Pop Lecture: Dance Education in/and

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• Pop Lecture Dance Education in/and
• the Post-Modern
• Isabel Marques
• Presented by
• Joy Merrifield and Samantha Thornhill
• Prepared by Dr. Kay Picart

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Aims

• To examine the barrier between dance and this
  postmodern society, as discerned by Marques
• To introduce important theorists who have greatly
  influenced dance education
• To distinguish the difference between a
  discipline based and a context based dance
  education
• To discuss the dance teachers role and
  responsibility in the classroom when
  implementing context-based dance education

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Marques Question Is

• Do we really have to
• choose between becoming a teacher
• or a dancer?
• (173)

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See if you can answer thisWhy is dance
education so far removed from society?
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A term you BETTER know

• Postmodernism

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Meet Rudolf Laban

• Meet Rudolf Laban

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Express Yourself!

• What
• do you
• think Laban
• meant by
• Universality
• of
• Movement?

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What is Marques problem with this theory?
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Discussion Question Our concern Is

• Freire designed his theories to rethink the
  educational system in oppressed and/or
  multicultural societies such as Brazil.
• Therefore, how can his theories possibly apply to
  educators/educatees of privilege?

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Discussion Question(if you didnt read, then
guess!)

• What is the difference between a context-based
• dance education and a discipline-based dance
• education?

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Concluding Question

• How can Marquess context-based
• dance education help stimulate
• the interest of her dance education
• students in learning the pedagogy
• of dance education, as opposed to
• just dancing?

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Works Cited

• Marques, Isabel A. Dance Education in/and the
  Postmodern. Dance, Power, and Difference
  Critical and Feminist Perspectives on Dance
  Education. Ed. Shelly B. Shapiro. United States
  Human Kinetics Publishers, 1998.
• Internet Sites
• Pablo Freire.
• http//nlu.nl.edu/ace/Resources/Freire.html
• Rudolph Laban http//www.newlovemakepeace.demon.
  co.uk/rudolf.htm
• http//freespace.virgin.net/mark.thornton/abtlbn
  .htm