«This work examines ethics and the changing values in the world of dance, especially as faced by young dancers entering the profession. Since the 1960s, scholars and practitioners from the fields of dance education, somatics, and the realms of postmodern dance and ballet have increasingly believed that attitudes and practices involving psychological, physical, and sexual mistreatment of students and dancers must be challenged.
Dance and Ethics examines key ethical issues related to the dance field, primarily within the United States, and how those directly impact different aspects of the lives of dance artists throughout their careers. The issues discussed include the basic ethical choices facing a dance artist in terms of whether to care about ethics or separate art from morality; ethical issues involved in student–teacher and dancer–choreographer relationships; how ethical concerns relate to the creation and reception of choreographic work; ethical aspects of the critical assessment of dance and dancers; and ethical issues related to presenting systems and institutional infrastructures within the dance field.» 4e de couverture

Contient
1- Why Study Ethical Issues in Dance ?
2- Dance, Decency and a Life Well-Lived
3- Educating Dancers with Dignity, Respect and Care
4- Ethics and Dance Making
5- Ethics and Critiquing Dance
6- Ethical Issues in the Presenting World of Dance
7- "Care"-fully Negotiating Change; Moving Towards a More Human Dance Culture[-]

" Addreses the real-world challenges that face teachers as they work to reshape their teaching habits and processes to include consent pratices in the classroom.

The collection explores consent as a fondational principle to guide practices and policies in university level performing arts education. Including description of the structural power dynamics present in educational spaces, it provides tools for mitigating them. It adaptes the consent protocols that are foundational to theatrical intimacy direction and applies them to classroom and rehearsal space across performing arts disciplines.

Using experimential refletions, contributors discuss the principles of consent, how to open lines of communication, establishing personal boundaries, and modeling behaviors that respect those boundaries." 4e de couverture

Contents
1- Consent and Power Dynamics
2- Programmatic Policies
3- Classroom Facilitation
4- Production Facilitation
5- Activities and Strategies for Facilitating Consent Practices
6- Notes from the Field : The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly[-]

Même si les épidémies et les pandémies sont au cœur de multiples œuvres littéraires et artistiques, la danse reste académiquement moins explorée dans son rapport à la contamination, notamment dans le contexte francophone. Inscrit dans le champ des humanités médicales, Danses et pandémies revisite les grandes chorégraphies qui ont marqué l'histoire des pandémies, du sida à la covid-19, en France, en Amérique du Nord et en Afrique subsaharienne. Découpé en cinq chapitres, cet essai montre l'évolution des métaphores entourant le virus et la manière dont la danse se fait porte-parole et incarnation des viralités présentes dans toutes les structures de la société. Le travail de recherche universitaire de l'autrice rencontre ici sa pratique de danseuse, notamment grâce aux descriptions de scènes et de mouvements qui rythment le livre de façon à poser le corps comme outil premier de l'analyse critique.» 4e de couverture[-]