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Author:   Katy Dymoke (Touchdown Dance / Embody Move)
Publisher:   Intellect
Imprint:   Intellect Books
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   0.812kg
ISBN:  

9781789388695

ISBN 10:   1789388694
Pages:   380
Publication Date:   14 August 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Figures Abbreviations Preface Acknowledgements Introduction - An ethno-historical overview of the origins of Touchdown Dance: A radical initiative in a radical climate - Part 1. Taking a stand for inclusivity in an exclusive society  - Part 2. The body as the locus of liberation - Part 3. Bringing CI and Touchdown Dance to Denmark 1. Returning to the Origins: The Journey Taken by the Founders - Part 1. A chance encounter – Where it all started - The first years of Touchdown Dance 1986–88 – Finding a common way of seeing using CI - Bringing visually impaired and sighted people together through CI - The first encounter – A mini revolution - Part 2. Touchdown Dance (1988–94), Breaking new ground, new discourses, new science, new praxis: Re-inhabiting the body brought into question the perception of the visible and invisible - Part 3. Finding my place 2. Methodology: Undertaking Research That Is Practice-Led - Contact Improvisation – Sowing the seeds of self-determination through touch and movement - CI – A practice-led approach to learning - Part 1. CI – The inter-relationship of pedagogy and practice-led research – The advent of an integrated and inclusive approach - Part 2. The foundational principles in practice  - Vignette 1: An integrated exchange and inter-corporeal event – The three reciprocal membranes - Vignette 2: Touch – On the gap between physical and verbal language – The motile membrane between states of consciousness - Part 3. The role of discursive, ethnographic methods 3. Touch Communication: The Reciprocal Membrane of Inclusion - Part 1. Touching the skin is touching the membrane of the inner body - Part 2. In search of a natural attitude towards touch 4. The Pedagogic Process in Practice - Part 1. Introduction - Working with movement – A path towards change - CI – A sphere for cultural motility and mutability - The transitional state – New ways of seeing, moving and being - Part 2. The different modality-specific methods - Modality 1: The lower six inches - Modality 2: Rolling - Modality 3: Back-to-back sitting - Modality 4: Stand on ‘all fours’ – The low ‘bridge’ or ‘table’ - Modality 5: Lifts – Pathways into space and back to the floor 5. Workshops: Our Partnerships and Projects Since 1994 - Children - Youth work - How would you rate your movement skills before and after the workshop? - Adults 6. Performance and Creative Process - Sixth Sense – Second Sight: Practice-based research – In performance - Productions post 1994 - I-radiate – 1999–2000 - SENSE-8 2000–01 - TACT 2002–03 - CLOSER. Created 2005–08 reworked as APPARENTLY NORMAL 2010–12 - Follow the frame - 343 m/s – The speed of sound - 343 m/s Lisbon 7. Final Words - The paradigm shift – Towards the individual and collective – Embracing the membrane of inclusion - The research accomplishments and the return of non-touch  - Capturing the experience – The multiple membranes  8. Three Touchdown Dance Artists’ Points of View - Introduction - Holly Thomas – Dancer and facilitator - Sharing practice - Performance work - Robert Anderson – Dancer and facilitator - Jamus Wood – Dancer and facilitator Afterword – Steve Paxton Appendix 1. The Small Dance 329 Appendix 2. The ‘Hatching Chick’ – And the ‘birth’ of the Membrane Concept Timeline Notes Bibliography

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Within the broad sweep of dance histories, we can overlook the complexity of how truly innovative practices emerge. This is a wonderfully in-depth account of Dymoke’s journey and the network of people (Paxton, Kilcoyne et al.) and events that led to the formation of Touchdown Dance and its concomitant breakthrough in inclusive pedagogy and praxis (which reached far beyond work with blind dancers).  In a post pandemic era, it is also a timely reminder of the importance of touch and of the responsibility and role of dancer as researcher to question, explore and extend the boundaries of what we are told is possible. -- Adam Benjamin

Author Information

Katy Dymoke is a dancer, dance teacher, dance-movement psychotherapist, dance film maker, working with all ages and abilities, infants to elderly. Katy makes dance films, writes books and walks in nature.

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