Animated Edition - Spring 2004
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Focus on: methodology
We have been considering for some time how to make Animated more user friendly whilst maintaining its challenging edge. This issue, we hope, is a positive step on that pathway. The Foundation for Community Dance believes that Animated should fulfil a number of roles: profiling the diversity of dance happening in community settings, the diversity ofthe people taking part and the wider issues with which our work connects.
However, we see it primarily as a conduit between practitioners and their developing practice - celebrating the best of work happening across the UK and beyond, promoting the sharing of ideas, offering opportunities to learn from each other's experience, challenging our preconceptions and profiling initiatives that shift the boundaries of what the work might be. Most importantly we seek to celebrate the diverse practice of community dance placing the individual drives, passions and voices of practitioners at the heart of...
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In this issue
UK dance writer Donald Hutera chooses the fat in the first of an ongoing series of commentary-filled columns
Ken Bartlett, Creative Director, Foundation for Community Dance
The focus: methodology
'Alchemy: the transmutation of baser metals into gold' [Oxford English Dictionary] by Michael Platt
Penny Greenland MBE reveals the threads of her methodologies and the wellspring of the passion that drives her work
"Would the real me please step forwards" "Tonight Matthew, I'm going to be..." By Manny Emslie and Sue Akroyd
Choreographer Rosemary Brandt reveals her approach to the development of new approaches to the teaching of Ballet for the 21st Century
International
Caroline Plummer and Ralph Buck on community dance in New Zealand
Policy and politics
Judy Van Zile, Professor of Dance, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, raises some important questions about cultural authenticity, cultural diversity and ownership
Professional development
Julia Potts on what Magpie Dance is doing to support choreography by its learning disabled dancers
The interview
Kate Castle, director of Dance South West in conversation with Scilla Dyke