Connecting our dance educators with dance scholars, scientists and dance researchers is a part of our mission for bringing the best and most current practices in dance education into our studio environments. Making connections between dance scholarship and related fields is essential to informing our dance instruction and teaching philosophy in so that we can provide the best education in dance to our students. Today’s conversation will revolve around interdisciplinary scholarship, and investigate how the fields of Dance, Social Sciences and Humanities can inform one another. Today we welcome an Instructor Associate from Arizona State University Ms. Lauren Mark.
GUEST: Lauren Mark is a Doctoral Candidate and Instructor Associate at the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University. Her dissertation work focuses on Asian-based approaches to relationality that lead to survival and generativity. Lauren also holds an M.Ed in Educational Organization, Leadership and Policy from the University of Illinois and an M.A. in Dance from The Ohio State University. Lauren looks for ways to explore interdisciplinary scholarship, stemming from performative pedagogies and embodied learning in her courses. Lauren incorporates improvisation and embodied learning in the field of Communication and cultural improvisations in the field of Dance. Specifically, she has experimented with the use of improvisation to cultivate active listening and to simulate cultural uncertainty. She has also brought cultural concepts of proximity and affect to dance technique classes. This work builds on her previous explorations of multigenerational movement improvisations of shared memories and collective devising approaches to choreograph poetry.
TWIT: @laurenmark6
LINKEDIN: Lauren Renee Mark
WEBSITE: humancommunication.asu.edu/content/lauren-mark
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