Animated Edition - Summer 2005
Focus on: wellbeing
As a journalist I enjoy the attempt to find and employ an accuracy of language. In that spirit, I've just turned to my well-thumbed triple-volume Reader's Digest Great Encyclopaedic Dictionary. Therein health is defined as 'n. Soundness of body, mind, etc.; that condition in which functions of body and mind are duly discharged.'
Interesting. But I wonder, can health be passed around like a gift, or spread about like fertiliser? Is it wisdom? And could a fraction of it, with good luck plus a lot of effort, possibly be sprinkled across the pages of a magazine?
As guest editor of Animated, I've come to realise that amongst the kinds of writing I value most are honest opinions or experiences expressed with passion and clarity. I trust you'll find at least some of that here.
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In this issue
From city slicker to nature boy: Donald Hutera discovers latent tree-hugging tendencies in the middle of a somewhere called Somerset
Guest editor Donald Hutera
The focus: dance, wellbeing & health
From pointe shoes to pointed remarks, Matthew Wyon offers insights into a dancer's health
The focus: dance, wellbeing and health
Thanks to her mum, choreographer Bim Malcolmson began a whole new career devising dances for hospitals
Diane Amans sheds welcome light on the meaning of partnership working and how to achieve it
Newcastle-based Amanda Drago charts her first foray into blending new technology and dance for children
East London Dance programme manager Polly Risbridger takes a Leap of Faith over older people dancing
Dance artist Miranda Tufnell and writer and psychotherapist Brenda Mallon share their approach to the sensing body and the healing power of the imagination
Follow Katy Dymoke's journey from dance therapist to creator of special training courses for dance artists and activity nurses in mental health settings
Katie Ward enthuses about the possibilities of using dance to inform young people about sexual health and relationships
Former company manager Mairead Turner offers a personal response to spring issue cover girl Jasmin Vardimon's Lullaby
British artist Jim Buchanan roams the world inviting others into his cunning pathways
International
Dansstationen co-director Torsten Schenlaer explains how dance has reached new levels of popularity in regional Sweden
Professional development
Skills development officer Yee Ling Tang describes the ways in which artists freshen up themselves and their practice at Cheshire Dance
The interview
As AMICI Dance Theatre celebrates its 25th Anniversary Wolfgang Stange talks to Scilla Dyke about the company's core philosophy and practice