Dancing Mind, Minding Dance: Socially Relevant and Personally Resonant Dance Education

Dancing Mind, Minding Dance is a collection of critical texts by scholar and researcher Doug Risner, emphasizing the significance of social relevance and personal resonance in dance education. It addresses issues such as rehearsal process, curriculum, pedagogy, teaching artists, gender, and sexual identity, and proposes a visionary vision for addressing social justice and inclusion in dance and dance education. The book appeals to a wide range of stakeholders in dance training and preparation.

Format: Hardback
Length: 272 pages
Publication date: 05 June 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Dancing Mind, Minding Dance is a comprehensive collection of essential texts authored by scholar and researcher Doug Risner, whose pioneering work over the past three decades has underscored the paramount importance of social relevance and personal resonance in dance education. Drawing upon Risner's groundbreaking research and visionary scholarship, the book contextualizes critical issues of dance making within the rehearsal process, dance curriculum and pedagogy in 21st-century postsecondary dance education, the role of dance teaching artists in schools and community environments, and dance, gender, and sexual identity, particularly the feminization of dance and the marginalization of males who dance. This book concludes with Risner's prophetic vision for employing reflective practice to address social justice and inclusion and humanizing pedagogies in dance and dance education across all sectors of dance training and preparation.

Beginning with his first book, Stigma and Perseverance in the Lives of Boys Who Dance (2009), Risner has established himself as the preeminent education researcher, scholar, and practitioner dedicated to enhancing the education and training of young dancers in humanistic ways. The book will resonate with dance educators and teachers, dance education scholars and researchers, choreographers, parents and care-givers of dance students, and those who work as teaching artists, arts administrators, private sector dance studio directors and teachers, as well as arts education researchers and scholars broadly. While a few chapters in this book were originally published in various Taylor & Francis journals, the majority of the content is original and unpublished.

Weight: 700g
Dimension: 254 x 178 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032382081