Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/15290824.2022.2095792
Alison E. Leonard
Children and youth are undoubtedly the future of dance education. And, while the future is always unknown, little did I know or even fathom four years ago when I began thinking about the topic for this 2022 Special Issue, that this future issue would land at such a tumultuous and cataclysmic time for our children and youth. Finding authors to write about their work with children and youth in dance education already comes with inherent challenges since many involved in teaching this age group do not have publishing as part of their job descriptions. Amid a global pandemic going on its 3 year, in-person teaching and research, in many instances, had to stop and were slow to resume due to health protocols and increased demands on educators. Getting by day-to-day, particularly in school and classroom settings, has been a challenge for most educators and researchers. Therefore, putting out a call for envisioning a future for dance education for children and youth presented a complex challenge. Then, we add to the complexity the confluence of political and social factions and unrest, economic tension, censorship in schools, increasing stress on the teaching workforce, gun violence (particularly in US schools and communities), and continued social inequality and oppression spurring ongoing racial, gender, and LGBTQ+ justice movements onto the present landscape of education for children and youth. The compounding impacts of the multitude of crises facing children and youth make the future of dance education seem rather grim, not to mention the ever increasing digital and technological shifts and barrage of social media that further complicate this landscape. When we look to the teaching and learning of dance for children and youth in PK-12 schools, private studios, dance organizations, and communities, we cannot overlook this current social, political, economic, and public health context globally. While this Special Issue was never intended to be specifically about the global COVID-19 pandemic’s effect on dance education, the pandemic has undoubtedly shaped all our lives, as well as research, scholarship, teaching, and learning in dance education. Dance education, while similar in context to other arts disciplines, has also come with unique challenges and technological conundrums during the pandemic (Tariao and Yang 2021; Rugh et al. 2022). Continually, we have had to question how we teach dance, an inherently embodied and social discipline, when we cannot physically be together, or when being physically together puts us at risk. How can digital technologies be utilized creatively and effectively, while also being accessible and inclusive? The resulting and accumulated stress and fatigue of seeking to answer these questions in practice for educators has been significant (Jotkoff 2022). Classrooms and studios where children and youth experience dance education also remain spaces where social, political, and cultural norms and identities are lived, practice
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Pub Date : 2022-06-30DOI: 10.1080/15290824.2022.2084869
Shana L. Habel
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Pub Date : 2022-06-14DOI: 10.1080/15290824.2022.2075554
S. Mantillake
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Pub Date : 2022-06-13DOI: 10.1080/15290824.2022.2070915
Elizabeth A. Clendinning
{"title":"Adapting to Desa, Kala, Patra (Place, Time, Situation): Balinese Dance in American Universities","authors":"Elizabeth A. Clendinning","doi":"10.1080/15290824.2022.2070915","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15290824.2022.2070915","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37209,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Dance Education","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41319510","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-03DOI: 10.1080/15290824.2022.2070916
Kaustavi Sarkar
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Pub Date : 2022-05-10DOI: 10.1080/15290824.2022.2053688
Alfdaniels Mabingo, Kiri Avelar, Ruohan Chen, Franchesca M. Cabrera
{"title":"Solidarities of the Marginalized as Anti-racist Dance Pedagogy: Reflections on Collaborative Advocacy from Dance Educators with Connective Marginalities","authors":"Alfdaniels Mabingo, Kiri Avelar, Ruohan Chen, Franchesca M. Cabrera","doi":"10.1080/15290824.2022.2053688","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15290824.2022.2053688","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37209,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Dance Education","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43674326","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-05-03DOI: 10.1080/15290824.2022.2056185
Kaustavi Sarkar
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Pub Date : 2022-04-28DOI: 10.1080/15290824.2022.2051041
Helen Buck-Pavlick
{"title":"Empowering Metacognition Through Dance Writing and Collaborative Dance Making","authors":"Helen Buck-Pavlick","doi":"10.1080/15290824.2022.2051041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15290824.2022.2051041","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37209,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Dance Education","volume":"299 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41258517","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-04-22DOI: 10.1080/15290824.2022.2046399
Heather Trommer-Beardslee
Rabindra Nritya, and Middle Eastern and Southeast Asian dance forms (109), thereby illustrating the cultural exchange that marked the 1930s in India. Bose was also simultaneously the dancer, set and costume designer, and primary actor and choreographer, thus exemplifying the multiple factors at work in the production of film dances. Next, a study of Madhuri Dixit’s dance movements in chapter 5 becomes key not only in revealing how the identities of the “coy heroine” and the “brazen vamp” (24) were consolidated in the 1990s, but also in foregrounding the expertise of the choreographer and the collaborative experiments between the dancer and choreographer that were crucial to emerging dance techniques in the 1990s. In conclusion, Iyer’s focus on the corporeal, gestural, and visceral repertoires of dance successfully studies film in relation to cosmopolitanism, nationalism, other performing cultures such as music and designing, and multiple material and aesthetic practices. In today’s India, where Hindu fundamentalism lies at the crux of the decolonized historical narrative, works like Iyer’s benefit readers across the disciplines of performance studies, dance studies, postcolonial criticism, and film studies. Dancing Women focuses on the interconnection of multiple aesthetic, material and corporeal histories in the production of India’s popular culture, Bollywood.
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