Physical Embodiment of Culture Through Movement
Craig-Quijada B.; Joshi P.
2021
The Wiley Handbook of Collaborative Online Learning and Global Engagement
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10.1002/9781119634867.ch10
In this chapter the authors elaborate on a global course connection between two liberal arts colleges, one in the USA and the other in India, to discuss how they integrated new understandings of culture, movement, and process into their courses. Using Sklar’s article, Five Premises for a Culturally Sensitive Approach to Dance, they investigate how “Movement knowledge is a kind of cultural knowledge”, and developed a collaborative dance project that would reveal culture through movement. The authors wish to identify approaches for collaborative teaching and dance creation between Indian and American students and faculty, while attending to the planning and flexibility that is required in creating a stimulating space for artistic and pedagogical exploration. The theme of “Movement and Culture” encourages students to explore questions of culture, aesthetics, time, and space. © 2022 John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
American students; collaborative teaching; cultural knowledge; dance project; liberal arts colleges; movement knowledge
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