New Frontiers
University of San Jorge
Covid-19 Pandemic and Online Dance Education : Issues, Opportunities, and New Pedagogies
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Cristina Goletti
The Covid-19 Pandemic forced dance faculty in higher education to urgently shift to online delivery methods. Based on interviews with various dance faculty from diverse geographical, disciplinary and institutional affiliations, this study is a reflection on the dance pedagogy trends, issues, and concepts during the 2020 shift to virtual dance teaching and learning. This essay considers difficulties that occurred in online dance education, such as health and safety issues, the complexity of navigating students’ diverse socio-economic discrepancies and its connection to access, and the emotional and mental health toll on students of a rapidly changing art sector. It also explores new discoveries in dance pedagogies and ideas for moving dance education forward post-Covid-19. The research brings into focus the role of technology in dance education, its effect on teaching, embodied learning, and creative development. Finally, we look at the limiting believes surrounding online dance education, and how they can become opportunities to discover new frontiers in dance teaching.
Transit of Images: Historical Counter-narratives in Art Exhibitions in Brazil View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Bruna Arruda Neiva Marques
The paper investigates an exclusion of narratives and imagery that have brought into play the dispossessions and conflicts that marked the history and present of Brazil in the field of images, and, in opposition, recent exhibitions and artistic productions that stand as a counterpoint to this hegemonic perception of life. From works of art present in the exhibitions Museu do Homem do Nordeste (Museum of the Northeastern Man) by artist Jonathas de Andrade and Conflitos (Conflicts: Photography and political violence in Brazil, 1889-1964), we discuss the transit of significations operated within images and the historical resignification that can happen through the articulation of discursive forces in the fields of art, communication and history. In some cases, the curatorships rely on works and documents from distant times, bringing into play images that show themselves as evidence of the construction and naturalization of a colonial episteme and imaginary. Another class of exhibitions brings together works by artists from countries marked by colonization that, through artistic inventions, fictional creations, and above all, performative gestures, confront this mismatch between the lived reality and its sensible equivalents, representing what has sometimes been obliterated of official history.
Arts Programming: A Framework for Planning and Strategic Analysis View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Jonathan Price
This paper sets out a theoretical approach to the understanding of arts programming and a framework for its analysis as a key element of strategic planning for venue-based organisations in the cultural sector. Programming is at the heart of artistic planning and yet it is a neglected area in the literature on arts management. There is a dearth of structured approaches or directly relevant theory to inform critical assessment of the programming choices which ultimately define the value, identity and dilemmas of arts venues in their many different operating contexts. Identifying the main programming models across music, theatre and the visual arts, the paper pinpoints key points of similarity and difference across sub-sectors and the categories of organisational activity included in a programming plan. It explores how planning decisions are made, and by whom, considering emerging models of participatory programming alongside the implications of more traditional approaches. The framework takes into account the aesthetic, practical, financial and temporal factors affecting programming decisions and the influence of location, venue type, scale and audience base on tendencies towards innovation or conventionality. Programming analysis emerges an important tool for checking vision, mission and espoused values against delivery. The framework is highly relevant for students and teachers of arts and cultural management. It also offers a resource for arts managers and trustees concerned with the implications of programming strategy on fundraising, resource management and audience development.
