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.
Edited by:
Kate Mattingly,
Iyun Ashani Harrison
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 216mm,
Width: 138mm,
Weight: 470g
ISBN: 9781032254197
ISBN 10: 103225419X
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 11 December 2023
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Professional and scholarly
,
Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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
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.
