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Navigating African Identities, Otherness, and the “Wild Untamed Body” in Dance Training and Pedagogy in South Africa: A Case Study of Flatfoot Dance Company's Dance “Development” Programmes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2013

Lliane Loots
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Abstract

This paper offers an interrogation of dance training methodologies used as a basis for dance education, training, and pedagogy by Flatfoot Dance as it operates in the African contemporary context of South Africa. Focus is placed on interrogating the dance education work, which uses dance as a methodology for life skills training around health, HIV/AIDS, and sexuality, and the more focused training of young dancers for a performance career. All of this is navigated in the postcolonial context of looking for a dance pedagogy that speaks to the context of the South rather than appropriating a very problematic “globalised” process of defining dance training and pedagogy.

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Research Article
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Congress on Research in Dance Conference Proceedings , Volume 41 , supplement S1: Global Perspectives On Dance Pedagogy: Research And Practice , 2009 , pp. 293 - 299
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2009

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