Dancing after homelessness Fortin, Sylvie
Research in dance education,
01/2022, Letnik:
23, Številka:
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Journal Article
Recenzirano
Dance as an artform touches the biopsychosocial dimensions of people and as such is increasingly used as a vehicle to improve the quality of life of diverse populations in the community. Yet little ...is known about how dance classes are experienced by marginalized populations. The purpose of this action research was to explore the potential of dance to contribute to the recovery of women having experienced homelessness. The objectives were to describe: 1) the artistic content (the 'what') and the pedagogical approach (the 'how') of the classes, and 2) the experiences of all the people involved in the action research (women, workers at the women's home, dance facilitators and researcher). Over a three-year period, weekly classes were offered in a women's home. Data was collected through individual interviews, focus groups and observations. A thematic analysis revealed eleven categories of dance activities which were subsequently associated with indicators of recovery. The pedagogical approach was driven by a set of values clearly embedded in the classes; the facilitators deployed numerous adaptations to answers the women's needs. Sufficient evidence supports the claim that dance is a promising practice for individual women's process of recovery. Implications for future research and practice are discussed.
Artificial intelligence (AI) has led to a shift in modern dance education. Immersive technologies have become increasingly common worldwide, helping educators to improve the quality of dance pedagogy ...and increase the effectiveness of dance training. The article investigates the ways of using immersive technologies powered by artificial intelligence in dance education. The research explores the theoretical literature on dance education and the use of artificial intelligence in dance education and dance choreography. The scholars examine the impact of innovative technology solutions used in dance pedagogical practice on the development of dance skills in students. The study also discusses the functionality of interactive and multimedia dance teaching systems, including AI-powered virtual mentoring and cognitive simulations of human mind operations. The research analysed the use of virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (MR) in dance education. This research also focuses on mobile applications used for teaching modern dance. The proposed framework for dance education is based on digital technologies, which help to develop dance skills and improve teaching practices. The scholars conclude that the development and improvement of dance skills are possible only if a teacher combines virtual and real environments in everyday practices. The findings can be used by dance teachers, professional dancers, software developers, and researchers who examine the innovative practices and the application of artificial intelligence in dance education. The ecosystem model reframes thinking about approaches to dance education and can serve as the basis for further development of dance courses and dance style teaching modes.
•The article investigates the ways of using immersive technologies in dance education.•The research explores the theoretical literature on dance education.•The research explores the use of artificial intelligence tools in dance choreography.
For Native Americans, religious freedom has been an elusive goal. From nineteenth-century bans on indigenous ceremonial practices to twenty-first-century legal battles over sacred lands, peyote use, ...and hunting practices, the U.S. government has often acted as if Indian traditions were somehow not truly religious and therefore not eligible for the constitutional protections of the First Amendment. In this book, Tisa Wenger shows that cultural notions about what constitutes "religion" are crucial to public debates over religious freedom.In the 1920s, Pueblo Indian leaders in New Mexico and a sympathetic coalition of non-Indian reformers successfully challenged government and missionary attempts to suppress Indian dances by convincing a skeptical public that these ceremonies counted as religion. This struggle for religious freedom forced the Pueblos to employ Euro-American notions of religion, a conceptual shift with complex consequences within Pueblo life. Long after the dance controversy, Wenger demonstrates, dominant concepts of religion and religious freedom have continued to marginalize indigenous traditions within the United States.
Introduction
Public stroke education campaigns have traditionally utilized mass media. We hypothesized that a worldwide stroke awareness social media campaign, utilizing dance videos to express the ...BE‐FAST acronym for stroke signs and symptoms, could reach a large audience at a low cost.
Methods
Mission Thrombectomy 2020+ officially launched the #BEFASTChallenge, a Social Media (SoMe) public stroke educational campaign, on May 15, 2022, World Stroke Thrombectomy Day, after an internal “lead‐in” phase starting the first week of May 2022. The campaign was volunteer designed and implemented. The public and their followers were encouraged to post a video of their dance depicting each letter of BE‐FAST, tag the post with #BEFASTChallenge, and nominate others to participate. We tracked the SoMe posts from May 4th through July 13, 2022, on Facebook (FB), Twitter (TW), and Instagram (IG) platforms by searching #BEFASTChallenge on each SoMe site. We ascertained campaign adoption, public reach, and interaction by measuring original posts, views, likes, retweets, shares, and comments.
Results
There were 4 countries represented in the original posts on SoMe with the vast majority being from the US. The first post was on May 4, and the last was on July 13 (71 days), resulting in a daily average of 0.55 posts. The largest number of posts occurred on the launch date (16 posts). There were 39 original posts, which accumulated 170 retweets, 44 quote tweets, 755 likes, 32 comments, and 14 shares. The videos had 13,821views (Table 1).
