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  title info:
    title: Dance and ethics
    sub title: moving towards a more humane dance culture
  name:
    name part: Jackson, Naomi M.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2022
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 257 pages ; 25 cm.
  abstract: Dance and Ethics: Moving Towards a More Humane Culture is an introductory study of ethical issues as applied to the history and field of Western theatrical dance. It is the first sustained work of its kind, inspired by the belief that there are serious issues to be illuminated by examining dance in relation to ethics and to the changing values in the dance world itself, especially as faced by young dancers entering the profession. Since the 1960s and gathering momentum with the #metoo movement, scholars and practitioners, especially from the fields of dance education, somatics and the realms of postmodern dance and ballet, have increasingly believed that attitudes and practices involving psychological, physical and sexual mistreatment of students and dancers must be challenged. Dance and Ethics examines key ethical issues related to the dance field, primarily within the United States, and how those directly impact different aspects of the lives of dance artists over the span of their careers. The issues discussed include the basic ethical choices facing a dance artist in terms of whether to care about ethics or separate art from morality, ethical issues involved in student-teacher and dancer-choreographer relationships, how ethical concerns relate to the creation and reception of choreographic work, ethical aspects of the critical assessment of dance and dancers and ethical issues related to presenting systems and institutional infrastructures within the dance field. While there is a clear bias towards greater humanism within the dance field, Naomi Jackson is sensitive to the variety of moral stances available in any given situation. Readers are invited to consider that ethical options exist other than those that are usually promoted, that while sometimes there are no clear right and wrong answers, there are better and worse positions to be explored and defended and that it is important for the dance field and broader culture to consciously address ethical issues in…
  table of contents: Why Study Ethical Issues in Dance? -- Dance, Decency and a Life Well-Lived -- Educating Dancers with Dignity, Respect and Care -- Ethics and Dance Making -- Ethics and Critiquing Dance -- Ethical Issues in the Presenting World of Dance -- 'Care'-fully Negotiating Change : Moving Towards a More Humane Dance Culture.
  note: Naomi M. Jackson.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-248) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Dance
    topic: Moral and ethical aspects
  subject:
    topic: Theater
    topic: Moral and ethical aspects
  classification: GV1741 .J33 2022
  classification: 175
  identifier: 9781789386134
  identifier: 1789386136
  identifier: 9781789386158
  identifier: 9781789386141
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 220830
    record change date: 20230608154603.7
    record identifier: in00004645180