Journal article
Searching for the yet unknown: Writing and dancing as incantatory practices
Journal of university teaching & learning practice, Vol.18(7), pp.195-213
01/01/2021
DOI: 10.53761/1.18.7.12
Abstract
As two ballet dancers and university educators, we began this collaborative research with a shared belief in ballet and writing as liberatory practices and a desire to confront pedagogies that rely on intimidation. Both we and our students have experienced ballet and writing classes that rely on audit-and-surveillance, and we sought to foster individuality, value differences, and cultivate agency through multimodal approaches in our ballet technique, history, and dance studies courses. During the spring semester of 2021, the history and dance studies courses were online and asynchronous; the ballet classes met in a 'hybrid' model: classes were held in person, with students given the option to take class via Zoom either synchronously or asynchronously. Through interviews and analysis, we found praxes that ignite curiosity and motivation by drawing from definitions of writing and dancing as incantatory practices. Notably, this is the first research that takes a capacious view of 'ballet pedagogy' to include history, writing, technique, and dance studies courses. Ultimately, we hope these findings support exploratory and multimodal teaching, reinforce connections among language, empowerment, and pedagogy, encourage students and educators to collaboratively challenge current practices, and motivate administrators to rethink university structures that replicate the audit-and-surveillance practices of certain ballet and writing pedagogies.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Searching for the yet unknown: Writing and dancing as incantatory practices
- Creators
- Kate Mattingly - University of UtahKristin Marrs - Univ Iowa, Iowa City, IA USA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of university teaching & learning practice, Vol.18(7), pp.195-213
- Publisher
- Univ Wollongong
- DOI
- 10.53761/1.18.7.12
- ISSN
- 1449-9789
- eISSN
- 1449-9789
- Number of pages
- 18
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/01/2021
- Academic Unit
- Dance
- Record Identifier
- 9984399626102771
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