Dance Education: Key Concepts
Key Terms and Concepts
- standards
- benchmarks
- arts processes
- arts literacy
- dance literacy
- dance pedagogy
- media literacy
- dance education
- dance form
- dance genre
- dance learning experiences
- strand
Envisioning Dance Education
- Understand dance from multiple perspectives to gain new insights
- Recognize what a dance educator does in schools and community settings
- Relate to dance standards
- Distinguish between dancer and dance educator
- Use a model of teaching and learning in dance; components include experiences that activate learning
Defining Dance and Dance Education
- Dance and dance education are interlinked; dance supports education as artistic and educational medium
- Dance education defined as educating through dancing, making, and appreciation
- The definition is simple but contains complexity
- Dance means different things across cultures; difficult to separate dancer from dance
- Defining dance provides a basis for understanding dance education
Defining Dance
- Simple definition: the human body rhythmically moving through space and time with energy or effort
- Engages physical, mental, and spiritual attributes when performing as art, ritual, recreation, health and wellness, or expression
- A dance form initiates from movement, rhythm, content, style, aesthetics, traditions, and meanings that may be artistic, creative, social, cultural, or religious
- Designated into categories/genres: creative movement and creative dance; recreational dance (folk, cultural, social); concert dance forms; and other forms
Teaching and Learning Model in Dance
- A model of teaching and learning in dance exists to frame the process
- Components include the types of experiences that activate dance teaching and learning