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Dance and the Quality of Life
Karen Bond (ed.)
Springer Verlag (2019)
Abstract
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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Chapters
Babies and Dance: Questions of Origin
Part scholarly narrative and part poetics, this short chapter begins with a contextual introduction to Karen Bond’s long-standing interest in university dance students’ perceptions of “baby dance.” Then, based on questions prompted by this introduction and from student papers on the subject of babie... see more
Dancing in the Setting Sun: Performance, Self-Actualization and the Elderly
Dancing has been identified as a significant contributor to the quality of life of elderly people, particularly in terms of mental health, physical health, and socialization. Much of the scholarship on dance and the elderly has focused on dancing as a social participatory practice, however, and less... see more
Memoir of a Dancing Life
This memoir offers a series of stories that stand out from a long life in dance, a life in which dance has supported happiness, enabling a philosophy of being. I highlight how dance has been a way of life more so than an artistic vocation, describing my career-long commitment to the inclusion of dan... see more
Dance and Quality of Life for Indigenous Communities in Australia
Indigenous peoples today continue ancient traditions of dance and other arts for sustaining and developing health and wellbeing. This chapter documents how traditional and contemporary dance practices of Indigenous peoples of Australia can strengthen participants’ access to quality of life, as descr... see more
Dancing it Out: Building Positive Peace
Occurring widely at local levels, dance is a potential asset for the peacebuilding field especially as related to positive peace. The construct of positive peace is concerned with much more than the absence of war or direct violence, encompassing quality of life as a whole. Using an artistic and qua... see more
Young People’s Experiences in Hip Hop Dance Participation
This article discusses findings from a study conducted in Melbourne, Australia with a small group of primary and secondary school age young people of refugee or recently immigrated backgrounds to explore their experiences of participating in hip hop dance classes and as part of a hip hop dance crew.... see more
Life-Changing Life Journeys Through Artistic and Educational Inclusive Contemporary Dance Contexts
This chapter presents a case study of two of the authors, Elen, a dancer, and Philip, a choreographer-teacher. It focuses on their experiences of change through long-term engagement in inclusive contemporary dance contexts, and how this participation has contributed to their quality of life. In this... see more
Women Span Personal to Political in an Israeli Belly Dance Setting
The World Dance Heritage Research Center calls belly dance a global phenomenon. This study highlights meanings of belly dancing in a multi-generational, inter-cultural group of women citizens of the state of Israel. Twenty-two women, ages 25–60, participated in a 6-week series of once-weekly, 90 min... see more
Quality of Working Life for Higher Education Dance Educators: Embodiment, Complexity, Transformation
Quality of life is intimately connected to quality of working life, which has many nuances, including one’s desire to perform their work with excellence. Thirty-five teachers in six countries participated in a study about contrasting experiences of “effectiveness” and “ineffectiveness.” The study em... see more
“A Little Kind of Community”: South African Students Dance for Self, Other and Society
South Africans dance! We dance to establish identity, build community, and to foster collective healing. This qualitative case study investigates meanings and locations of social cohesion in a South African dance teacher education setting. African philosophy, particularly notions of ubuntu, served a... see more
University Dance Students in Taiwan Step Out of Their “Bubble” of Elite Dance Training
This study examined how a group of professionally-trained college dance students experienced a challenging process when they stepped out of their “bubble” of elite dance education to learn how to teach creative dance for children. Forty-one students took part in a 1-year Dance Teaching Practicum thr... see more
Discovering Freedom in Dance Education
Studies have shown that subjective perceptions of freedom are often associated with experiences of high motivation, skill, and choice, along with satisfying outcomes. Freedom is a value applied to dance across age groups, populations, and cultures. Drawing on students’ descriptive accounts from prev... see more
Dance and the Quality of Life at Schools: A Nordic Affiliation
This chapter addresses how dance can foster quality of life at schools. We discuss dance as embodied learning, a topic explored previously as individuals, and introduce Martha Nussbaum and Amartya Sen’s “capability approach” into dance education research. We argue that these theoretical perspectives... see more
Somatic Movement Dance Education: A Feminist, Cognitive, Phenomenological Perspective on Creativity in Dance
Dance, as a practice of coupling the sensate moving being with the environmental context, is a form of embodied meaning-making. Somatics, the field of mind-body integration, offers pedagogical frameworks that can deepen the benefits of dance education in relation to bodily attention and perception, ... see more
Dance and Well-Being: Honoring Caroline Plummer
This chapter provides a glimpse of the experience of a community health registered nurse connecting her passion for the healing power of indigenous music and dance with community health nursing. As the recipient of the 2015 Caroline Plummer Community Dance Fellowship at the University of Otago New Z... see more
