From circle dances through chain dances to partner dances, quadrilles and the end of peasant society in Europe.

Navigating and driving a car? Drawing and colouring in? Having a conversation? How do these metaphors affect our perception of leading and following?

This one time, in dance class... Narrative Equity is a term borrowed from game design. It's the capacity of a game to generate stories that you can later tell. In this episode I discuss it's applicability to social dance and dance class

Learning is not just about knowledge and skills, but also about values and identity. Together they make up an "epistemic frame". [I incorrectly refer to this as "epistemological frame"] (Towards the end of this episode I mention going to Berlin for training "next week" - I usually record a week ahead of publishing - this time I'm two weeks ahead)

African-American dance is often described as "unlike European dance, which is upright and with a strong downbeat...". This is description that is othering and plays into poorly understood stereotypes of European dance

Why don't we take more private dance classes? (and why we should!)

My Alexander Technique teacher makes the difference between attention and awareness. This distinction ties in to some ideas about consent and agency.

Three learning-related concepts that have in common the improvisation/execution demands that they place upon teachers

Three learning-related concepts that have in common the improvisation/execution demands that they place upon teachers

French folk dancing is not oriented around conservatism vs progressivism but around culture vs social cohesion