MP28: Evolving Practices in Embodiment Education and Performance
About
This working group provides a forum for movement educators to exchange pedagogy and artistic practices. Themes of common interest include: decolonizing dance education, embodiment and social change, improvisation as research, community engaged dance.
Open to New People
Active since: 2023
- University of Rochester
- Hamilton College
- Hobart & William Smith Colleges
- Skidmore College
Collaborative Goals
- To build a network of central NY dance educators and educators in allied fields working with movement and embodiment.
- To share ideas, pedagogy and artistic practices through peer exchange.
- To bring artist-educators for workshops, infusing our region with new ideas (and providing disciplinary professional development rarely available in central NY).
- To research and share best practices in articulated themes of common interest, specifically: To re-envision and revise curriculum (prioritizing inclusivity, interdisciplinarity, cultural competence, and application) through: discourse across institutions, collective research, and working with guest facilitators at the forefront of decolonizing dance education and evolving practices in dance performance.
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