Antiracism in Ballet Teaching

1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-03-225420-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 630 g

This new collection of essays and interviews assembles research on teaching methods, choreographic processes, and archival material that challenges systemic exclusions and provides practitioners with accessible steps to creating more equitable teaching environments, curricula, classes, and artistic settings.

Antiracism in Ballet Teaching gives readers a wealth of options for addressing and dismantling racialized biases in ballet teaching, as well as in approaches to leadership and choreography. Chapters are organized into three sections - Identities, Pedagogies, and Futurities - that illuminate evolving approaches to choreographing and teaching ballet, shine light on artists, teachers, and dancers who are lesser known/less visible in a racialized canon, and amplify the importance of holistic practices that integrate ballet history with technique and choreography. Chapter authors include award-winning studio owners, as well as acclaimed choreographers, educators, and scholars. The collection ends with interviews featuring ballet company directors (Robert Garland and Alonzo King), world-renowned scholars (Clare Croft, Thomas F. DeFrantz, Brenda Dixon Gottschild), sought-after choreographers (Jennifer Archibald and Claudia Schreier), and beloved educators (Keesha Beckford, Tai Jimenez, and Endalyn Taylor).

This is an essential resource for anyone teaching or learning to teach ballet in the Twenty First Century.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Harrison, Iyun Ashani

Mattingly, Kate

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Tanz Ballett, Modern Dance

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: Identities

1. Teaching for Tomorrow

Gabrielle Salvatto

2. Perspective––Dionne Figgins

3. Perspective–––––Lourdes Lopez

4. Native American dancers beyond settler colonial confines

Kate Mattingly

5. Reflections on Quare Dance

Alyah Baker

Part 2: Pedagogies

6. Classical Perspectives: Performance, Pedagogy, and (Changing) Cultures

Anjali Austin

7. Dear Ballet Teachers, Let’s Talk About Race

Ilana Goldman and Paige Cunningham

8. Making space – inclusive and equitable teaching practices for ballet in higher education

Alana Isiguen

9. Dismantling anti-Blackness

Maurya Kerr

10. ReCentering the Studio: Ballet Leadership and Learning Through Intersectional and Antiracist Approaches

Renée K. Nicholson and Lisa DeFrank-Cole

11. Credibility and Expertise: Black Women Teaching Classical Ballet

Monica Stephenson

12. Adjusting pedagogies for developing artists: age-appropriate classes for classical ballet Misa Oga

13. Ballet as Artistic, Scientific, and Existential Inquiry: Incorporating Ballet’s Broader History in a Syllabus and in the Studio

Jehbreal Muhammad Jackson

14. Dive In

Keesha Beckford)

Part 3: Futurities

15. A willingness to shed

Sidra Bell

16. Honoring the Legacy of Antiracist Ballet Teaching & Leadership in Black and Brown Dance Organizations

Iyun Ashani Harrison

17. Ballet’s Ever-Present Presence

Thomas F. DeFrantz

18. Twelve Steps to Ballet’s Cultural Recovery

Theresa Ruth Howard

19. Creating New Spaces: Today’s Black Choreographers

Brandye Lee

20. Ballet’s Futurities––Insights from Choreographers, Scholars, and Educators

Über Autor(innen)

Kate Mattingly is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication and Theatre Arts at Old Dominion University, USA.

Iyun Ashani Harrison is an associate professor of the practice of dance and head of ballet at Duke University, USA.