- 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
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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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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 was the inaugural recipient of the Outstanding Dance Education Researcher Award from the National Dance Education Organization (NDEO).
- Table of contents (31 chapters)
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Introduction: At Last, Together
Pages 1-20
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Canyon Consciousness
Pages 23-44
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Dancing the Landscape
Pages 45-65
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In the Shadow of Crisis: Dance and Meaning in the Anthropocene
Pages 67-80
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Dance as a Taonga from Children to the World: A Perspective from Aotearoa New Zealand
Pages 83-100
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Table of contents (31 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Dance and the Quality of Life
- Editors
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- Karen E. Bond
- Series Title
- Social Indicators Research Series
- Series Volume
- 73
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-95699-2
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-95699-2
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-95698-5
- Series ISSN
- 1387-6570
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIX, 570
- Number of Illustrations
- 52 b/w illustrations
- Topics
