This paper investigates the naming conventions and identities of practitioners working within Australian Arts education with a view to test the suitability of the term Teaching Artist, an identity ...

Lower extremities (LE) play a fundamental role in ballet technique, yet they are not often assessed as thoroughly as other areas of the body in the youngest pre-professional dancers. The aim of thi...

Published in Research in Dance Education (Vol. 24, No. 4, 2023)

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a lifelong neurodevelopmental condition characterized by social/communication challenges and restrictive or repetitive behaviours. While motor challenges are not c...

We aimed to examine whether the changes in neuromuscular strength indices and balance affect the gait patterns of five fundamental ballet techniques performed on a single leg after 8-weeks of stren...

The purpose of the research was to explore competitive dancers’ experiences of harm in the dance environment with a focus placed on dancers’ social identities. Limited attention has been given to i...

Pre-professional ballet dancers are at high risk for musculoskeletal injuries, some of which are not reported and are self-managed by dancers themselves. Understanding the decisions that adolescent...

In the present article, the first section recapitulates my ‘figuration’ philosophy of dance, the ‘dancing-with’ interpretive method derived therefrom, and my previous application of figuration to s...

This study investigated the effect of reciprocal, self-check, and command TS on the learning and dance performance of Greek traditional dances. A total of 128 university students, were divided into...

Ronggeng performing art is preserved as one of Indonesian cultural heritages. However, this art is negatively stigmatized and associated with liquor, gambling, and prostitution. Through the novel R...

The purpose of the study is to investigate the impact of innovative management strategies on dance teacher performance. The target group in this study consisted of dance teachers and associated man...

Published in Research in Dance Education (Vol. 24, No. 3, 2023)

ABSTRACT Given the social circumstances arising from the COVID-19 health crisis, we developed a participatory pedagogic methodology involving body experimentation and performing arts to explore ‘body memory’ as a tool for redefining new affective bonds and adaptation processes within urban environments and public spaces. This experimental methodology, addressed to community participation, involves

ABSTRACT The unique feature of our journey is the real-life 24-7 experiences of Parkinson’s, rather than the snapshot of what is the focus of some research. The story captures achievements and differences which can be made to people’s lives. Our now new friends. (N=10) who live with and without Parkinson’s join virtually to become involved in the dance and physical activity sessions. The findings highlight

ABSTRACT This work explored the dynamics of trait emotional intelligence (EI) and dispositional flow in a sample of ballet dancers since research on these topics is scarce in the artistic domain. This study analyses whether EI correlates and predicts flow experiences and whether dancers’ experience influences their levels of EI and flow. One hundred and fifty-two Portuguese ballet dancers, mostly females

ABSTRACT This article investigates the characteristics of BA dance students’ learning experiences in contemporary dance techniques, discussed in relation to teaching approaches in a continuum between teacher-centring and student-centring. The empirical material consists of 11 students’ logbooks and interviews. The results elucidate the complex connections between the student’s learning activities,

ABSTRACT The Asante people of Ghana bear rich and distinct cultures, which help place the nation on the globe. Albeit, a number of traditional dances as an aspect of Asante culture have been endangered or are getting endangered due to them not being well communicated within their cultural contexts to audiences, their dance elements being less known and less performed. This study was therefore conducted

ABSTRACT Flamenco dance is emblematic of southern Spain. Its performance uniquely combines dancing, singing, and guitar playing. Improvisation differentiates it from other dances and this requires communication codes so that performers remain synchronised. The communication codes are: ‘llamada’, a signal to start singing; ‘remate’, for ending a section; ‘subida’, for speeding up the rhythm; and ‘desplante’

ABSTRACT The thigh, hip and lower back have been common sights of injuries in Bharatanatyam dancers. The study investigates the relationship between muscular activity levels of the leg and pelvic posture during araimandi. Electromyography(EMG) and postural analysis were used to measure the activation in three selected muscle groups(Quadriceps, Hamstrings and Gluteus Maximus) and the pelvic posture

ABSTRACT The global challenges of our time embody a powerful impetus for implementing digital solutions in the educational systems of different fields and levels. Of particular interest here is choreography teaching, which encompasses a set of traditions and principles. The purpose of this paper was to investigate the importance and effect of using innovative pedagogical solutions with respect to choreography

Published in Research in Dance Education (Vol. 24, No. 2, 2023)

ABSTRACT The Covid-19 pandemic impacted dance practice in African communities, which at the time were still grappling with building technological infrastructure and resources to advance dance education, research, scholarship, and practice. How did the dance teachers and students in environments with less developed information and communication technological (ICT) infrastructure in African countries

ABSTRACT Experiences, perceptions, and definitions of health and wellbeing (H&W) were explored among 10 dance students (six women, four men; mean age = 21 years ±1.26) in higher education (HE). A qualitative case study was conducted using semi-structured interviews, including questions on lifestyle, health provision, and environment. Inductive thematic analysis revealed that dancers defined H&W as