Conclusions
We report that the preliminary analysis of a volunteer‐driven SoMe public stroke campaign utilizing dance to express stroke symptoms demonstrates feasibility, reaching a modest audience directly with good interaction. A similar professionally implemented SoMe campaign could lead to increased and more sustained user engagement to raise public stroke symptom awareness.
This qualitative embedded single-case study sought to describe a dance intervention designed for people in stroke rehabilitation. Recommendations from rehabilitation therapists, and the ...researcher-dance educator's observations of the therapists' work and of patient participation during the intervention were captured and analyzed, from design to implementation, through various techniques, including a validated descriptive checklist from the health field, namely the Template for Intervention Description and Replication (TIDieR). This methodology enabled us to describe what 'adapted' dance was in this context, in terms of content and pedagogy, and thus to better distinguish such an intervention from the psychotherapeutic models underlying dance therapy. Thirteen rehabilitation themes emerged from the data to inform the dance content (the 'what' of the intervention), while four pedagogical categories subdivided into modalities portrayed the 'how'. These findings suggest a 'more experientially based' intervention distinct from 'more functionally based' therapies. This paper presents the perceived effectiveness/ineffectiveness of the pedagogical modalities from the researcher-dance educator's perspective and highlights the contribution of somatic-sensitive pedagogy. It concludes with some limitations of the TIDieR, such as its weakness in providing detailed and nuanced movement descriptions, leading the authors to recommend the use of complementary audiovisual data that would likely facilitate knowledge transfer.
The study explores the pedagogical practices employed by ballet instructors for engaging boys in ballet. Inclusive practices for gender non-conforming children in ballet are also considered. Four ...ballet instructors shared their experiences in semi-structured interviews. Findings indicate that male-focused strategies in both recruitment and pedagogy are prevalent in the field. Participants noted the need for parents to be open to ballet for all genders of children, to value their child's gender expression, and to support the implementation of inclusive studio practices. Recommendations are made for teachers and studios regarding the implementation of gender-inclusive practices and the establishment of welcoming environments for all students.
This paper explains the design, development and delivery of a curriculum-integrated dance programme across four primary schools in Auckland, New Zealand. Four teachers and their respective classes ...(101 children in total) were part of the programme. Each class participated in 18 dance sessions at their schools during school hours. The dance educator delivered the dance programme and collaborated with each class teacher for planning and implementation. Various topics related to science, mathematics, English and Māori culture were covered in accordance with the term focus of each class teacher. The core values from the New Zealand primary school curriculum and New Zealand arts curriculum were embedded in the dance programme. The applicability, transferability (to other participant groups), challenges (such as time and venue) and evaluation design associated with the dance programme are discussed. Teachers’ reflections are embedded with researcher observations as they describe the significance of the dance programme.
In diesem Artikel befasse ich mich kritisch mit der Frage, ob Tanz und Choreografie generative Forschungsmethoden sein können. Hierzu greife ich auf meine Erfahrungen mit der Analyse und Übersetzung ...von Feldnotizen zurück, die aus einer Studie stammen, bei der Rollenübergangserfahrungen mit tanzbasierten Methoden untersucht wurden. In meiner Forschung nutzte ich die Graham-Technik, um die Faktoren zu identifizieren und zu untersuchen, die für das Erleben des Übergangs von einer registrierten Pflegekraft (mit nur befristeter Berufslizenz) hin zur akademisch weiterqualifizierten Advanced Practice Nurse relevant sind.Im Beitrag ringe ich immer wieder damit, Worte für einen kunstbasierten Forschungsprozess zu finden, der körperlich und intuitiv ist. Indem ich meine eigene Praxis reflektiere zeige ich, wie die Graham-Technik als Linse genutzt werden kann, um sowohl kognitive als auch körperliche Aspekte kritisch zu hinterfragen. Der Prozess des "Datentanzens", um Daten zu analysieren und Ergebnisse zu verbreiten, eröffnete neue Einsichten in die Erfahrung von Rollenübergängen und erwies sich zugleich als Methode, das Lebendige an Erfahrung zu bewahren.
Mientras recorría las páginas del libro me iba reconociendo en distintos roles: como mujer, como bailarina, como aprendiz, como docente, como artista independiente en una sociedad capitalista, como ...investigadora, como hija, amiga, mujer, hermana, pareja, colega y recientemente, como madre. También me hizo encontrarme afectivamente con espacios y personas, con algunos temores y violencias estructurales/estructuradas que continúan vigentes. Escribo también como intérprete de Augustine, una de las obras analizadas en este libro y por lo tanto, en este texto se me cuela lo anecdótico y lo afectivo…
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