Dance Education - Fundamentally!
Dance Education is a series of articles that will focus on various aspects of the teaching-learning environment, methodology, practice and more. Bringing together varied perspectives from across regions, ideologies and styles, we hope to encourage an active dialogue about what one might consider to be one of the most significant links between the performing arts and the world at large - the teacher and the taught. Children and adults arrive at the doors of a dance class for multiple reasons. Some children have been fascinated by a performance they watched and want to perform 'just as they saw'. Some walk in to a dance class because their parents see reason to learn and hope that their wards will cultivate interest. Some adults join because it has been an unfulfilled dream or one they let go off. Reasons are of course not limited to these. While the earnest need to learn brings a smile instantly, it is worthwhile to look at what follows this grand entry to dance. What constitute...