Ethical Agility in Dance: Rethinking Technique in British Contemporary Dance boldly proposes a new ethics of embodied knowledge in contemporary dance technique training. Specifically focusing on dance education in the UK, the volume explores core ethical values of contemporary dance, drawing upon a wide spectrum of critical theory including post-colonial, feminist, intercultural and interdisciplinary perspectives. Ethical Agility in Dance is a timely publication acknowledging with urgency the current state of dance education, following the impact of funding cuts to the Higher Education arts sectors, the world health crisis, decolonial political activism, and the BLM movement. Amidst a backdrop of shifting global contexts in the “volatile” world of professional dance (1), the volume proposes innovative critical methodologies of dance ethics in direct alignment with dance Technique, to vigorously re-examine twenty-first century dance as a social, inclusive, and democratic process.

Vicky Spanovangelis (Author)

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Ethical Agility in Dance