From the traditional point of view, we can described that literacy is the ability to read and write. So most of people might think that what is dance literacy? why dance literacy?How to combine dance and literacy?
" Some people says dance literacy inclusive of all aspects of language development, including reading, vocabulary building, drawing links to structures in the writing process and symbology of motifs/symbols." (NDEO)
I think Labanotation is the effect way to describe dance literacy. It is a language for dancers,actors,choreographers,therapists to describe, interprete, view our human movment. Its created by Rudolf Laban. "Reading and Writing" dance is not only to understand written dance notation, but also to underlying the basic elements. How do we choice the "words," by using rhythm, effort,space and relationship...etc.
It is indeed to bring this concept into dance education, most of students in dance major only know how to dance well . Even though, we knowing about lots of dance knowledge, knowledge of dance history ...but it does mean that we have the ability to read and write dance movement. Honestly, in dance so few people can read and write dance.
There are so rescourses about dance literacy
Introduction to Dance Literacy
http://www.jstor.org/pss/1478367
Literacy and the Arts
http://www.ncpublicschools.org/curriculum/artsed/resources/handbook/dance/32literacyLaban Writer Labn Reader
No comments:
Post a Comment