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Dance and the Quality of Life

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Editors:
  1. Karen Bond

    1. Department of Dance, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA

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  • 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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Table of contents (31 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Introduction: At Last, Together

    • Karen Bond
    Pages 1-20

  3. Dancing Ecology, Sustaining Earth

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21
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    2. Canyon Consciousness

      • Sondra Fraleigh
      Pages 23-44

    3. Dancing the Landscape

      • Don Asker
      Pages 45-65

    4. In the Shadow of Crisis: Dance and Meaning in the Anthropocene

      • Robert Bingham
      Pages 67-80

  5. Philosophical Perspectives

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 153-153
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    2. How Seudati Put Me in Touch with Birds

      • Sally Gardner
      Pages 155-165

    3. Pause. Listen.: Visibility and Freedom in Choreographic Practice

      • Simon Ellis
      Pages 167-183

    4. Beauty in Disability: An Aesthetics for Dance and for Life

      • Aili Bresnahan, Michael Deckard
      Pages 185-203

  6. Dancing Gender, Dancing Family

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 205-205
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    2. “Just Me and Daddy”

      • Byron Richard
      Pages 207-225

    3. Fathers, Sons and Encounters in Dance

      • Isto Turpeinen, Ralph Buck
      Pages 227-243

    4. Friction: Male Identity and Representation in Umfundalai

      • C. Kemal Nance
      Pages 245-260

  7. Health, Wellbeing, Ability

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 261-261
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Dance, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA

    Karen Bond

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).

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