Pedagogies of Dance

Catalog description

This course will prepare MFA candidates to teach dance technique, performance and other embodied pedagogies to adults/young adults in a college, university, or community setting. Students will critically analyze historical pedagogical materials from a range of approaches/philosophical platforms. Contemporary analyses of embodied pedagogy will help us interrogate questions of agency, power dynamics in the teacher/student relationship, and our personal blind spots as characterized by bell hooks. Through this ongoing reflective process, students will create tools of self-analysis concerning their teaching and its effects.