Antiracism in Ballet Teaching

Antiracism in Ballet Teaching
Author: Kate Mattingly
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2023-12-11
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1003803393

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This new collection of essays and interviews assembles research on teaching methods, choreographic processes, and archival material that challenges systemic exclusions and provides practitioners with accessible steps to creating more equitable teaching environments, curricula, classes, and artistic settings. Antiracism in Ballet Teaching gives readers a wealth of options for addressing and dismantling racialized biases in ballet teaching, as well as in approaches to leadership and choreography. Chapters are organized into three sections - Identities, Pedagogies, and Futurities - that illuminate evolving approaches to choreographing and teaching ballet, shine light on artists, teachers, and dancers who are lesser known/less visible in a racialized canon, and amplify the importance of holistic practices that integrate ballet history with technique and choreography. Chapter authors include award-winning studio owners, as well as acclaimed choreographers, educators, and scholars. The collection ends with interviews featuring ballet company directors (Robert Garland and Alonzo King), world-renowned scholars (Clare Croft, Thomas F. DeFrantz, Brenda Dixon Gottschild), sought-after choreographers (Jennifer Archibald and Claudia Schreier), and beloved educators (Keesha Beckford, Tai Jimenez, and Endalyn Taylor). This is an essential resource for anyone teaching or learning to teach ballet in the Twenty First Century.

Teaching/Learning Anti-Racism

Teaching/Learning Anti-Racism
Author: Louise Derman-Sparks
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Total Pages: 194
Release: 1997
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0807776084

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Louise Derman-Sparks and Carol Brunson Phillips have been teaching anti-racism to adults for over 20 years. Based on their real classroom experience, Teaching/Learning Anti-Racism offers us a guide to the development of anti-racist identity, awareness, and behavior. By integrating methodology and course content descriptions with student writings and analyses of students’ growth, the book highlights the interaction between teaching and learning. Organized chronologically from the first to the last class, the text describes how each session contributed to the students’ fascinating journey from pro-racist consciousness to active anti-racism. This volume is much more than a curriculum guide for implementing anti-racism education with adults. Here, the authors, one White and one African American, also share their experiences—the successes, the failures, the difficulties, and, most important, what they learned from their students. Teaching/Learning Anti-Racism provides both a “how-to” and a conceptual framework to help teachers and trainers adapt anti-racism education for their programs. “A must-read for any teacher interested in helping children ‘talk the talk’ of multiculturalism and equity.” —Teaching Tolerance “These authors offer us enlightenment, potential directions for action, and a level of hope.” —Multicultural Review “Any educators wishing to encourage anti-racist attitudes on the part of their colleagues will find this book valuable.” —Rethinking Schools

Final Bow for Yellowface: Dancing Between Intention and Impact

Final Bow for Yellowface: Dancing Between Intention and Impact
Author: Phil Chan
Publisher: R. R. Bowker
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2020-06-30
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781734732481

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Who would have guessed that one short conversation with New York City Ballet Artistic Director Peter Martins would change the course of how we approach America's favorite holiday ballet, and serve as a catalyst for changing how we talk about race in America? Phil Chan, arts advocate and co-founder of Final Bow for Yellowface, chronicles his journey navigating conversations around race, representation, and inclusion arising from issues in presenting one short dance-the Chinese variation from The Nutcracker. Armed with new vocabulary, he recounts his process and pitfalls in advising Salt Lake City's Ballet West on the presentation of a lost Balanchine work from 1925, Le Chant du Rossignol.Chan encounters orientalism, cultural appropriation, and yellowface, and witnesses firsthand the continuing evolution of an Old World aristocratic dance form in a New World democratic environment. As a storyteller, Chan presents a mix of dance and Chinese American history, personal anecdotes, and best practices for any professional arts organization to use for navigating issues around race, while outlining an essential path American ballet must take in order for our beloved art form to stay alive for a growingly diverse 21st century audience.

The Realization of Anti-Racist Teaching

The Realization of Anti-Racist Teaching
Author: Godfrey L. Brandt
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 141
Release: 2022-02-14
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000344231

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First published in 1986, The Realization of Anti-Racist Teaching explores the subject and importance of anti-racist education. The book examines the relationship between the educational debate at the level of academic institutions, professional organisations, and local education authorities within the context of the actual practice of teaching. It also questions how to link anti-racist theories put forward by theorists and activists to the practice of teachers. The Realization of Anti-Racist Teaching is a detailed discussion of the history of racism and of anti-racist teaching and education.

