The Body Can Speak: Essays on Creative Movement Education with Emphasis on Dance and Drama

Table of contents

• The Body Can Speak *
• The Body Can Speak - Essays on Creative Movement Education with Emphasis on Dance and Drama *
• Contents vii
• Illustrations ix
• Foreword xi
• Editor's Preface xiii
• Editor's Acknowledgments *
• Part One - As We See It *
• 1 - As I See It 3
• 2 - Moving into Belonging: the Dance of Mother and Child 6
• 3 - Education Through Dance 10
• 4 - The Common Aesthetic 15
• 5 - Art and the Intellect 18
• Part Two - How We Do It *
• 6 - A Teacher Remembers (New Beginning in America) 33
• 7 - A Male Dancer's Journey 45
• 8 - Creative Freedom, a Personal Treasure: a Tribute to Alwin Nikolais 53
• 9 - Spontaneous Creation (Dance Improvisation) 58
• 10 - Adventures in Real Space: an Alternate Mode of Thinking and Problem Solving 65
• 11 - Putting It Together: Integrating the Arts in Learning and Living 71
• 12 - Being (And Doing) in the Body 79
• 13 - History and Development of the Halprin Life/Art Process 88
• 14 - Spring Celebration: a Movement Ritual for Children 101
• 15 - Teaching Dance to Children 105
• 16 - On Teachers 109
• 17 - Dance 112
• 18 - Up, Down, Round, and Round: from Creative Dance to Dance Therapy (A Personal Retrospective) 126
• 19 - Sharing the Gift of Dance: Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company's Bosnian Refugee Performances— Slovenia Tour, May 1993 132
• Suggested Readings 139
• Contributors 143

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