Inclusive Dance with Deaf People: A State of Affairs

Abstract

This article presents the results of a documentary review on the investigative, pedagogical and didactic advances in the field of inclusive dance. The purpose of the review is to study related categories when considering dance teaching to deaf students, obtaining a contribution in understanding this pedagogical and didactic field. The collected data achieves a local, regional and global representation. A documentary analysis of 61 records published in this field of study was carried out, in which inclusion, dance, and inclusive dance,on deaf people were traced. From the above, problems, questions and gaps are identified in this emerging field of research. It concludes the need to establish elements for an inclusive dance didactics that is always reflective epistemologically and methodologically, contextually located; in the encounter of oneself and the other; in the possibilities of sensible, ethical, aesthetic, dialogical, and political experiences that welcome us all, being plural bodies, without exception. That is the need for a dance for everyone.