ABSTRACT Each week in Australia, hundreds of people attend classes in international folk dancing (IFD), eagerly learning and practising dances from around the globe. The existence of FDA and the popularity of IFD must be accorded to André van de Plas from The Netherlands, who visited Australia every year for over three decades. This article examines the practice of IFD in Australia, analysing recreational

ABSTRACT In this article I inquire into choreographic-pedagogic stop-moments, identified through bodily felt intensities and affects, in the Bird project. The Bird project was a collaborative dance project that took place in an elementary school in Norway in 2020, where, as a choreographer-researcher-teacher, I cooperated with the teachers and pupils in the third grade. I bring out my own doubts and

ABSTRACT Drawing on the enactive account and the 4E’s approach to cognition, we discuss here how both physical play and dance improvisational practice can be seen as (participatory) sense-making processes. In this article, we will specifically focus on children’s physical play and dance improvisation since both activities are open-ended, creative and call immediate attention for the kinetic/tactile-kinesthetic

ABSTRACT Over the past two years, our global dance community has faced many challenges while coming to terms with a health crisis that drastically altered home and working lives. In this article, we focus on how dance scholars can work collaboratively during extended periods of isolation. We begin by overviewing the drastically altered environment of dance education during pandemic, then direct our

ABSTRACT This article presents results from a project on dance and music with 16 dancers at different levels of experience who worked with a choreographer for an upcoming performance. The focus was on the participating dancers’ perceptions of how they, through improvisational models, created movement in small groups, communicated these dance sequences to each other and how they perceived these instructions

ABSTRACT Psychobehavioral skills are acknowledged as useful for coping within talent development pathways, but the idiosyncratic nature of challenge experienced across individuals makes it hard to evaluate their use and efficacy. This study aimed to explore the impact of a generic stressor, the COVID-19 lockdowns, on dancers within a talent development pathway. We were interested in how dancers were

ABSTRACT South Korea has 33 dance departments in tertiary education institutions around the country, with only one of the schools having a choreography major. This study endeavours to bring awareness to the value and necessity of choreography education in nurturing creative choreographers for the dance industry in South Korea and to reject two assumptions: 1) choreographers are born and not made, and

Published in Research in Dance Education (Vol. 24, No. 3, 2023)

ABSTRACT The knowledge base required for teaching includes pedagogical content knowledge, whose purpose is to integrate student knowledge, content, context, and the general pedagogy to transform the content into teachable knowledge that is tangible and understandable for the students. That considered, this essay intends to propose a theoretical-conceptual framework for the knowledge base for teaching

ABSTRACT This is a systematic search and a narrative review of school-based Creative Dance (CreaDa) programs and intervention studies in elementary education. Advanced searches with PRISMA methodology resulted in 19 eligible studies, which were further analyzed based on the GREET checklist criteria. The main categories of the extracted data were the description of programs and interventions, their

ABSTRACT This article aims to reveal the challenges of working mothers in dance academia in respect to balancing of teaching, service, administration, and research demands and parenting of young teens. Through a conversation, the authors aim to find solidarity in our similar situations in different geographic locations by exchanging ideas regrading practicalities and demands of dance academia in relationship

Published in Research in Dance Education (Vol. 24, No. 1, 2023)

ABSTRACT This paper focuses on the working relationship between the director of an HE institute in the UK, and an artist-researcher navigating the higher education dance working environment and motherhood. The paper draws on personal experiences, sections labelled vignettes that highlight a tension faced by the individual and reflects on how the director of a HE institution in the UK facilitated egalitarian

ABSTRACT During the COVID-19 pandemic, pregnant people and mothers in the United States have faced untenable conditions as they grapple with simultaneous professional and personal demands without access to adequate financial, career, or caregiving support. These simultaneous demands are not new to women, but the pandemic set inequities between working mothers and childfree workers and between women

ABSTRACT The image of dancing into the spotlight alludes to glamor, which clouds the artists’ back-breaking work and practice. Meanwhile, there is scant research on the lived experiences of professional female dancers. To address this gap, this study explores the lived experiences of eight Vietnamese professional female dancers who are married with children. The findings reveal their enormous challenges

Published in Research in Dance Education (Vol. 24, No. 1, 2023)

Published in Research in Dance Education (Vol. 24, No. 1, 2023)

ABSTRACT There is a paucity of research into female-identifying dancers as parents, how the transition from dancer to pregnancy to parent is managed, and whether and how a dancing parent can maintain a career in dance. This paper shares findings from a qualitative interview study with (n = 30), predominantly female professional contemporary dancers that have become parents and are working within the

ABSTRACT Canada’s aging population highlights the critical need to identify physical activity programming that has the potential to positively contribute to one’s aging journey. Dancing is one type of physical activity that can offer the opportunity to be with others, move to music, and encourage creativity and personal expression. Dance instructors may influence older adults’ experiences with, and

