melbourne, Australia, where she developed several of Australia’s first Master’s level courses in dance. She was a founding member of Al Wunder’s Theatre of the Ordinary, Australia's first improvisational performance company, and of Adzohu, a West African music and dance ensemble based at La Trobe University, Melbourne. She is known for her research into experiences and meanings of dance for participants from a range of populations and settings encompassing education, community arts, performance and therapy. Dr. Bond is widely published in books, journals and conference publications, and has presented papers, courses, and workshops in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Jamaica, Japan, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Saipan, Singapore, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and the USA. In 2013, she wasthe inaugural recipient of the Outstanding Dance Education Researcher Award from the National Dance Education Organization (NDEO).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Dance and the Quality of Life
Editors: Karen Bond
Series Title: Social Indicators Research Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95699-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-95698-5Published: 13 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-95699-2Published: 05 March 2019
Series ISSN: 1387-6570
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0099
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 570
Number of Illustrations: 52 b/w illustrations
Topics: Quality of Life Research, Dance, Aesthetics, Creativity and Arts Education