{"id":2037,"date":"2012-01-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wptest\/2012\/01\/12\/the-power-of-dance-what-are-we-engaged-in-when-we-dance-and-what-does-this-mean-when-the-autistic-child-dances-both-individually-and-alongside-others\/"},"modified":"2012-01-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-12T00:00:00","slug":"the-power-of-dance-what-are-we-engaged-in-when-we-dance-and-what-does-this-mean-when-the-autistic-child-dances-both-individually-and-alongside-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/2012\/01\/12\/the-power-of-dance-what-are-we-engaged-in-when-we-dance-and-what-does-this-mean-when-the-autistic-child-dances-both-individually-and-alongside-others\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Dance: what are We Engaged in When We Dance and What Does This Mean When the Autistic Child Dances Both Individually and Alongside Others?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CONCEPT: How dance can affect the autistic child\u2019s sense of self, and whether this is more beneficial in a segregated or integrated setting  <\/p>\n<p>PHILOSOPHY: Sparshott\u2019s A Measured Pace: Toward a Philosophical Understanding of the Arts of Dance, supported by such thinkers as Havelock Ellis and criticised by Graham McFee  <\/p>\n<p>SOURCES: interviews with teachers, factual research on Autism, case studies on dance for Autistic children, secondary texts on dance such as Thomas\u2019 Dance, Modernity and Culture, and secondary texts on special needs children and the arts such as Roberts\u2019 Encouraging Expression: The Arts in the Primary Curriculum. <\/p>\n<p>Thesis: As an individual experience, dance can be the most direct way for the autistic child to access the self; giving way to more stable connections with the world and others. <\/p>\n<p>The most central emotion for an autistic child is fear. The autistic child\u2019s communication difficulties and confused concept of self means fear is associated with situations where the child has to apply the self to the world and to others.  <\/p>\n<p>Sparshott\u2019s philosophy of dance argues when dance is done for its own sake, the individual is \u2018self-transformed\u2019 into the dancing body.  <\/p>\n<p>The most powerful and significant outcome of dance as an individual experience for the autistic child, above all the other arts, seems to be the potential it has to unlock something within their mind. As Sparshott says, it is in the immediacy of dance that engages the individual in a self-transforming experience where the self is in absolute connection with the body.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Felicity Sanderson, 2012, Stage 3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[592,22,123],"tags":[415,199,602],"class_list":["post-2037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-592","category-abstracts","category-stage-3-abstracts","tag-dance","tag-neurodivergance","tag-sparshott"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}