Acknowledgements
Contributors
Introduction
Part I Inclusive dance pedagogy
Chapters
1.1 Making no difference: Inclusive dance pedagogy
1.2 Developing inclusive dance pedagogy: Dialogue, activism and aesthetic transformative learning
Case narratives
1.3 Beyond technique: Diversity in dance as a transformative practice
1.4 Exploring the relationship between dance and disability: A personal journey
1.5 'Sowing Dance' body movement for children from six months to three years old: The experience in Mesquita, Brazil
1.6 Dance for children with dyspraxia: The impact of Royal Academy of Dance, London, projects
Part II Equality, advocacy and policy
Chapters
2.1 Values and principles shaping community dance
2.2 The ugly duckling: Stories of dance and disability from Denmark and South Africa
2.3 Dance, education and participation: The 'Planters' project in Girona, Spain
Case narratives
2.4 Building identity through dance: Exploring the influence of dance for individuals with special needs
2.5 Encountering and embodying difference through dance: Reflections on a research project in a primary school in Finland
2.6 New spaces for creativity and action: Recent developments in the Applied Performing Arts in Catalonia
Part III Changing practice for dance education
Chapters
3.1 Supporting change: The identification and development of talented young dancers with disabilities
3.2 Reflections from a/r/tography: Perspectives to review creative activities with special needs children
3.3 Learning in action: Intersecting approaches to teaching dance in Timor-Leste and Australia
Case narratives
3.4 Exploring disability and dance: A Papua New Guinean experience
3.5 ASEAN Para Games 2015: Dancing for inclusivity
3.6 Dancing partners/ dancing peers: A wheelchair dance collaborative
Part IV Community dance initiatives
Chapters
4.1 Dance and affect: Re-connecting minds to bodies of young adult survivors of violence, India
4.2 Digital stories: Three young people's experience in a community dance class
4.3 Community initiatives for special needs dancers: An evolving ecology in Singapore
Case narratives
4.4 Celebrating diversity: A Jamaican story
4.5 I Can... : A Cambodian inclusive arts project
4.6 Learning together through dance: Making cultural connections in Indonesia
4.7 From the ground up: A Portuguese dance education collaboration with regional communities
Part V Professional integrated collaborations
Chapters
5.1 Pulling back from being together: An ethnographic consideration of dance, digital technology and Hikikomori in Japan and the UK
5.2 Freefalling with ballet
5.3 Troubling access and inclusion: A phenomenological study of children's learning opportunities in artistic-educational encounters with a professional contemporary dance production
Case narratives
5.4 Dancing in wheelchairs: A Malaysian story
5.5 'Twilight': Connection to place through an intergenerational multi-site dance project
5.6 Navi's story: Access to collective identity through intercultural dance in the Fiji Islands
5.7 The value of an extended dance residency: Restless Dance Theatre in a South Australian school 2014-2015