Dance as Visual Text: Teaching Students to Read.

Phillips, Rebecca Wright

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ERIC Number: EJ517021

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1995

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Dance as Visual Text: Teaching Students to Read.

Phillips, Rebecca Wright

Interdisciplinary Humanities, v12 n1 p11-16 Win 1995

Proposes that dance is a language with its own symbols, gestures, and aesthetics with the power to communicate complex ideas and thoughts. Outlines how discussion, analysis, and criticism can be crafted from three major elements of dance: (1) space; (2) time; and (3) energy. Asserts that students can learn to read dance as a visual text. (CFR)

Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Classroom Techniques, Communication (Thought Transfer), Curriculum Development, Dance, Dance Education, Higher Education, Humanities Instruction, Interdisciplinary Approach, Movement Education, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods

Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Journal Articles

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Audience: Teachers; Practitioners

Language: English

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