Dancing Children

Living in the era of post-COVID 19 and the Fourth Industrial Revolution, we would like to question and reflect on the core value of dance education and our role as practitioners. “What is dance?” “What should we teach?” “What does dance mean to children?” Questions such as these will be at the core as we conduct a case study on the dance education. The research topics will be specified throughout movement workshops. With these activities, we shall affirm our identity as a teaching artist and write a manifesto for teaching artists together.

In the era of post-COVID and the Fourth Industrial Revolution, ‘dance’ is experiencing an identity crisis. Dance, in its essence, is bodily and temporary, bound to time and space, but the present time of Metaverse, multipleness, and ‘bodiless bodies’ contradicts this essence of dance.

Facing the time for transition as a teaching artist, our team will interact with one another to return to the fundamental agenda about arts and education, to rediscover the value of arts education proper for the present, and to find ways to practice in the field what we discuss in the team. Although these questions and agenda may have sound too burdening, there were people who joined the team to share the burden together. Thanks to our team members’ passion and willingness to be part of it, we had a very pleasant first meeting.

Sess.	Date	Agenda	Details
1	Sept 26	Meeting for the First Time Orientation/ “Happy Communication” by following the four directions	In-person
2	Oct 17	My Art and Dance Discussion session/ Public workshop	In-person
3	Oct 24	Dance as Art in/out of Public Education 1 Mentorship program from a Waldorf School instructor/ Public workshop	In-person
4	Oct 31	Dance as Art in/out of Public Education 2 Examining cases / Discussion session	In-person
5	Nov 7	Dance as Art in/out of Public Education 3 Mentorship program from a arts and culture education program instructor / Public workshop	In-person
6	Nov 14	What Should We Teach to the Present Generation? Discussion session	In-person
7	Nov 21	What Makes Children Dance? Discussion session	In-person
8	Nov 28	How Should the Bodily Expression Begin and End? Mentorship program from an arts education expert/ Public workshop	In-person
9	Dec 1	Am I a Teaching Artist? Making recycled book bindings and writing a manifesto	In-person
10	Dec 5	A Mini-Forum and a Networking Party	In-person

#Waldorf_Education #Steiner #Alternative_Education

#Education_as_an_Art #Open_Workshop #Mentorship

Mentoring from Yangpyeong Free Waldorf School teacher Kyu Hyun Park
Mr. Park’s talk on why he established the school and what Steiner’s cognitive approach, a foundation of Waldorf education is
Mr. Park’s lecture on the problems in current public education and the examples of education as an art process, the aim of alternative education
What can we do to achieve the arts education we pursue?

#Mini-forum #Networking_Party #Manifesto #Being_Creative

#Being_Free #Sharing #Improvised_Dance #Sea

Reciting the manifesto and commenting on the overall team activities
Presentation and Discussion 1: “A Question to Teaching Artists: Am I a Creative Person?” by Jee Hyun Shin
Presentation and Discussion 2: “Class Plan for ‘Spring,’ a Subject in the 2nd Grade Curriculum Using Waldorf Cognitive Approach on Education: Spread Your Wings for Your Dream” by Soo Hae Lee
Networking Party: PERFORMANCE “공YOU” by Jung Hee Wang
On the sea, created by artist Kyu Sik Choi at the venue, we dance.

We will interact with children through ‘love.’ We will stand in children’s shoes when we practice. We will cherish the process rather than the result when children’s life meets the arts. We will let our arms wide open to embrace the diverse colors children possess. We will make sure our classes are led by children’s engagement rather than by our instruction. We will become a vehicle for balancing ‘diversity’ and ‘harmony’ through arts. We will be on the children’s side believing that our perspective on children is arts education.

Dancing Children

Time for Recovery and Transition ; My art, Our Education

Let’s dance, love, and be in solidarity!

Q. What is “Time for Recovery and Transition ; My art, Our Education”?

Q. What kind of people, on what common ground, came together as <Dancing Children>?

Q. What is the final mission for <Dancing Children>?

Q. Through what activities will <Dancing Children> interact?

Meeting for the First Time

My Art and Dance

Dance as Art In/outside the Public Education 1

Dance as Art In/outside the Public Education 2

Dance as Art In/outside the Public Education 3

What Should We Teach to the Present Generation?

What Makes Children Dance

How Should the Bodily Expression Begin and End?

Am I a Teaching Artist?

Mini-forum and the Networking Party

Manifesto of Teaching Artists by Dancing Children

A Manifesto Notebook Made of Recycled Paper