Dance Education - Crises mode
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. The most visible upheaval that the pandemic brought on in the world of performing arts was 'performance'. With a pause forced on live performances, some did move to digital platforms to perform and share their art with audiences. However one soon realised that dance for the screen was very different from dance for a live in-person audience. Also, for many performers who depended on live performance for sustenance, the angst of an unpredictable future is something that brought them and their families into deep crises. That the arts community and the community ...