Knowing Dance: A Guide For Creative Teaching

Knowing Dance is an indispensable guide and handbook for dance teachers and educators of students of all ages and abilities and in a wide variety of teaching contexts. Concise and clearly laid out, it is filled with both thought-provoking questions and practical answers. Author Marion Gough provides a general framework for understanding the many different aims, demands and constraints of teaching dance, and offers detailed ways of dealing with them. Gough examines the relationship between teaching and learning and explores the ways that a dance course may be planned. She presents a three-part model of dance as art-compose, perform and appreciate-illustrated with examples from practicing dance teachers in different fields. Finally, Gough suggests general ways of promoting good teaching practice, and supplies planning and evaluation forms for teachers to use as is or tailor to their own needs.