Dancing Across Borders

Charlotte Svendler Nielsen is Associate Professor and Head of Studies at the Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports research cluster “Embodiment, Learning and Social Change” University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Stephanie Burridge lectures at LASALLE College of the Arts and Singapore Management University and is Series Editor for Routledge Celebrating Dance in Asia and the Pacific.

• List of contributors Foreword by Sir Ken Robinson Acknowledgements Introduction PART 1 - Collaborations across arts practice and academia 1 Dancing past categories: Researching a live art project with participants (UK) (Pat Thomson and Emily Pringle) 2 ‘It’s all about art!’ Crossing borders of academia and arts practice in an arts-integrated educational project in South Africa (South Africa) (Charlotte Svendler Nielsen, Gerard M. Samuel, Peter Vadim, Fabian Hartzenberg, and Liesl Hartman) 3 Softening the boarders of codification (Singapore) (Susan Sentler) 4 A step offstage to restage: Remembering Swan Lake (USA) (Ravenna Tucker Wagnon) 5 Shapeshifting collaborative paradigms across borders, within tertiary choreographic education (New Zealand) (Sarah Knox) PART 2 - Difference and diversity - community initiatives 6 Fostering intercultural competence and social justice through dance and physical education: Finnish PE student teachers’ experiences and reflections (Finland) (Mariana Siljamäki and Eeva Anttila) 7 Sustaining dance practices in turbulent times: Dance, displacement, identity and the Syrian Civil War (Syria and Germany) (Rose Martin) 8 Children’s dance across borders during the Festival of the Children of Mountains in Nowy Sącz (Poland) (Monika Kurzeja) 9 Unlocking joy in the body: Creative movement with Yazidi refugees in Northern Iraq (Iraq) (Lydia J. Mathis) 10 Who sets the limits for us?- dance for equal movement rights in Estonia (Estonia) (Anu Sööt and Raido Mägi) PART 3 - Intercultural collaborations in dance education 11 Women of consequence (WOC) – ambitious, ancillary and anonymous: A cross-border arts-based research project between South Africa and USA (USA and South Africa) (Lynette Young Overby, Lisa Wilson and Dianna Ruberto) 12 Brazil and Denmark dance encounters: A case study of intercultural artistic coexistences in higher educational contexts. (Brazil and Denmark) (Deborah Dodd Macedo) 13 Dancing across the wall(s) of exclusion: reflections of two dance teachers on overcoming barriers to difference in dance education (USA and Uganda) (Alfdaniels Mabingo and Susan Koff) 14 Sum of our ancestors: we are connected to spirit and to Country – we are the sum of our ancestors? (Australia) (Jo Clancy) 15 Disrupting the ‘foreign’ and the ‘indigenous’: teaching dance as an investigative practice in the contemporary Indian context (India) (Meghna Bhardwaj) 16 Crossing Borders by teaching dance around the world (International) (Laura Kool) PART 4 - Integrated arts 17 The significance of an interdisciplinary arts pedagogical approach for dance teaching artists on dance education in Singapore (Singapore) (Kie Watkins and Stephanie Burridge) 18 Artistic process as a frame for collaborative, embodied pedagogies: combining dance with language learning (Finland) (Hanna M. Nikkanen, Katja Kirsi and Eeva Anttila) 19 Breaking the fourth wall: Getting closer to the audience through participatory experience of dance. (Hong Kong) (Anna C.Y. Chan) 20 Learning through an artistic experience: Connecting dance and fine art in the project ‘Movement and its trace’ (Slovenia) (Vesna Geršak and Uršula Podobnik) PART 5 - Collaborations across subjects and educational sectors 21 The role of movement, dynamics and expression in children’s drawings of dancing (Australia) (Susan Wright and Jan Deans) 22 Reaching back to move forward: performing the archive as interdisciplinary artistic-educational process (South Africa) (Alan Parker and Gerard M. Samuel) 23 Magic in movements! The art of teaching creative dance through the cultural schoolbag (Norway) (Kristine Høeg Karlsen, Gunhild Brænne Bjørnstad and Heidi Remberg Høeg) 24 Dance in nursing education: Somatic awareness, improvisation and embodied leadership (Denmark) (Helle Winther) 25 Moving onto, into and between the boxes: Surfaces and volumes as the triggers for children’s movement (Indonesia) (Paramita Atmodiwirjo and Yandi Andri Yatmo) Index

'This important collection is relevant to anyone who teaches or creates in the field of dance, dance education or the arts. It encourages us to review our own cultural ways of knowing and teaching, and challenges us to think in new ways with new awareness to become more empathic and open to diversity.' - Sherry B. Shapiro, Professor Emeritus, Meredith College, USA'Dancing Across Borders explores the pivot value of movement-based learning in formal, informal and cross-disciplinary settings. Highlighting a range of international, collaborative projects the authors engage in broad debates that reveal the unifying impact and value of learning through shared narratives. Across the range of themes, critical discussion and case study examples there is a chance to explore the important role that arts can play in education when working alongside other disciplines and is open to facilitating positive change. The authors, in their own voices, encourage questions to be asked in new ways, addressing how we can think together and how in our shifting identities of home and tradition; of education, and of discipline, we can question what shapes cultures of practice and forges new co-relating freedoms of expression.' - Fiona Bannon, Senior Lecturer, University of Leeds, UK