Understanding Quality of Life Through the Experiences of Dancers with Parkinson’s
Parkinson’s is a common neurodegenerative, chronic disease, typically striking after 50. It is a condition that affects body functioning, as well as emotional and social aspects of life. Many people living with Parkinson’s struggle to maintain or develop their quality of life. As a means to improve ... see more
The Impact of Community Engagement Through Dance on Teen and Young Adult Dancers
This chapter looks at the impact of community engagement through dance on adolescent and young adult dancers, particularly in relation to self-esteem, empathy, artistic understanding, and career aspirations of the participants, and whether dance differs from other kinds of civic engagement for them.... see more
Friction: Male Identity and Representation in Umfundalai
This study employs an autoethnographic lens to illuminate men’s constructions of gender in the Umfundalai tradition of African dance. Specifically, the research explores gender agency among eight male practitioners, including the researcher. The study’s qualitative methodology is informed by Max van... see more
Fathers, Sons and Encounters in Dance
This chapter discusses how dance fostered relationships between fathers and sons within a dance research project in Finland. From 2013 to 2016, Isto Turpeinen led workshops, rehearsals and performances based on his teaching methodology “raw-board-working.” In this chapter, Ralph Buck and Isto consid... see more
“Just Me and Daddy”
This chapter presents a qualitative study of fathers and their young sons who participated in a co-created dance class. Fourteen participants from six family groups , including the author, met together on seven Saturdays in a small community north of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The chapter documents... see more
How Seudati Put Me in Touch with Birds
This chapter discusses the author’s experience learning some of the movement elements of the Acehnese seudati, one of the most revered dances of the Aceh region of Indonesia. Seudati is a body percussion form that also includes singing and poetry as well as topical commentary and drumming accompanim... see more
Beauty in Disability: An Aesthetics for Dance and for Life
To what extent does dance contribute to an ideal of beauty that can enrich human quality of life? To what extent are standards of beauty predicated on an ideal human body that has no disability? In this chapter, we show how conceptions of proportionality, perfection, and ethereality from the Ancient... see more
Pause. Listen.: Visibility and Freedom in Choreographic Practice
This writing is about the working relationship between a dancer and a choreographer. In it I consider some of the ethical values of making and presenting experimental contemporary dance. The chapter covers issues of visibility, authority, and freedom exposed by the development and production of a ch... see more
The Spirit Moves: Christian Trance Dance in Late Medieval Europe and Early Nineteenth-Century America
Although Christianity has no official tradition of sacred dance, trance dance has been a powerful part of religious practice for certain Christians. Close examination of primary source documents from two periods of religious change and revival – thirteenth and fourteenth-centuries Europe and early n... see more
Dancing on Earth: The Healing Dance of Kalahari Bushmen and the Native American Ghost Dance Religion
This chapter examines two cases in which practices of ecstatic or transformative dance, though caught in the crosshairs of Christian colonialism, refused to die: the healing dance of the Kalahari Bushmen and the North American Native American Ghost Dance. Representatives of these two traditions regu... see more
West African Dance and Spiritual Well-Being for African Americans
Through autobiographical writing and ethnographic observation, this study highlights the life experience and educational activism of Jeanette “Adama Jewel” Jackson, founder and director of African Soul International, a non-profit organization based in Los Angeles. The chapter exemplifies how, for Af... see more
Dance as a Taonga from Children to the World: A Perspective from Aotearoa New Zealand
This chapter considers the relationship between dance and the early years of learning in the lives of children within a specific community. The context is Aotearoa New Zealand where early education is underpinned by New Zealand’s early childhood curriculum, Te Whāriki: He Whāriki Matauranga mō ngā M... see more
In the Shadow of Crisis: Dance and Meaning in the Anthropocene
This chapter is a phenomenological exploration of dance as a mode of reflecting on and responding to environmental crisis. From 2015 to 2016, I engaged in a one-year, daily practice of dancing, photographing and removing trash from the Wissahickon Park, a woodland that stretches for several miles th... see more
Dancing the Landscape
This chapter is concerned with the experience of dancing in and with landscapes. Here landscape encompasses the geophysical materials of the environment at Kiah on the far south coast of New South Wales, Australia, where I have lived for the past decade. I consider landscape to include the geologica... see more
Canyon Consciousness
I morph freely when I dance in canyons. My body becomes calm and receptive, sometimes shapeless. In such states, I can dance from emptiness, and feel better. Letting go of stagnant history, I can change in the flowing present, heal and re-gather form. I think of this mode of being present to nature ... see more
Introduction: At Last, Together
This chapter first establishes preliminary connections between the fields of social indicators–quality of life research and dance. I then outline some of the historical, social, and cultural forces that have kept dance from being taken seriously as a “fine art,” an area of education and scholarship,... see more
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