Jakarta, Kartunet.com - Everyone can make movements. Every part of the body can express emotions. Therefore, dance can be a means of communication, including for people with disabilities. Sometimes physical limitations prevent someone from speaking, so dance movements can become a language to convey thoughts and feelings. Inclusive dance. This is how Danceability, an international dance company, refers to this dance genre.
Danceability promotes contemporary dance performances that combine dancers from the general public and those with disabilities in the same show. This dance genre is also often called "Mixed Ability" or integrated dance. Danceability trains dancers using improvisation techniques, where non-disabled and disabled dancers learn to move together. Danceability International continues to pursue its vision of using art as a tool to change societal perceptions of people with disabilities through performances, workshops, educational programs, teacher training, and choreography in the United States and worldwide.
DanceAbility has already conducted training programs in 37 countries, having trained over 450 people, both from the general public and those with disabilities. Alito Alessi, an international choreographer and Artistic Director of Danceability, has four principles for teaching dance to people with disabilities. The first is sensation. Move one part of the body, concentrate, and truly feel that movement.
Everyone can do this, even with different rhythms and tempos. The second principle is connection or interconnectedness. Movement is the language of communication. Third, the principle of time for movement. Slow, fast, or still movement. Everyone has different timing or moments. The last is the principle of movement design, which is how everyone can perform the movement themselves.
Stimulation comes not from music, but from within oneself, which then moves the body. No one is left feeling alone because everyone can be involved. Because it uses improvisation techniques to create movements, this dance can also be performed by wheelchair users, the visually impaired, the hearing impaired, and people with intellectual disabilities.
According to Alito, inclusive dance is not focused on people with disabilities, but on everyone. Because fundamentally, we can all do creative things together. (RR) editor: Muhammad Yesa