Close Encounters: Dance Partners for Creativity

Author(s): Linda Rolfe

Art & Creative Therapies

Young people today need to be flexible, imaginative and resilient and to use their creativity holistically and appropriately. "Close Encounters" shows how creativity and the special relationships that facilitate it can be nurtured within education through dance. Dance Partners for Creativity, an intensive two-year qualitative research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, underpins this book. It shows that dance-based partnerships have a place in the kinds of education futures that will have to be made in the 21st century. The enquiry and research-based ideas about dance-based partnership's role in current and future education presented will greatly enrich the thinking of practitioners, researchers and policy makers interested in arts practices and educational futures.


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The core DPC research team, Kerry Chappell, Linda Rolfe, Anna Craft and Veronica Jobbins, are based at the Graduate School of Education, University of Exeter and at Trinity Laban Dance and Music Conservatoire.

Part One: Creating spaces for fruitful boundary crossings Chapter 1: Methodology Part Two: Creative learning conversations: dialogues with the Partner Researchers Chapter 2: Transformative journeys in creativity Chapter 3: Converge/Diverge: Intersecting conversations on creative learning Rachelle Chapter 4: Embracing collaborative choreography on the path to creative engagement. Chapter 5: The 'double act' of partnership; breaking the rules to explore new possibilities for dance pedagogy Part Three: What kinds of partnerships...? Chapter 6: How shaping and shifting identities, positions and roles nurtures humanising creativity Chapter 7: The development of partnership pedagogies within a community of practice Chapter 8: Becoming Meddlers in the Middle: Partnership and Possibility Chapter 9: (Dance) education partnership - challenging performativity Part Four: Learning from DPC to develop Educational Futures

General Fields

  • : 9781858564876
  • : Trentham Books Ltd
  • : Trentham Books Ltd
  • : 30 September 2011
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Linda Rolfe
  • : Paperback
  • : 792.8071
  • : 184
  • : illustrations