DANCE
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DANCE(ch)ARTS. A FRAMEWORK FOR DANCE EDUCATION TODAY
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Long term research project
Promotor: CORPoREAL
In recent years, both our society and the field of contemporary dance have changed to such an extent that dance educators are required to critically rethink traditional teaching methodologies. Communication, attitudes, expectations, and personal ambitions have all evolved and there is a necessity to develop a range of personal skills that supports the diversity in our society as well as dance-specific skills.
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DANCE(ch)ARTS is the outcome of extensive research by Natalie Gordon and resulted in a practical guide for all teachers of dance, for all ages, abilities, and levels. This handbook provides a framework for dance education aimed at training today’s dance students. Its ideas are transferable across the many disciplines and styles that dance embraces.
DANCE(ch)ARTS is published in both Dutch and English
The DANCEchARTS tables are a work by Natalie Gordon and Caroline D'Haese and the result of their collaborative research.
Natalie Gordon
researcher
Natalie Gordon is co-artistic director of the Bachelor dance and Educational Master dance programmes at the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp in Belgium. She trained at the University of Roehampton in London, took advanced notator training at the Labanotation Institute at the University of Surrey and qualified as a Certified Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analyst in the Integrated Movement Studies programme based at the University of Utah, USA. Natalie is a co-director of Retina Dance Company and previously managed and notated works of Random Dance/Wayne McGregor. Her ongoing research is concerned with teaching methodologies and the role and development of vocabulary within contemporary dance education.
Caroline D'Haese
researcher
Since studying dance and choreography at The London Contemporary Dance School, The California Institute of the Arts and the Belgian Higher Institute for Dance in (now RCA Belgium), Caroline D’Haese (BE) has worked in Belgium and abroad as a dance artist.
She cooperates with artists from different disciplines for and with various target groups. Her heart and expertise lies in improvisation and composition and working with original or live composed music.
She became lecturer for this subject among others, at the Royal Conservatoire in Antwerp since 2005. Here she also co-developed the vision behind Master Dance program and was core member of the dance staff and student mentor. Between 2016 and 2020 together with Natalie Gordon, she has been researching the role of the use of language in dance education as well as evaluation processes in art education. Since 12 years she is a performer with Reckless Sleepers Company. Currently she develops a practice with the t a s t b a a r collective that balances between art and care, offering artistic rituals for individuals.