Designing Embodied Education in Dance

Project title:

Designing Embodied Education in Dance

[This will] further evolve, the research…on designing, embodied, education in dance…[with] diverse perspectives from [various] geographical, environmental, socio-political, and economic contexts.”

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Project proposal:

The proposed project brings together dance educators, educational leaders, scholars and artists from Mexico, United States, Ireland, United Kingdom, Netherlands and Germany, for the first in-person meeting of the Designing Embodied Education in Dance network (DEED).

The project consists of two phases:

1. A three-day research meeting taking place at the University of Roehampton will allow network members to synthesise their findings and further evolve the research of their collaborative, online exchange on designing embodied education in dance, which has been ongoing since 2019. The team will facilitate workshops, culminating in a CRACE research exchange event allowing for sharing and reflection with a wider audience. PG Dance students will participate throughout, representing the perspective of the student voice.

2. Dissemination of the key principles and practices will be shared via a dedicated research website serving as a platform for broader discourse on embodied solutions for, the much-desired, reform of dance education at tertiary level (BA, MA, MFA, PhD). Since research on the topic is scarce, the project will be a novel contribution to educational and dance research specifically, and offer diverse perspectives from the geographical, environmental, socio-political and economic contexts the network members are operating in.

Photo by University of Roehampton.

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