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A record of the work beyond the classroom — research, podcast conversations, talks, and performance documented on video.
Invited as a guest speaker on Pine Talks for a conversation about what artistic activity develops in a learner beyond the artform itself — thinking, communication, and confidence.
Watch the episodeJournal of Dance Education, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 188–193 · Taylor & Francis, 2022
AbstractDancers in India come from a background that focuses on performance and are trained to teach the way they were taught. When such dancers join a K–12 space as dance educators, they need to find new ways of teaching dance and movement. The teaching strategies employed in a dance studio, institute, or under a guru vary immensely from the strategies employed in a school. This article is a beginning into identifying some accessible and culturally relevant teaching practices that may help a dance educator establish connections between students' personal experiences and their classroom content in K–12 spaces. This is being written at a time when the country is witnessing a paradigm shift in its education system leading to an increase in demand for dance educators in the K–12 spaces because of India's 2020 "The New Education Policy." The hope is that this article empowers future dance educators to find and document their experiences.
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