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List of figures | |
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Foreword | |
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Preface | |
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Acknowledgements | |
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Introduction | |
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Introduction: life after Stages | |
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Improvisation--access--training--touching on a definition | |
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A little on language, disability, integration and inclusivity | |
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Disability-specific groups and the Simpson Board | |
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A serious dislocation | |
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The god, the bad and the ugly: three approaches to dance in one mythical family | |
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Apollo's mission: the elevation and inaccessibility of dance | |
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Louis XIV: the king who stole space to make steps | |
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Darwin, eugenics and state control | |
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'Some of the people' v. 'All of the people'; Hitler v. F. D. Roosevelt | |
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Natura non facit saltum: leaps of the imagination--Cunningham and Keller | |
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Natura facit saltum: nature dances, and so do disabled people; contact improvisation and developments in America | |
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A dance whose time had come: disabled people make an entrance | |
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X marks the spot: X.24 to X6--contemporary and new dance initiatives in the UK | |
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The hobbling dance | |
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'Just' moving: ethics, integration and the discipline of improvisation | |
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The great mistake: response-ability and feedback | |
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Tension seekers: a poet/hunter's guide to improvisation | |
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Tension as a guide to feedback | |
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Demons and dragons: some thoughts on becoming blocked in improvisation | |
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Is it therapy? | |
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Tears and fears | |
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Special schools, special students and integrated practice | |
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Learning with difficulty | |
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When to say 'no' | |
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Lost narrative | |
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Access v. excellence | |
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Setting up | |
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An integrated group does not handicap its non-disabled dancers | |
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Selection criteria | |
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Exercises and Improvisations | |
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Working against resistance: an introduction to the improvisations and exercises | |
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An unruly location | |
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Ground rules in the studio | |
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The dance space | |
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Wheelchairs: safety and etiquette | |
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Hard metal, soft bodies: avoiding injury | |
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Helping yourself: teachers' supports | |
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Introductory work | |
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Stretching a point | |
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Flock: in search of a 'common sense' | |
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Breath, proximity and distance | |
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Spirit level | |
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Breathing Space | |
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Seaweed exercise | |
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Linear pathways exercise | |
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Receiving: stopped in your tracks | |
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Open hand | |
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Listening through touch | |
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Leading and following | |
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Interloper: introducing the third person | |
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Departures | |
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Freewheeling | |
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The art of stealing | |
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Cascade | |
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Aerial pathways | |
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Making an entrance in time and space | |
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Crossing the line: 'inscaping' not escaping | |
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Lessons in non-competition: hubris and nemesis | |
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Crossing the line on time | |
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Arch Enemies and rites of passage | |
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Making an entrance: a development of crossing the line | |
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Entrance/exit | |
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Encounters | |
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Vocal scores | |
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Con-temp-lation: thinking about space, time and centre | |
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A meditation in situ | |
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What is the point of balance? | |
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Pivot: an introduction to plateau | |
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Plateau: A practical exploration | |
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Balancing the picture | |
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Ordering space | |
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Playing for space | |
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Resting is dancing | |
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Free improvisation in the studio | |
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Improvisations and the environment | |
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Graceful ways, or seaching for clews | |
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Traverse: travelling in a group | |
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Narrative traverse | |
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Narrative, musical, traverse | |
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The far side | |
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Amoeba, and the single-cell solo | |
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Individual considerations | |
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Soloing: an exercise in confronting dragons | |
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Contradiction: Creating counter movements | |
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Lightly balanced on the edge of centre | |
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Reaching: a warm-up | |
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Suspended weight: a development of reaching | |
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Testing structures | |
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Tilting sculptural forms | |
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Dynamic stretch | |
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Ropes and mountains | |
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The gentle circle | |
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Disabled students and lifting | |
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Counter-balances and chair tilts: dicing with Newtonian physics | |
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Back tilting from the front | |
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Back tilting from behind | |
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Partnered side tilt using a manual chair | |
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Art and theatre | |
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Freeze-frame | |
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Line dance | |
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Impressions | |
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Placement replacement | |
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Speed and timing | |
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Gateway: without deviation or besitation | |
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Gauntlet | |
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A little more time: exercises to develop an understanding of rhythm and the duration of a simple gesture or action | |
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A simple exercise in timing | |
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A not so simple exercise in timing | |
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A not at all simple exercise in timing | |
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Live music | |
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Calling | |
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Musicians and dancers | |
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In opposition | |
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Directory | |
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Excerpts from an African diary | |
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Glossary | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index | |