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Dance, Professional Practice, and the Workplace: Challenges and Opportunities for Dance Professionals, Students, and Educators book cover

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Dance, Professional Practice, and the Workplace Challenges and Opportunities for Dance Professionals, Students, and Educators

Edited By Angela Pickard, Doug Risner Copyright 2020
142 Pages
by Routledge

142 Pages
by Routledge

142 Pages
by Routledge
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Originally published as a special issue of Research in Dance Education , now with an added chapter, this text acknowledges and celebrates the increasingly diverse careers and employment networks in which dance professionals and dance educators are engaged. Addressing issues and developments relating to the workplace of dance, the text explores what it means to transcend the boundary between... Read more

Introduction: Dance and Work, Special Issue

1. Embodying Precarity, Pain and Perfection: Young Dancers Commitment to the Ballet Body as Aesthetic Project

2. Gaga as Embodied Research

3. Creative and Embodied Methods to Tech Reflections and Support Students Learning

4. Rebalancing Dance Curricula Through Repurposing Black Dance Aesthetics

5. WhoLoDancE: Digital Tools and the Dance Learning Environment

6. A Delicate Balance: How Postsecondary Dance Faculty in the United States Perceive

Themselves Negotiating Responsibilities Expected for Tenure

7. Body Trouble: Sexual Harassment and Worker Abuse in Musical Theater Dance Employment

Biography

Angela Pickard is Reader in Dance Education and Subject Lead for Dance Education and Dance (BA), at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. She is also Editor in Chief for the journal Research in Dance Education.

Doug Risner is Distinguished Faculty Fellow, Professor of Dance, and Director for the MA in Dance Teaching Artistry program at Wayne State University, US.

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