ABSTRACT This study examines the professional developmental process of high school students in Israel who chose dance as an enhanced subject. Dance is recognized as a field of study for matriculation exams taken before graduation, along with programs in math, physics, history, literature, and other traditional subjects. Online questionnaires were sent to students in the fifty-four existing programs

ABSTRACT Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) typically have difficulties developing social skills and understanding the behavioral norms expected of them. As mainstreaming continues to expand, and many adolescents with ASD are integrated into regular schools, their education focuses on social and academic skills relevant for school life, but these are not sufficient for day-to-day functioning

ABSTRACT The present study aims to do a comparative analysis of health-related components of physical fitness and adiposity levels between Kathak dancers and non-dancers. Participants included 206 female Kathak dancers and 235 physically active controls, ages 18–45 years. Participants performed handgrip strength test and modified push up test for assessing upper body muscular strength and endurance

ABSTRACT This research aimed to investigate adult ballet education in Korea by observing its relationship with positive psychology attributes. Participants included 230 adult females who received over three years of adult ballet education with the Vaganova Method, which highlights artistry. The questionnaire in this study related to how ballet education pertains to the positive psychology of Seligman

ABSTRACT Choosing a Teaching Style is an important decision which affects the different elements of teaching, as well as the students, both men and women. Consequently, this study aims at determining the differences that exist in the emotional intelligence skills in learning dance depending on students’ sex, analysing the preferences for the Command Teaching Style or for the Problem Solving Teaching

Published in Research in Dance Education (Vol. 23, No. 4, 2022)

ABSTRACT This research is part of a postdoctoral research on early childhood teachers’ training, through community dance, in the midst of pandemic. The aim was to discover and utilize creative approaches remotely, due to the confinement established as a measurement for the pandemic, in Greece. Art-based research was used as methodology, in order to allow creative practices and multimodal formats to

ABSTRACT Physical education (PE), and specifically the teaching area of dance, has been identified as an important pedagogical setting within which young people develop creativity. Creativity is thus an important aspect of schooling. Several studies have suggested however, that dance is seldom taught in PE in ways that acknowledge creative aspects of movement learning, and that students in physical

ABSTRACT Nowadays, in a society where the rate of mental health issues and imbalances is increasing, dance is acknowledged as a tool for emotional management. This study aimed to carry out a systematic review of the scientific articles published on dance and emotions, to analyse their themes and evolution. This review was carried out by the statistical analysis of textual data and their means, using

ABSTRACT Private dance studios exist outside the scope of K-12 institutions in the United States and serve students within their local communities. Many of them strive to benefit underrepresented groups fthrough community engagement initiatives. This mixed-method study scrutinizes the various community engagement practices of private dance studios through a grounded theory approach to investigate the

ABSTRACT Using an autoethnographic approach, this article focuses on the experiences of two male dance educators/researchers living with/through terminal cancer. Autoethnographers analyze their ‘unique life experiences in the context of the social and cultural institutions that have shaped the world the researcher inhabits.’ Drawn from a larger research project, Dance Educators Living With/Through

ABSTRACT This study aimed to map the international scientific literature on the intersection between ballet and gender and sexuality through a systematic review and bibliometric analysis. The Scopus and Web of Science (WoS) databases were searched. First, the term ‘ballet’ combined with ‘gender’ was searched, and then a separate search was conducted using the term ‘ballet’ combined with ‘sexuality

ABSTRACT Nowadays, in the times of the popularity and commercialization of dance, special attention should be paid to the situation of dance teachers. In different countries there are different possibilities to become a dance teacher. Such qualifications can be obtained at both sports and artistic universities. It is also possible to take up courses organized by national organizations, societies and

ABSTRACT This study examines the pedagogical strategies of a dance instructor working with older adults in a virtual asynchronous community dance class, and the ways in which dance instruction influences older adults’ physical literacy. Physical literacy is a multidimensional framework which helps us understand meaningful and motivating physical activity experiences across the lifespan. Instructors

ABSTRACT Thai classical dance has earned recognition across the world, however, attention on the health of dancers has not been well implemented. This study aimed to report on the prevalence of musculoskeletal injuries in Thai classical dancers. The descriptive cross-sectional survey study was implemented. A total of 356 (amateur = 221, professional = 135) Thai classical dancers participated (male = 111

Published in Research in Dance Education (Vol. 23, No. 3, 2022)

ABSTRACT Over the last two decades, the growth and development of the fields of Dance Science and Pedagogy, as practice, research and area of study, has changed the landscape of 21st Century training and performance. The aim of this paper is to stimulate thinking and initiate dialogue between practitioners and academics in the exploration of new solutions to ongoing pedagogical tensions within the

ABSTRACT This article examines how dance artists with extensive experience with The Cultural Schoolbag (TCS), a national programme for bringing the arts into schools, convey their rationale for working in TCS. Previous research has found that the artists’ rationale for doing TCS-art is far from established and agreeing on what TCS-art should be or become is inherently difficult. The goal that TCS-art