Choreographer/Researcher/Teacher

Abstract

This article follows the becoming-artographic of four colleagues working within the field of dance pedagogy at Stockholm University of the Arts. The four colleagues – Tone, Camilla, Stina and Madelaine - are part of a larger professional learning community of staff that together has carried out a large change project restructuring the BA program in Dance Pedagogy with an A/R/Tographic approach, emphasising the artist, researcher and teacher in dance pedagogy. To qualify staff to work with A/R/Tography the open course A/R/Tography in Theory and Practice in Higher Education (7,5 ECT) was developed. The four authors of this article were all involved in the first round of the open course, and the course is the entanglement from which the four colleagues har explored the question that guides this article: How is A/R/Tography being developed for the field of dance pedagogy at the local context of Stockholm University of the Arts in an ongoing collaborative learning community of teachers at the institution? Their exploration has resulted in three artographic expositions, which this article travels into. The exploration is based in a diffractive methodology, and thinks-with theory from artography and expanded choreography. The insights arrived at are discussed as values, performative pedagogy, expanded choreography, a researching approach as choreographers/researchers/teachers, and professional development among staff in higher dance education. Photo: Camilla Reppen

Keywords

• a/r/tography
• higher dance education
• professional learning community
• expanded choreography
• diffractive methodology