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Title Dance, professional practice, and the workplace : challenges and opportunities for dance professionals, students, and educators / edited by Angela Pickard and Doug Risner
Published New York, NY : Routledge, 2020
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Description 1 online resource (vi, 132 pages)
Series Routledge research in education
Routledge research in education.
Contents Embodying precarity, pain, and perfection : young dancers' commitment to the ballet body as aesthetic project / Angela Pickard -- Gaga as embodied research / Andrew Sanger -- Creative and embodied methods to teach reflections and support students' learning / Phaedra Petsilas, Jennifer Leigh, Nicole Brown, and Catriona Blackburn -- Rebalancing dance curricula through repurposing black dance aesthetics / Ayo Walker -- WhoLoDancE : Digital tools and the dance learning environment / Rosemary E. Cisneros, Kathryn Stamp, Sarah Whatley, and Karen Wood -- A delicate balance : how postsecondary education dance faculty in the United States perceive themselves negotiating responsibilities expected for tenure / Ali Duffy -- Body trouble : sexual harassment and worker abuse in musical theater dance employment / Eric Kaufman
Summary Originally published as a special issue of Research in Dance Education, now with an added chapter, this text acknowledges and celebrates the increasingly diverse careers and employment networks in which dance professionals and dance educators are engaged. Addressing issues and developments relating to the workplace of dance, the text explores what it means to transcend the boundary between dance as passion, and dance as employment. Chapters explore challenges of professional practice including limitations on access, precarity, bodily risk, gender inequality, and sexual harassment, and challenge the status quo to offer readers new ways of thinking about dance, and how this might translate into professional practice and work. Ultimately celebrating the passion which motivates dancers to embark on a professional career, and highlighting the elation and joy which such employment can bring, this volume encourages dance professionals, students, and educators to imagine things differently and develop teaching approaches, curricula, work places, and communities which capitalise on the diversity and dedication of individuals in the field. This text will be of great interest to graduate and postgraduate students, researchers, academics, professionals in the field of Dance, Dance Education, Choreography and related art forms, Curriculum studies, and Sociology of Education
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Angela Pickard is Reader in Dance Education and Subject Lead for Dance Education and Dance (BA), at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. She is also Editor in Chief for the journal Research in Dance Education. Doug Risner is Distinguished Faculty Fellow, Professor of Dance, and Director for the MA in Dance Teaching Artistry program at Wayne State University, US
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 14, 2020)
Subject Dance -- Vocational guidance.
Dance in education.
EDUCATION / Professional Development
Dance -- Vocational guidance
Dance in education
Form Electronic book
Author Pickard, Angela, editor.
Risner, Douglas S., editor.
ISBN 1000030415
9780367822071
0367822075
9781000030402
1000030407
9781000030419