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Inclusive Dance
The Story of Touchdown Dance
Katy Dymoke
Intellect Books, 2023
Personal accounts of the work of Touchdown Dance and inclusivity in dance performance projects.

Inclusive Dance offers a concise ethnography of disability arts and a historiographic overview of the field in the 1980s when many new disability arts groups emerged in the UK. It focuses in particular on the inclusive teaching modalities of Touchdown Dance, which was the work of dancer Steve Paxton and theater-maker and psychotherapist Anne Kilcoyne. It involved visually impaired and sighted adults in a dyadic movement form called Contact Improvisation. Katy Dymoke took over Touchdown Dance in 1994, and this book draws on archives, participant accounts, and personal experience to detail the work of Touchdown Dance and its effects on its participants since its founding. Three guests from Touchdown Dance contribute eyewitness accounts of the methods and performance projects.
 
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Touchdown!
Latinos Breaking Through the NFL's White Lines
Frederick Luis Aldama and Christopher González
The Ohio State University Press, 2026

An accessible, lively, and concise study of Latino participation in the NFL that is part sports history, part cultural analysis, and part love letter to those who break through color lines.

The NFL doesn’t want you to know: Latinos have been playing in the league since 1927. In Touchdown!, Frederick Luis Aldama and Christopher González tap interviews, archival research, and statistics to tell the story that generations of sports journalists have missed. They celebrate Cuban-born Lou Molinet’s leather-helmet debut, Steve Van Buren’s Hall of Fame rise, Tom Flores’s Lombardi trophies, and Jim Plunkett threading impossible passes. And they address those convergences of race, class, and athletic opportunity—such as pay-to-play youth leagues, housing segregation, legal exclusions to early citizenship, and racist stereotypes pushing Latino players away from “thinking” positions—that keep brown players on the sidelines. Part sports history, part cultural analysis, and part love letter to the those who break through color lines, Touchdown! fills a critical gap in sports literature and Latino studies and makes clear what the scoreboard has tried to erase: La cultura has been on the field the whole time.

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