{"id":2213,"date":"2017-03-28T09:00:18","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T09:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/?p=2213"},"modified":"2017-03-17T18:54:04","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T18:54:04","slug":"plymouth-university-researcher-adam-benjamin-featured-in-new-international-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/2017\/03\/28\/plymouth-university-researcher-adam-benjamin-featured-in-new-international-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Benjamin featured in new book about international dance leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.plymouth.ac.uk\/staff\/adam-benjamin\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2214 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2017\/03\/xlarge_Adam_Benjamin-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2017\/03\/xlarge_Adam_Benjamin-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2017\/03\/xlarge_Adam_Benjamin-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2017\/03\/xlarge_Adam_Benjamin-560x560.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2017\/03\/xlarge_Adam_Benjamin-260x260.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2017\/03\/xlarge_Adam_Benjamin-160x160.jpg 160w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2017\/03\/xlarge_Adam_Benjamin.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Adam Benjamin<\/a>, Lecturer in Theatre and Performance, is one of six international dance artists featured in a new publication entitled <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/us\/book\/9781137575913?utm_source=Staff+bulletin+recipients&amp;utm_campaign=8c65145167-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_03_16&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_9712f86811-8c65145167-120627937\">Dance Leadership: Theory into Practice<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>by Jane Alexandre (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)<\/p>\n<p>This \u201cwhat is\u201d\u2014rather than \u201chow to\u201d\u2014 volume proposes a theoretical framework for understanding dance leadership for dancers, leaders, and students of both domains, illustrated by portraits of leaders in action in India, South Africa, UK, US, Brazil and Canada.<\/p>\n<p>The book asks: What is dance leadership? Who practices it, in what setting, and why?<\/p>\n<p>Through performance, choreography, teaching, writing, organizing and directing, the dance leaders portrayed herein instigate change and forward movement. Illustrating all that is unique about leading in dance, and by extension the other arts, readers can engage with such wide-ranging issues as: Does the practice of leading require followers? How does one individual\u2019s dance movement act on others in a group? What does \u2018social engagement\u2019 mean for artists? Is the pursuit of art and culture a human right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Benjamin, Lecturer in Theatre and Performance, is one of six international dance artists featured in a new publication entitled Dance Leadership: Theory into Practice\u00a0by Jane Alexandre (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) This \u201cwhat is\u201d\u2014rather than \u201chow to\u201d\u2014 volume proposes a theoretical framework for understanding dance leadership for dancers, leaders, and students of both domains, illustrated by&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/2017\/03\/28\/plymouth-university-researcher-adam-benjamin-featured-in-new-international-book\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Adam Benjamin featured in new book about international dance leadership<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":166,"featured_media":2214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[57,36,73,730,15,422,490],"class_list":["post-2213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-adam-benjamin","tag-book","tag-dance","tag-palgrave","tag-pep","tag-publication","tag-theatre-and-performing-arts","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2213"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2221,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213\/revisions\/2221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}