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The Challenges of Online Modern Dance Teaching
The Challenges of Online Modern Dance Teaching

Author(s): Ruxandra-Mihaela Enache
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Music
Published by: MediaMusica
Keywords: dance education; modern dance; online teaching; pedagogy; José Limón; dance syllabus;

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses the challenges of online teaching modern dance syllabus, namely,the José Limón technique. It describes the way the exercises and movement sequencesare being taught, the musical meter, phrasing and tempo, variations for beginner ormore advanced students, and the adaptations that were made in order to fit theseexercises into a small space (when dance education moved online).The Limón syllabus is a modern dance tool that shapes and strengthen the dancer’sbody, working both with specific elements, such as fall, rebound, successional arms,bounces, etc…), and with elements from the classical technique (plié, tendu,développe, passé ) – all transformed and adapted to serve the modern dance purposes

  • Issue Year: I/2021
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 107-121
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: English