This is the second of two parts by Alexia Buono, discussing teacher education in contact improvisation. Her first part, Teacher education in CI: What does teacher education have to do with safer dance spaces?, discussed how justice-oriented pedagogical teacher education…
Category: community-building
Teacher education in CI: What does teacher education have to do with safer dance spaces? (part 1 of 2)
Hi blog readers! I’m happy to introduce a new writer on my blog, Alexia Buono. Alexia is CI dancer with a PhD in education who specializes in teacher education and dance pedagogy in particular. I invited her to write on…
Diversity Scholarship for Falling Leaves Jam, deadline Monday 10/6
I’m happy to report some progress being made towards greater diversity in contact improvisation. For the first time, Earthdance is offering a Diversity Scholarship for the October Falling Leaves Jam (10/23 – 10/26). The deadline is coming up soon —…
What you can do to promote diversity in CI
This is likely the first of many posts about diversity and contact improvisation. It is hopefully no secret to you that contact improvisation dancers are not a particularly diverse group. CI dancers tend to be white, quite educated, coming from…