Dancing Across Borders: Perspectives on Dance, Young People and Change

Dancing Across Borders: Perspectives on Dance, Young People and Change (Routledge, 2020) was published just as the borders of the world closed in March 2020, but it focuses on how dance in projects and more permanent initiatives can contribute to ’crossing borders’ of very different characters: Between academia and arts practice, between art forms and between dance and different school subjects, between different educational programmes and sectors of the educational system as well as between cultures – both cultures of different countries, but also education culture and artist culture as well as cultures of different communities within the same national borders.

The book holds contributions from 42 authors from 20 different countries and is the third in a Routledge series based on an underpinning rationale in line with UNESCO’s Seoul Agenda: Goals for the Development of Arts Education. Taking point of departure in this rationale the ambition of the books is to create more knowledge about how to create more ’access’ to arts education, how to do this focusing on ’quality’ of education and how this can contribute to ‘social change’. 

Dancing Across Borders: Perspectives on Dance, Young People and Change was launched 14 October 2020 as part of an on-line series of research seminars organised by LASALLE College of the Arts Singapore and including participants from e.g. Singapore, Australia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Brazil, South Africa and Denmark. 

Read the foreword in the book series written by recently deceased Sir Ken Robinson who among other great contributions was known for being the speaker of the world’s most viewed TED talk ”Do schools kill creativity?” .

Read more about the book Dancing Across Borders: Perspectives on Dance, Young People and Change.

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