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Introduction: life after Stages -- Improvisation--access--training--touching on a definition -- A little on language, disability, integration and inclusivity -- Disability-specific groups and the Simpson Board -- A serious dislocation -- The god, the bad and the ugly: three approaches to dance in one mythical family -- Apollo's mission: the elevation and inaccessibility of dance -- Louis XIV: the king who stole space to make steps -- Darwin, eugenics and state control -- 'Some of the people' v. 'All of the people'; Hitler v. F.D. Roosevelt -- Natura non facit saltum: leaps of the imagination--Cunningham and Keller -- Natura facit saltum: nature dances, and so do disabled people; contact improvisation and developments in America -- A dance whose time had come: disabled people make an entrance -- X marks the spot: X.24 to X6--contemporary and new dance initiatives in the UK -- The hobbling dance -- 'Just' moving: ethics, integration and the discipline of improvisation -- The great mistake: response-ability and feedback -- Tension seekers: a poet/hunter's guide to improvisation -- Tension as a guide to feedback -- Demons and dragons: some thoughts on becoming blocked in improvisation -- Is it therapy? -- Tears and fears -- Special schools, special students and integrated practice -- Learning with difficulty -- When to say 'no' -- Lost narrative -- Access v. excellence -- Setting up -- An integrated group does not handicap its non-disabled dancers -- Selection criteria -- Exercises and Improvisations. |
