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Fostering Agency and Artistry in Dancers
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Chavasse, Amy – Arts Education Policy Review, 2015
Returning to the classroom each year is an act of radical repositioning. Even as I return to the knowledge, experience, and accumulated memories of my teaching and creative practice, I look to ways to restructure how I deliver information and search for new methodologies of learning. Acknowledging the fluid conditions that define teaching movement…
Descriptors: Dance Education, Constructivism (Learning), Empowerment, College Instruction
A Case Study: Review of an Indigenous Digital Resource as a Potential Medium for Dance Undergraduate Teaching and Learning: "Cassie's Story: Dyan Ngal" (Wiradjuri for "Fix Me")
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Jefferson-Buchanan, Rachael – JTRM in Kinesiology, 2015
The following article comprises a case study that considers the potential for an Indigenous digital resource to be used within a dance undergraduate context. In this manner, suggestions for dance pedagogy and practice are offered in relation to the Indigenous Education Strategy at Charles Sturt University, together with a university digital…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Dance Education, Undergraduate Study, Indigenous Populations
Dynamic Fuzzy Logic-Based Quality of Interaction within Blended-Learning: The Rare and Contemporary Dance Cases
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Dias, Sofia B.; Diniz, José A.; Hadjileontiadis, Leontios J. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2014
The combination of the process of pedagogical planning within the Blended (b-) learning environment with the users' quality of interaction ("QoI") with the Learning Management System (LMS) is explored here. The required "QoI" (both for professors and students) is estimated by adopting a fuzzy logic-based modeling approach,…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Distance Education, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
Toward a Psychology of Responses to Dance Performance
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Gervasio, Amy Herstein – Research in Dance Education, 2012
This paper applies contemporary principles in cognitive and social psychology to understand how Western ballet and modern dance is imbued with emotional and narrative meaning by an audience. These include nine Gestalt concepts of visual form perception as well as cognitive heuristics of representativeness and availability in concept formation and…
Descriptors: Dance, Social Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Audience Response
Cultivating Presence in Movement: Student Reflections on the Practice of Feldenkrais "Awareness through Movement[R]" in Dance Training
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Diaz, Heidi; Chatfield, Steven J.; Cox, Jan – Journal of Dance Education, 2008
The purpose of this study was to design, implement, and evaluate an experimental course investigating the effect of Feldenkrais "Awareness Through Movement (ATM)" on students' self-image and its transference to concept related dance phrases, motif based improvisations, outside training and performance, and their daily lives. As a dancer…
Descriptors: Dance, Motion, Student Attitudes, Self Concept
A Virtual Reality Dance Training System Using Motion Capture Technology
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Chan, J. C. P.; Leung, H.; Tang, J. K. T.; Komura, T. – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2011
In this paper, a new dance training system based on the motion capture and virtual reality (VR) technologies is proposed. Our system is inspired by the traditional way to learn new movements-imitating the teacher's movements and listening to the teacher's feedback. A prototype of our proposed system is implemented, in which a student can imitate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Statistical Analysis, Control Groups