Incorporating Balinese dance into American college curricula provides artistic and cultural benefits for students. However, careful consideration is required to fit its instruction within institutional frameworks in ways that meet the needs of students and local communities alike. This article, which is based on a decade of ethnographic research,…

The article analyses the current prospects for the use of Internet technologies in the area of study 'Choreography and Dance' in the field of higher education and professional e-Learning. The work aims to determine how students studying 'Choreography and Dance' perceive the impact of online education on the formation of subject-specific…

Dance faculty members come from a variety of backgrounds, which lead to varied knowledge bases and varied teaching practices. More information is needed about the current pedagogical practices of higher education dance faculty. This study sought to provide a description of four faculty members' pedagogical approaches to a dance technique class in…

This essay discusses issues of cultural difference in dance studies and presents specific pedagogical strategies for engaging the students' embodied knowledge as a research tool in both historical and cross-cultural investigations. (Contains 2 notes.)

This paper argues that traditional African dance can develop fitness and health particularly for those interested in both health and African culture. A discussion of fitness concludes that this quality enables the body to perform physical activities with greater efficiency and that all the qualities commonly found in notions of fitness are found…

The author has spent six years teaching dance and movement to grades pre-kindergarten through fourth at an independent school in New York City. For five of those years, the author has had the privilege of hosting student teachers from New York University's Dance Education Program. Although the author has reflected on what the student teachers may…