| Session 7 | Pedagogical Re-Imaginings: Theses and Dissertation Options |
| Valerie Alpert, Linda Caldwell, Thomas Hecht, Lela Aisha Jones, and Hari Krishnan | |
| Re-imagining the Format of Dance Theses and Dissertations: Moving Beyond the American Academic Tradition | |
This panel discusses possibilities for re-imagining the American academic landscape as dance scholars from diverse global locations and backgrounds explore new terrain (virtual and real) for presenting research to communities beyond the traditionally-defined scholarly audience. Further, the ever-changing world of digital technology is considered as it shapes and re-shapes static academic spaces and possibilities for the format of the doctoral dissertation. Questions about what form this re-shaping might take in terms of the individual needs of each scholar will direct the panel. |
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| Valerie Alpert Chicago performing artist and dance faculty member at the College of Lake County, discusses how emerging technologies open future connections between and influences the shape of dance scholarship, performance, and pedagogy. Issues of accessibility, visual reading, and interactive formats will be included. | |
| Linda Caldwell, faculty member in the low-residential doctoral program at Texas Woman’s University, introduces the topic in terms of information retrieval, standards within shifting scholarly practices, and alternative formats for theses and dissertations currently practiced within various disciplines. | |
| Thomas Hecht faculty member at the University of the Arts London, the Palucca School in Dresden, and the University of Bern in Switzerland, discusses how the integration of media (audio formats and videos) into the presentation of his research (Emotionally Intelligent Ballet Training) can directly reach a broad and diverse audience. | |
| Lela Aisha Jones discusses the advancement of community through socio-arts collaborations. She facilitated collaborative projects with Pinelands Creative Workshop Barbados, and L’Ecole Des Sables Senegal. She has performed with Urban Bush Women, Black Smiths Daughter Dance Theatre/Nia Love and INSPIRIT/Christal Brown. | |
| Hari Krishnan, World Dance Artist-in-Residence in the Department of Dance at Wesleyan University and Artistic Director of inDANCE of Toronto, discusses the documentation, translation, and analysis of the last hereditary systems of dance in South India through an integration of performance studies, history, and gender studies. | |
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