The meaning of this research is to make benefits of dialogical and norm critical approaches in dance visible and thus suggest new ways to enter dance education. The starting point of the research was to carry out a workshop project with a focus group outside the normative dance context, which here means a group outside the traditional dancefield among hobbyists: a varying, heterogeneous group of girls and young women with both different bodily and other challenges and also different knowledges and experiences in dance. The research aims to contribute to their artistic creation in dance through dialogue and bodily communication in a short period of time. The theoretical framework of this artistic-didactic research is based in normcritical perspectives, and the research is conducted by Practice as Research with methods in different forms of communication, such as verbal dialogue, bodily communication and written reflections. The research questions are: How can bodily communication be used as a resource in artistic creation in dance with girls and young women outside of the nomative dance context? How can this be done within a short workshop period? How can methods within norm critical pedagogy strenghten artistic creation? The research follows a process-focused reflection as a form of critical practice, which makes the personal development of the researcher visible. It also shows how the emphasis of the research changed from exploring bodily communication into more dialogical encounter with the focus group which created communication and helped the researcher see more creativity and courage in the individuals. The ending discussion of the research shows how dialogical and norm breaking approaches create possibilities to change dance education towards more democratic in relation to traditional teaching methods.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:uniarts-1572 |
| Date | January 2023 |
| Creators | Välimaa, Juuli |
| Publisher | Stockholms konstnärliga högskola, Institutionen för danspedagogik |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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