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Dance of the Past in the Present: Teaching a Metahistory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2013

Hanna Järvinen
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Abstract

How can we make the history of dance meaningful for the practitioners of the future that we teach? In this presentation, I argue that we need a genealogical and metahistorical perspective to teaching history. Our students need to understand history not as something to be known but as something written and created and therefore constantly changing. It is possible to teach a canon critically, to make past dances and our need of these past dances relevant for today's practice.

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Research Article
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Congress on Research in Dance Conference Proceedings , Volume 41 , supplement S1: Global Perspectives On Dance Pedagogy: Research And Practice , 2009 , pp. 234 - 240
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2009

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