Making an Entrance

Adam Benjamin is a freelance choreographer and teacher with a world wide reputation who has consistently stretched the boundaries of who can be involved in dance. He was co-founder and joint director of CandoCo Dance Company (1990-98) and has pioneered integrated dance workshops and performances in Africa, Asia and Europe.

Foreword Preface Acknowledgements Part 1: Introduction 1. Introduction: life after Stages 2. Improvisation - access - training - touching on a definition 3. A little on language, disability, integration and inclusivity 4. Disability-specific groups and the Simpson Board 5. A serious dislocation 6. 'Just' moving: ethics, integration and the disciplines of improvisation 7. The great mistake: response-ability and feedback 8. Tension seekers: a poet/hunter's guide to improvisation 9. Tension as a guide to feedback 10. Demons and dragons: some thoughts on becoming blocked in improvisation 11. Is it therapy? 12. Special schools, special students and integrated practice 13. Lost narrative 14. Access v. excellence Part 2: Exercises and Improvisations 15. Working against resistance: an introduction to the improvisations and exercises 16. An unruly location 17. Introductory work 18. Listening through touch 19. Making an entrance in time and space 20. Con-temp-lation: thinking about space, time and centre 21. Graceful ways, or searching for clews 22. Individual considerations 23. Lightly balanced on the edge of centre 24. Counter-balances and chair tilts: dicing with Newtonian physics 25. Art and theatre 26. Speed an timing 27. A little more time: exercises to develop an understanding of rhythm and the duration of a simple gesture or action 28. Live music Appendix 1: Directory Appendix 2: Excerpts from an African diary Appendix 3: Glossary Bibliography Index