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careers in dance | educating dancers
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Evoking peace and purpose through movement. Services and Current Teaching. Biting Your Own Teeth. June 30, 2015. June 30, 2015. According to Pinterest (I know, I know) Alan Watts said, “Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.”. I have written about defining. At several points over the years on this blog as well as for Dance Advantage. This year, Daria Halprin’s book. The Expressive Body in Life, Art, and Therapy: Working with Movement, Metaphor, and Meaning. More than theory or p...
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Heather Vaughan-Southard | educating dancers
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Evoking peace and purpose through movement. Services and Current Teaching. April 20, 2016. I am nearly 9 months into my career leap. Here’s what I am noticing:. 1 Vision is sometimes clearer from a distance. My leap was prompted by the desire to:. Do meaningful work full-time, in environments which recognize and embrace the need I seek to fill; moving to improve the quality of one’s life. Strip away the pieces of my teaching that others can do well and to focus on what makes my teaching specialized.
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Interpretive Dance: A Rant | educating dancers
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Evoking peace and purpose through movement. Services and Current Teaching. Interpretive Dance: A Rant. June 20, 2011. June 20, 2011. There are plenty of semantic issues in dance, such as the definition of contemporary dance. But the one that may frustrate me the most is the term interpretive dance. No partnering. No expectation that this should halt movement. Ugh! It is this kind of work that viewers tend to think of as weird when really we should all simply understand this to be BAD dance. Let’s get spe...
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Writing | educating dancers
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Evoking peace and purpose through movement. Services and Current Teaching. I am a monthly contributor to Dance Advantage, writing about K-12 Dance Education. June 2011 Fall Planning with Philosophy and TV Dance in Mind. July 2011 Boosting Test Scores Through Movement. August 2011 Smooth Start: Letting Dancers Know What to Expect. September 2011 You Must Love Dance to Stick to It: Talking About College Dance. October 2011 The Costume “Black-out” Keeps Choreography Center Stage. January 2013 Personal Obser...
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Where in this Moment | educating dancers
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Evoking peace and purpose through movement. Services and Current Teaching. Where in this Moment. June 19, 2015. June 19, 2015. I am standing at the gate of opportunity; a wide open space. I am here thinking about a post by Seth Godin. About how it isn’t necessarily the how or the why that matters most in your journey; it is where. Where is the fear? Where is the fear that is holding me back? Fear is where I think I am not able to define what it is that I want to do…. It takes me to the how…. Lovely senti...
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Getting to the Point | educating dancers
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Evoking peace and purpose through movement. Services and Current Teaching. Getting to the Point. June 14, 2015. June 14, 2015. What is the point of (dance) education if not to help students connect with themselves, connect ideas, connect to others, and connect to action. What is the point of (dance) education if not to produce citizens that can think and express in multiple modalities. What is your point? In the company of others. One thought on “ Getting to the Point. June 16, 2015 at 11:29 am. Dance in...
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educating dancers | Evoking peace and purpose through movement. | Page 2
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Evoking peace and purpose through movement. Services and Current Teaching. August 31, 2015. September 1, 2015. I have added a new page, “ Current Offerings and Classes. 8220; Now it is up to you to decide how where and when we meet. I am teaching a full load of classes at Happendance. Mostly the Lansing location, with a few classes at the Okemos location). Those classes include:. Mind-Body Connection (stress reduction, cognition/creativity, and strengthening/flexibility). From Gas-light to Go. Seriously&...
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choreographic process | educating dancers
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Evoking peace and purpose through movement. Services and Current Teaching. Renewal: Controlling the Minutiae. August 6, 2013. August 6, 2013. Each summer seems to have a theme, beyond that of our television viewing. ( See For the Love of the TARDIS. Dr Who Summer continues in all gloriousness. I sobbed over David Tennant but am warming up to Matt Smith. Past years have included the summer of awakenings , the summer of reflection . This year? The summer of renewal. I am back in my body. It is now time for...
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The Next Verbal Challenge: Describing Contemporary Dance | educating dancers
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Evoking peace and purpose through movement. Services and Current Teaching. The Next Verbal Challenge: Describing Contemporary Dance. July 11, 2011. July 11, 2011. I am relatively new to Twitter but I have already enjoyed the relationships I have started to cultivate and the dialogue they have inspired. Wasn’t there huge discussion about six months ago about whether or not ballet is dead? Okay, so here goes. My attempt to fairly explain contemporary dance to the non-dancer. Gulp. As in everything, there i...
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choreography | educating dancers
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Evoking peace and purpose through movement. Services and Current Teaching. Renewal: Controlling the Minutiae. August 6, 2013. August 6, 2013. Each summer seems to have a theme, beyond that of our television viewing. ( See For the Love of the TARDIS. Dr Who Summer continues in all gloriousness. I sobbed over David Tennant but am warming up to Matt Smith. Past years have included the summer of awakenings , the summer of reflection . This year? The summer of renewal. I am back in my body. It is now time for...
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