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Critical Evaluation in the Choreography Class
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 July 2014
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Choreography classes are structured in a way that places intrinsic value on peer criticism, or the evaluation by students of the works their colleagues present in class. For this reason, a choreography course may be conceived of (as writing courses often are) as a “revisions process” course. But while choreography teachers already devote class time to soliciting students' critical evaluation of each other's dances, approaches to training students in this activity, as documented in the literature on the teaching and learning of choreography, are neither consistent nor intellectually rigorous. The literature concerns itself primarily with the practice of producing dance studies: exploring and making creative choices about movement and structure in the dance.
A number of writers do acknowledge and articulate the importance of teaching students to develop a sharp critical eye.
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