From Reflection To Action : Using community dance as a form of compassionate activism
Author: Natalie How
Course:
MA Dance Leadership and Community
Year: 2025
Keywords:
Activism,
Community dance,
Dance--Social aspects,
Abstract
From Reflection to Action : Using community dance as a form of compassionate activism, explores how the values of community dance and its pedagogy can be used as a form of activism in response to the closure of the dance agency Greenwich Dance (GD) in December 2023 and surrounding the ongoing funding cuts to community dance in the UK. The inquiry includes discoveries of the impact the closure had on its community and the possibilities that can arise when community dance is used as a form of compassionate activism, particularly in relation to its transformational value as a process and implications in relation to community and activist performance. The research offers a methodology and practice that combines compassionate activism and community dance that can be used for other and future projects working in activism. Key words: compassionate activism, community dance, performance of care, participatory art, socially engaged art
Full text
You must be a Trinity Laban staff member or student, or alternatively be a visitor onsite to gain access to the full text of this thesis. Please
login.
Request accessible copy
Accesible copies can only currently be made available to Trinity Laban staff member or students. Please
login.
Metadata
| dc.contributor.author |
|
| dc.date.accessioned |
2025-12-11 04:07 |
| dc.date.copyright |
2025 |
| dc.identifier.uri |
https://researchonline.trinitylaban.ac.uk/oa/thesis/?p=3529 |
| dc.description.abstract |
From Reflection to Action : Using community dance as a form of compassionate activism, explores how the values of community dance and its pedagogy can be used as a form of activism in response to the closure of the dance agency Greenwich Dance (GD) in December 2023 and surrounding the ongoing funding cuts to community dance in the UK. The inquiry includes discoveries of the impact the closure had on its community and the possibilities that can arise when community dance is used as a form of compassionate activism, particularly in relation to its transformational value as a process and implications in relation to community and activist performance. The research offers a methodology and practice that combines compassionate activism and community dance that can be used for other and future projects working in activism. Key words: compassionate activism, community dance, performance of care, participatory art, socially engaged art
|
| dc.language.iso |
EN |
| dc.subject |
Activism |
| dc.subject |
Community dance |
| dc.subject |
Dance--Social aspects |
| dc.title |
From Reflection To Action : Using community dance as a form of compassionate activism |
| thesis.degree.name |
MA Dance Leadership and Community |
| dc.date.updated |
2025-12-11 04:07
|
Coming soon:
dc.type
thesis.degree.level
dc.rights.accessrights
APA
How, Natalie. (2025). From Reflection To Action : Using community dance as a form of compassionate activism (Masters’ theses). Retrieved https://researchonline.trinitylaban.ac.uk/oa/thesis/?p=3529