Dancing Across Borders

Dancing Across Borders presents formal and non-formal settings of dance education where initiatives in different countries transcend borders: cultural and national borders, subject borders, professional borders and socio-economic borders. It includes chapters featuring different theoretical perspectives on dance and cultural diversity, alongside case narratives that show these perspectives in a specific cultural setting. In this way, each section charts the processes, change and transformation in the lives of young people through dance.

Key themes include how student learning is enhanced by cultural diversity, experiential teaching and learning involving social, cross-cultural and personal dimensions. This conceptually aligns with the current UNESCO protocols that accent empathy, creativity, cooperation, collaboration alongside skills- and knowledge-based learning in an endeavour to create civic mindedness and a more harmonious world.

This volume is an invaluable resource for teachers, policy makers, artists and scholars interested in pedagogy, choreography, community dance practice, social and cultural studies, aesthetics and interdisciplinary arts. By understanding the impact of these cross-border collaborative initiatives, readers can better understand, promote and create new ways of thinking and working in the field of dance education for the benefit of new generations.

“'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 Bordersexplores 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”

'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

'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

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.

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