ESSAYS, BOOKS & ARTICLES
Papers and Articles on Dance and Disability
SPARKed Educators Guide – Story Theme: The Frontiers of Dance/ Subject: AXIS Dance Company/ Discipline: Dance - Download Guide
Under The Radar: Discovering our Sameness, by Jess Curtis, “In Dance”, March 2007
Ways of Looking: Disability as Ability, by Mary Brennan, “In Dance”, March 2007
Not Laughing, But Dancing, by Claire Cunningham, “In Dance”, March 2007
Grace: Revisiting a Definition, by Maren Witte, “In Dance”, March 2007
"Access and Excellence" papers from conference on integrated dance training in further and higher education. Hereward College, 26 March 1995.
Benjamin, Adam. "In Search of Integrity," Dance Theatre Journal 10:4 (Autumn 1993): 42-46.
Benjamin, Adam. "Able to Dance," Animated (Spring 1994): 4-5.
BENT. "Dancing toward the light," an interview with Tom Metz and Michael Perrault on their collaboration with AXIS Dance Company in 1996. (July 2000)
Contact Quarterly 1: 17 (Winter 1992) , "Dancing with Different Populations".
"Dance and Integration" transcript from panel discussion, Ballroom Blitz, South Bank Centre, 1 August 1994.
Gale, Maggie. "Dancing for the Blind or with the Blind? New Directions in Movement Research," New Theatre Quarterly 9:34 (May 1993): 159-171.
Hill, Catherine. "Shall we dance," WE magazine, July/August 99, Vol.3 (4). Letter to the editor regarding this article by Uli Schmitz (AXIS Dance Company.)
Paxton, Steve and Anne Kilcoyne. "On Braille in the Body: An Account of the Touchdown Dance Integrated Workshops with the Visually Impaired and the Sighted," Dance Research 6:1 (Spring 1993): 3-51.
Schmitz, Uli. "Ways to Dance" article written for the 1998 Internet Conference on Art & Disability, organized by the National Arts and Disability Center, UCLA.
Tomkins, Alysoun. "Dance and Physical Disability: Therapy or Artistry," unpublished paper, November 1992.
Turner, Jane. "Whose Body Is It Anyway?" DICE issue 3 (April/May 1988): 2-3.
Childrens Books on Dance
McMahon, Patricia, Dancing Wheels, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston 2000.
Ancona, George. Lets Dance, Morrow Junior Books, 1998.
Goss, Belov Ruth. If You Were a Ballet Dancer, Dial Press, 1979.
Jonas, Ann. Color Dance, Harper Collins Children's Book Group, 1989.
Jones, Bill T. and S. Kuklin. Dance, Hyperion Books for Children, 1998.
Varriale, Jim. Kids Dance, Dutton Childrens Books, 1999.
Childrens Books on Disability
Fiction
Baskin, Barbara and K. Harris. More Notes from a Different Drummer, RR Bowker, 1984. Annotated bibliography of fictional works about disability for juveniles ages 5-18.
Gackenbach, Dick. A Bag Full of Pups, Clarion Books, 1981.
Rabe, Berniece. Balancing Girl, Dutton, 1981.
Radley, Gail. Nothing Stays the Same Forever, Crown, 1981. (Ages 9-12)
Schaefer, Lola. Some Kids Use Wheelchairs, Pebble Books, 2001.
Slepian, Jan. The Alfred Summer, Macmillan, 1980. (Ages 9-12)
Thomas, Pat. Dont Call Me Special , Barrons Educationl Series,2002.
Nonfiction
Brown, Tricia. Someone Special, Just Like You, Henry Holt, 1984.
Carillo, Ann Cupolo and K. Corbett, V. Lewis. No More Stares, Berkeley, CA: Disability Rights, Education and Defense Fund Inc., 1982. (Ages 8-15)
Friedberg, Joan and J. Mullins, A. Sukiennik. Accept Me As I Am, RR Bowker, 1985. Annotated bibliography of nonfictional works about disability for juveniles 5-18.
Lester, Helen. Author: A True Story, Houghton Mifflin, 1997.
Rosenberg, Maxine. My Friend Leslie, Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Books, 1983.
Teachers Books on Dance & Disability
SPARKed Educators Guide – Story Theme: The Frontiers of Dance/ Subject: AXIS Dance Company/ Discipline: Dance - Download Guide
Albright, Ann Copper, Choreographing Difference, Wesleyan Univ. Press, 1997.
Benjamin, Adam, Making An Entrance, Routledge, 2002.
Fahy & King, Peering Behind the Curtain, Routledge, 2002.
Gilbert, A.G. Creative Dance for All Ages, AAHPERD, Reston, VA, 1992.
Humphrey, Doris, The Art of Making Dances, Princeton Book Co. 1959/1987.
Useful for high school dance/theater teachers
Kogan, Sheila. Step by Step: a complete movement education curriculum from Preschool to 6th Grade, Front row Experience, Byron , CA, 1982.
Lloyd, Marcia. Adventures in Creative Movement Activities, Eddie Bowers Publishing, Inc. Dubuque, CA 1998.
Reedy, Patricia, Body, Mind, Spirit, Berkeley, 2003.
Rowen, Betty, Dance and Grow, Princeton Book Co., 1994.
Shapiro, Joseph, No Pity, Times Books, 1993.
Web Sites
National Information Center for Children & Youth with Disabilities