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SESSIONS Teaching Methodologies: Utilizing reading literacy strategies to cultivate dance literacy by Tina Curran, USA Workshop In early childhood education, the analysis of a word provides young readers with multiple ways of knowing, thinking about and understanding that word. The explicit process of word analysis can be transferred, in concept, to dance in order to systematically reveal for students the layering of movement elements in technique class combinations and in choreography. This methodology promotes active learning practices and helps students establish intellectual and creative ownership of movement concepts and combinations. By explicitly guiding students through this process in a "thinking out loud" manner, students receive modeling for how to analyze a dance combination or choreographic phrase for faster, more accurate and detailed learning. Students learn how to deconstruct movement exercises or phrases in order to reconstruct it within their own body. This workshop session will present a specific early childhood education literacy strategy and demonstrate how its transference to the dance studio can cultivate dance literacy. Participants will be introduced to this reading strategy and then actively lead through applications in a dance context. The Language of Dance® will be used as the central framework for analysis, though other lenses may come into play to reveal the complexity that exists within the simplest of combinations. Lesson Plan Outline: 1. Presentation of reading literacy strategy 2. Learn movement sequence #1 – use modified strategy for movement analysis 3. Learn movement sequence #2 – analyze and compare to first sequence, (time dependant – consider other lenses for analysis) 4. (Time dependant) Learn movement sequence #3 – analyze in same way and layer other lenses. 5. Deconstruct the process and share ideas for applications in various dance learning contexts and well as ideas for development. Tina Curran, MFA is the Director and co-founder with Dr. Ann Hutchinson Guest, of the Language of Dance® Center, USA. She teaches nationally and internationally in both academic and professional venues presenting the Language of Dance®. Through her work as a dance reconstructor, she has restaged and directed several masterworks from Labanotation score. Curran is an associate researcher and co-author, with Christian Matjias, of the George Balanchine Critical Editions, the first of the series featuring Concerto Barocco. She is currently pursuing her doctoral degree at New York University, where she is researching ways in which new technologies can enhance and broaden dance literacy.
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