The body as evidence...

A good first discussion today with Agata, Davis, Raymond and Rebecca.

We talked across all three modules about common themes of the body, approaches to learning and teaching technique, about structure and freedom and about the importance of multiple perspectives.

Davis reported back as Student Rep to the group from the recent Student Voice Group meeting help at the university this week and updated all on the move of the MAPP programmes from the school of Work-based learning to the school of Arts and Creative Industries and the shift in focus this allows now from work-place to practice-based. About the positive changes to handbooks in terms of language and clarity and the administrative and resource support available in the university beyond your advisors. He will blog about this and, from today's conversatiosn, about the use of breath and breathing in teaching and learning in order for us not to become or remain static in our dancing, in our lives.http://kensdancer.blogspot.co.uk/

Agata will share more from this conversation with a focus on how we perceive our own body as central to how we approach 'the body' in dance training through multiple techniques.
http://krabumbel.blogspot.co.uk/2018/02/dialogue.html 

Raymond will talk further about the notion of Intuition in our teaching - 'why do we do the things we do they way we do?' and about recognising the limitations of putting our teaching and our students 'in boxes'.
raymond-chai.blogspot.co.uk/ 

Rebecca will blog about seeing research as a framework for deepened/extended learning and starting to look within rather than outside us for inspiration and knowledge.
http://rebeccas-k.blogspot.co.uk/

This looking within, reminded me of a workshop I observed with Shobhana Jeyasingh and our BA choreography students at the university this week. She spoke in reference to her own work about seeing 'the body as evidence'. Looking at what stories it has to tell and how you tell them. How do you reveal the knowing of your body. How does that shape and structure your dancing?

Let me know your thoughts...