EMAIL ADRESS:  info@emanat.si, nina.mesko@jskd.si

PHONE NUMBER: +386.51.327575

KEY TEACHER (YES/NO. if yes, which partner organization?): YES – EMANAT (SLOVENIA)

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TITLE OF THE ACTIVITY: Presentation and Experience of the Constuction of »Study Lesson of Contemporary Dance«

DETAILED CONTENT DESCRIPTION (300 words or more):

What is a contemporary dance lesson?

• A tool for getting to know the idea, practice, and procedures of the art of dance.
• A modular, multimedia, informative, humorous, experiential, and participatory activity.
• An innovation in the area of education which can be gradually and actively included in other contents and learning procedures.

Where is the dance lesson held?

Dance lesson can be adjusted to different situations and forms of teaching (cultural education lesson, culture day, compulsory and optional electives) and spaces.

Who is it intended for?

The simplest answer would be, for any body. The presentation document comprises contents that discuss contemporary dance as the 20th century art phenomenon and is devised as a get-to-know contemporary dance tool kit.

Aims of contemporary dance lesson project are:

• Building sustainable cooperation between experts from the area of dance and professionals from educational institutions who would connect contemporary dance with other educational contents.
• Formation of a multilayered project designed to be adjusted to different learning situations and formats (cultural education lesson, culture day, compulsory and optional electives).
• Active cross-influence and upgrade of the existing educational contents and acquisition of new knowledges through the experiential dimension of learning.
• Presentation and acquisition of knowledge about contemporary dance as an art form.

Dance lesson contents can be directly linked both to dance as an art form and to school contents (in connection to topics covered by other subjects), while at the same time they can also be a humorous and didactic critique of popular culture, which could be achieved by seeing and comparing popular and art contents. In an area as general as dance, such a wager could be particularly interesting for analysis, as dance is mainly always bound in both the area of popular as well as alternative culture.

 

SUMMARY OF CONTENT DESCRIPTION (about 60 words; for publishing):

The format of the dance lesson is conceived as a set of dance contents of different scopes. Presentation formats include both practical demonstrations and theoretical insights into contemporary dance in the form of “tools for use”. 
»Study Lesson of Contemporary Dance« will be presented by four dance teachers who are still in the process of constructing it. After presentation there will be open discussion.

- SHORT BIOGRAPHY (for publishing)

Study Lesson will be presented by Maja Delak, Andreja Kopač, Nina Meško, Petra Pikalo invited to IDOCDE by Emanat. They are all active in the field of Slovenian contemporary dance as performers, choreographers, pedagogues, dramaturgue or publicist since early nineties.

- AIMED AT WHO (AND HOW MANY PEOPLE MIN /MAX?): FOR ANYBODY (MIN 30 PEOPLE)

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TIME REQUEST: 90MIN

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS (audio, beamer etc): BEAMER                                                                                                                                                                     

SPACE NECESSITY (studio size etc): LECTURE ROOM FOR 30 PEOPLE

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