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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Dance pedagogy"”.
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Dancing Change: Embodied Cross-Currents Between Radical Dance Pedagogy and Decolonial Futures
This research project aims to articulate the dance educator’s potential in creating decolonial, ecologically-embedded futures. Applying a research-creation methodology, I look to a summer of teaching I experienced to explore Indigenous posthumanist systems of relation, theories of the rhizome and …
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See and be seen: A quality of presence. An investigation of authentic movement in creative process and performance
This dissertation investigates ways in which dancers utilise the principles of Authentic Movement within creative process and performance contexts. First, it examines theories of the body subject from a phenomenological perspective, foregrounding the body as the lived body of experience. Then, it …
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Soviet Bodies in Canadian Dancesport: Cultural Identities, Embodied Politics, and Performances of Resistance in Three Canadian Ballroom Dance Studios
… the effect of Soviet Union era indoctrination on dance pedagogy and performance at DanceSport studios run by Soviet migrants in Canada. I investigate the processes of cultural cross-pollination within this population through an analysis of first and second generation Soviet-Canadian ballroom …
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Breaking my silence as a 'trained' dancer in post-apartheid South Africa
… the ramifications of indoctrination in dance. In 2017, during my Honours Degree in Dance Studies at the University of Cape Town, I created a poster-painting with a fellow #FeesMustFall artist-activist. This poster-painting, entitled, Amputation, was introduced at UCT School of Dance' …
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Pedagogical shifts in Bharathatyam, Durban: Case studies in Durban-South Africa and Chennai-India (2019 & 2020)
… politics in South Africa and India. It discusses Dance and the beginnings of Indian Dance in South Africa, ending with reflections of Bharathanatyam pedagogy, post 1994 in South Africa. The literature review spans across Chapters Two and Three, which look broadly at critical pedagogy and expanded …
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Handle With Care: A Pedagogical Theory of Touch in Teaching Dance Technique Based on Four Case Studies
… how human touch may be used within a modern dance technique class to facilitate effective teaching and learning. This inquiry was based on two initial assumptions: (a) touch is an effective teaching and learning tool for modern dance, and (b) a modern dance technique class defines its own …
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“I Want Them to Feel Nervous”: A Case Study of Embodiment, Affect, and Emotion in Latin Dance Instruction
This dissertation explores how a Latin dance instructor engages with and embodies emotion through her teaching practices within an out-of-school, all-girls Latin dance team. Anchored in the theoretical framework of affect theory, this study investigates how an instructor’s affective presence and …