abstract: This study intended to identify what children's perceptions and experiences are with contact improvisation and how these experiences relate to their education; their understanding of being an individual within a community; and their physical, social, and intellectual development. An interpretive phenomenological research model was used, because this study aimed to understand and interpret the children's experience with contact improvisation in order to find meaning relating to the form's possible benefits. The research was conducted over the course of ten weeks, which included classes, interviews, discussions, questionnaires, and journals. This study showed that contact improvisation empowered the children, opened the children's awareness, developed critical thinking, and created a deeper understanding and trust of the self and relationships formed within the class. The experiences found through teaching contact improvisation to these children showed that there are benefits to teaching children the form. / Dissertation/Thesis / M.F.A. Dance 2014
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:asu.edu/item:24920 |
| Date | January 2014 |
| Contributors | Crissman, Angel (Author), Schupp, Karen (Advisor), Dyer, Becky (Committee member), O'Donnell, Timothy (Committee member), Arizona State University (Publisher) |
| Source Sets | Arizona State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Masters Thesis |
| Format | 101 pages |
| Rights | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/, All Rights Reserved |
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