Performance Constellations

Performance Constellations
Author: Marcela A. Fuentes
Publisher: Theater: Theory/Text/Performan
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2019-10-02
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0472054228

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Demonstrates the power of embodied and digital networks in confronting neoliberal sociopolitical regimes in the Americas

Shapes of American Ballet

Shapes of American Ballet
Author: Jessica Zeller
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2016
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0190296690

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Shapes of American Ballet introduces several lesser-known European and Russian ballet teachers who worked in New York City before Balanchine. Taking into account the effects of America's economic system and the early twentieth century popular stage, this book looks anew at American ballet as derived from multiple influences and lineages.

Antiracist Pedagogy in Action

Antiracist Pedagogy in Action
Author: Erin T. Miller
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 111
Release: 2023-01-09
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1475867883

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This book is written by a diverse group of educators who spent the better part of one year learning about and implementing antiracist pedagogy. We hope our work is inspiring to other educators who want to learn more about antiracist pedagogy; more than that, we hope it provides a tool to engage with and speak back against repressive policies that seek to push out antiracist pedagogies. We worry that antiracist pedagogy has become a buzzword in scholarship and public discourse — simultaneously feared, silenced, hated, misunderstood, misused, and appropriated. We believe antiracist pedagogy has a place in democratic education. Therefore, we consider this book to be a clarifying project. In it, we provide precise definitions and concrete examples to demonstrate how antiracist pedagogy is a way of teaching and learning that engages past failures of American democracy in order to inspire students to take action toward fulfilling the promise of American democracy.

The Antiracist World Language Classroom

The Antiracist World Language Classroom
Author: Krishauna Hines-Gaither
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2022-07-29
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000593126

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How can you incorporate antiracist practices into specific subject areas? This essential book finally answers that question and offers a clear roadmap for introducing antiracism into the world language classroom. Drawing on foundational and cutting-edge knowledge of antiracism, authors Hines-Gaither and Accilien address the following questions: what does antiracism look like in the world language classroom; why is it vital to implement antiracist practices relevant to your classroom or school; and how can you enact antiracist pedagogies and practices that enrich and benefit your classroom or school? Aligned with the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages standards, the book is filled with hands-on antiracist activities, strategies, and lesson plans. The book covers all necessary topics, including designing antiracist units of study, teaching across proficiency levels, advocacy and collaboration in the community, and how to facilitate self- reflection to become an active antiracist educator. The tools, prompts, and resources in this book are essential for any world language teacher, department chair, or school leader.

New Framings on Anti-Racism and Resistance

New Framings on Anti-Racism and Resistance
Author: Ayan Abdulle
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2017-06-09
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9463009507

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This collection of essays generates important enquiries into the teaching and practice of anti-racism education, by way of working through conversations, contestations, and emotions as presented by a diverse group of strong women committed to social justice work in their own right. Throughout the collection, contemporary educational issues are situated within personal-political, historical and philosophical conversations, which work to broach the challenges and possibilities for students, educators, staff, administrators, policy makers, and community members who engage in critical anti-racism education. This work diverges from the existing scholarship by way of bringing new insights to the theoretical possibilities of resistance and futurity as voiced through pedagogues, practitioners and scholars in anti-racism. In this book the authors speak to the importance of anti-racism discursivity in a time when even those who desire to engage this framework struggle to be heard; in a time when there are anti-racism policies in institutions, yet to speak anti-racism philosophy remains dangerous; and in a time when, to speak race and anti-racism, is considered to be stirring up trouble in the face of post-racial discourses.

The Palgrave Handbook of Race and the Arts in Education

The Palgrave Handbook of Race and the Arts in Education
Author: Amelia M. Kraehe
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 598
Release: 2018-07-12
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3319652567

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The Palgrave Handbook of Race and the Arts in Education is the first edited volume to examine how race operates in and through the arts in education. Until now, no single source has brought together such an expansive and interdisciplinary collection in exploration of the ways in which music, visual art, theater, dance, and popular culture intertwine with racist ideologies and race-making. Drawing on Critical Race Theory, contributing authors bring an international perspective to questions of racism and anti-racist interventions in the arts in education. The book’s introduction provides a guiding framework for understanding the arts as white property in schools, museums, and informal education spaces. Each section is organized thematically around historical, discursive, empirical, and personal dimensions of the arts in education. This handbook is essential reading for students, educators, artists, and researchers across the fields of visual and performing arts education, educational foundations, multicultural education, and curriculum and instruction.