Teaching Dance: a complementary approach for modern actor training

This interpretive qualitative research aims at understanding the corporal work in the class Dance for actors taught by Melanie Demers, invited artist during the 2014 winter semester at Ecole superieure de theatre in Universite du Quebec a Montreal. Using the concept of experience (Dewey, 2005) and...

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Main Author: Marie-Eve Skelling Desmeules (Universite d’Ottawa – Ottawa, Canada)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul 2016-12-01
Series:Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença
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Online Access:https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/presenca/article/view/63593
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description This interpretive qualitative research aims at understanding the corporal work in the class Dance for actors taught by Melanie Demers, invited artist during the 2014 winter semester at Ecole superieure de theatre in Universite du Quebec a Montreal. Using the concept of experience (Dewey, 2005) and the Activity theory (Engestrom, 1987; 1999), I studied how this class leads students to open themselves to their own bodies, to create a corporal writing, to develop internal and external conscienceness, to confront personal challenges related to the corporal work and to accept the vulnerability of their bodies in artistic expression.
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spelling doaj.art-5fe0413de3a547ad8909f3cdbe79ef5d2022-12-22T02:00:32ZengUniversidade Federal do Rio Grande do SulRevista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença2237-26602016-12-0171Teaching Dance: a complementary approach for modern actor trainingMarie-Eve Skelling Desmeules (Universite d’Ottawa – Ottawa, Canada)0Faculté d'éducation, Université d'Ottawa This interpretive qualitative research aims at understanding the corporal work in the class Dance for actors taught by Melanie Demers, invited artist during the 2014 winter semester at Ecole superieure de theatre in Universite du Quebec a Montreal. Using the concept of experience (Dewey, 2005) and the Activity theory (Engestrom, 1987; 1999), I studied how this class leads students to open themselves to their own bodies, to create a corporal writing, to develop internal and external conscienceness, to confront personal challenges related to the corporal work and to accept the vulnerability of their bodies in artistic expression. https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/presenca/article/view/63593Physical WorkDanceActor TrainingActivity TheoryExperience
spellingShingle Marie-Eve Skelling Desmeules (Universite d’Ottawa – Ottawa, Canada)
Teaching Dance: a complementary approach for modern actor training
Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença
Physical Work
Dance
Actor Training
Activity Theory
Experience
title Teaching Dance: a complementary approach for modern actor training
title_full Teaching Dance: a complementary approach for modern actor training
title_fullStr Teaching Dance: a complementary approach for modern actor training
title_full_unstemmed Teaching Dance: a complementary approach for modern actor training
title_short Teaching Dance: a complementary approach for modern actor training
title_sort teaching dance a complementary approach for modern actor training
topic Physical Work
Dance
Actor Training
Activity Theory
Experience
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