1st Edition

Efficacy and the Arts Ethical, Aesthetic and Spiritual Dimensions of Dance as Art

By Martin H Blogg Copyright 2027
170 Pages 34 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Efficacy and the Arts is written in response to the findings and recommendations of contemporary arts research as an existential quest for meaning. This book is addressed to arts legislators and administrators, arts communicators and educators, not the least to performance artists and dance artists more specifically. The author addresses in depth the relationship between spirituality and... Read more

INTRODUCTION:   BACKGROUND, MOTIVATION, METHODOLOGY. PART ONE - THE ETHICAL. Chapter - ‘Pointer’ - ONE. PART TWO - THE AESTHETIC. Chapter - ‘Pointer’ - TWO. Chapter - ‘Pointer’ - THREE. Chapter - ‘Pointer’ - FOUR. Chapter - ‘Pointer’ - FIVE. Chapter - ‘Pointer’ - SIX: The Art Subject: The Process of Creation. Chapter - ‘Pointer’ - SEVEN. PART THREE - THE SPIRITUAL. Chapter - ‘Pointer’ - EIGHT. Chapter - ‘Pointer’ - NINE.

Biography

Martin H Blogg has spent a lifetime working in theatre, education and community – as a performer, director, teacher/lecturer, examiner and writer/author. He has held many positions including appointments at Leeds University, Middlesex university, Cambridge University, and Western Australia Academy of Performing Arts. He is founder of the Christian dance Company, SPRINGS, and author of Healing in the Dance and Dance and the Christian Faith: A Form of Knowing.