{"title":"Dance Education from Different Perspectives","authors":"Brigitte Moody","doi":"10.1080/01472526.2021.2022406","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Dance Education: A Redefinition is an investigation of dance education written by the experienced dance educator Susan R. Koff, with contributions from Ann Kipling Brown, John-Mario Sevilla, Alfdaniels Mabingo, and William S. Huntington. Koff presents and debates the hierarchical nature of dance education where dance curricula in public schools and the private dance education sector dominate the history, philosophy, and pedagogical development of dance education. The book echoes what many dance educators experience, that the confusion about what constitutes dance education has at times frustrated efforts to establish legitimate recognition of the importance of dance in any given setting. The book seeks to reframe what dance education might be, while acknowledging that definitions are restrictive, ambiguous, and influenced by many things. However, Koff sums up a core principle that informs many of the debates about definition:","PeriodicalId":42141,"journal":{"name":"DANCE CHRONICLE","volume":"45 1","pages":"113 - 117"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"DANCE CHRONICLE","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01472526.2021.2022406","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"DANCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Dance Education: A Redefinition is an investigation of dance education written by the experienced dance educator Susan R. Koff, with contributions from Ann Kipling Brown, John-Mario Sevilla, Alfdaniels Mabingo, and William S. Huntington. Koff presents and debates the hierarchical nature of dance education where dance curricula in public schools and the private dance education sector dominate the history, philosophy, and pedagogical development of dance education. The book echoes what many dance educators experience, that the confusion about what constitutes dance education has at times frustrated efforts to establish legitimate recognition of the importance of dance in any given setting. The book seeks to reframe what dance education might be, while acknowledging that definitions are restrictive, ambiguous, and influenced by many things. However, Koff sums up a core principle that informs many of the debates about definition:
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For dance scholars, professors, practitioners, and aficionados, Dance Chronicle is indispensable for keeping up with the rapidly changing field of dance studies. Dance Chronicle publishes research on a wide variety of Western and non-Western forms, including classical, avant-garde, and popular genres, often in connection with the related arts: music, literature, visual arts, theatre, and film. Our purview encompasses research rooted in humanities-based paradigms: historical, theoretical, aesthetic, ethnographic, and multi-modal inquiries into dance as art and/or cultural practice. Offering the best from both established and emerging dance scholars, Dance Chronicle is an ideal resource for those who love dance, past and present. Recently, Dance Chronicle has featured special issues on visual arts and dance, literature and dance, music and dance, dance criticism, preserving dance as a living legacy, dancing identity in diaspora, choreographers at the cutting edge, Martha Graham, women choreographers in ballet, and ballet in a global world.