Dancing Children
Time for Recovery and Transition ; My art, Our Education
Let’s dance, love, and be in solidarity!

#Dance #Time_for_Transition #Identity #Practitioner #Education_Field


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

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.


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

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.


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

We will rediscover the value of dance education at the time of transition and practice it in the education field!


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

All sessions will be done in-person. There will be four open workshop sessions.

Sess.
Date
Agenda
Details
1Sept 26

Meeting for the First Time

Orientation/

“Happy Communication” by following the four directions

In-person
2Oct 17

My Art and Dance

Discussion session/

Public workshop

In-person

3Oct 24

Dance as Art in/out of Public Education 1

Mentorship program from a Waldorf School instructor/

Public workshop

In-person
4Oct 31
Dance as Art in/out of Public Education 2

Examining cases / Discussion session

In-person
5Nov 7

Dance as Art in/out of Public Education 3

Mentorship program from a arts and culture education program instructor / Public workshop

In-person
6Nov 14

What Should We Teach to the Present Generation?

Discussion session

In-person
7Nov 21

What Makes Children Dance?

Discussion session

In-person

8Nov 28

How Should the Bodily Expression Begin and End?

Mentorship program from an arts education expert/

Public workshop

In-person
9Dec 1

Am I a Teaching Artist?

Making recycled book bindings and writing a manifesto

In-person
10Dec 5

A Mini-Forum and a Networking Party

In-person

1st Session

Sept 25, 2022. 13:00 ~ 15:00 

Meeting for the First Time 

#Happy_Communication #Animal_Personality_Test

  • Animal personality test with Dong Hee Kim from Dong-Art Psychology Research Institute 
  • Discovering my true self and communicating with myself at ease
Animal personality test with Dong Hee Kim / ⓒDancing Children
Animal personality test with Dong Hee Kim / ⓒDancing Children

2nd Session

Oct 17, 2022. 13:00 ~ 15:00 1~3pm 

My Art and Dance 

#OX_Talk #Me_and_Arts #Value_of_Arts #Ideal #Person #Fun 

#Understanding

  • Reflecting on my past arts education activity and laying a firmer base for my future activity 
  • Answering OX to questions about what arts and dance mean to me 
  • We are the driving force that can change the world... Arts cannot change the world, but we humans can. Employing arts education as the force for a better world, let’s be good human beings and teach children to be as such.
Questions for OX talk / ⓒDancing Children
Questions for OX talk / ⓒDancing Children

3rd Session

Oct 24, 2022. 13:00 ~ 15:00 

Dance as Art In/outside the Public Education 1 

#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?
Mentoring from Kyu Hyun Park /ⓒDancing Children
Mentoring from Kyu Hyun Park /ⓒDancing Children

4th Session

Oct 31, 2022. 13:00 ~ 15:00 

Dance as Art In/outside the Public Education 2 

#School #Outside_the_School_System #Intuition #Imagination #Creativity #Connection_with_Life

  • Various arts education cases inside and outside the school system 
  • Discussion on what we agreed and disagreed on the last week’s lecture Discussion on goals of arts education and practical ways to achieve them along with the parts we can practice in our life 
  • What do you make of creative classes?

5th Session

Nov 7, 2022. 13:00 ~ 15:00 

Dance as Art In/outside the Public Education 3 

#Public_Education #Open_Workshop #Mentorship 

#Educational_Environment #School_Teacher #Team_Teaching

  • The activity of improvising movements using a scarf 
  • Mentoring from Yeogo Elementary School teacher Woo Young Jung 
  • The perspective of a school teacher on public education and arts education 
  • Various cases and experiences of dance education in the public education
Lecture from the mentor Woo Young Jung / ⓒKACES
Lecture from the mentor Woo Young Jung / ⓒKACES
Dance education in the public education / ⓒKACES
Dance education in the public education / ⓒKACES

6th Session

Nov 14, 2022. 13:00 ~ 15:00 

What Should We Teach to the Present Generation? 

#4th_Industrial_Revolution #Time_of_AI #Education_Policy 

#Education_for_the_Future #Discussion_on_Topics

  • Where should the direction of education be at the time of the 4 th Industrial Revolution? 
  • What should be the goal and task of education policy in the time of AI? 
  • What are the things that only dance can achieve?
Three elements of education for the future / ⓒDancing Children
Three elements of education for the future / ⓒDancing Children

7th Session

Nov 21 2022. 13:00 ~ 15:00 

What Makes Children Dance  

#Together #Senses #Movements #Play #Emotions #Connection #Imagination

  • Getting ready for an education program where children can learn through play
  • Meeting new people, meeting new body: Ice breaking, Raising and lowering my body 
  • Let’s act like a slinky 
  • Sticker game 
  • Share your emotions on sticky notes 
  • Dancing with a scarf 
  • Dancing with sorghum straws
Meeting through body / ⓒDancing Children
Meeting through body / ⓒDancing Children
Summarizing what you felt from the activity with one word / ⓒDancing Children
Summarizing what you felt from the activity with one word / ⓒDancing Children

8th Session

Nov 28, 2022. 13:00 ~ 15:00 

How Should the Bodily Expression Begin and End?  

#Mentorship #Open_Workshop #Professional_Artist #Creativity 

#Freedom #Frame #Dance_as_Play #Diversity

  • What is the goal of the current professional artist training program? 
  • Is my body free when I’m spending time on my creative work? 
  • Sharing personal experiences of living artistic life
Mentoring from professor Mi Ri Kang / ⓒDancing Children
Mentoring from professor Mi Ri Kang / ⓒDancing Children

9th Session

Dec 1, 2022. 13:00 ~ 15:00 

Am I a Teaching Artist? 

#Willingness #Manifesto #Together #Notebook #Recycling #Small_Things

  • Making notebooks by recycling paper 
  • Writing a manifesto
Making a manifesto notebook at a workshop / ⓒDancing Children
Making a manifesto notebook at a workshop / ⓒDancing Children
Manifesto notebooks made of recycled paper / ⓒDancing Children
Manifesto notebooks made of recycled paper / ⓒDancing Children

10th Session

Dec 5, 2022. 13:00 ~ 15:00 

Mini-forum and the Networking Party  

#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.
Poster / ⓒDancing Children
Poster / ⓒDancing Children
First presentation, “A Question to Teaching Artists: Am I a Creative Person?”/ ⓒDancing Children
First presentation, “A Question to Teaching Artists: Am I a Creative Person?”/ ⓒDancing Children
Networking party “공YOU” / ⓒDancing Children
Networking party “공YOU” / ⓒDancing Children

Manifesto of Teaching Artists by Dancing Children 

 


A Manifesto Notebook Made of Recycled Paper 

 

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.