A video of first year  Dance Teacher students exploring movement material from Pina Bausch's Sacre de Printemps during a mini-intervention.

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First Year Student Ruben Kroon: "The integration of different subjects ensures coherence in the education and gives me the feeling that I am following a learning path instead of a number of different subjects that all try to do more or less the same thing. I also like the fact that by having multiple teachers in the classroom, each teacher adds something based on their expertise, which increases my understanding of the teaching material."

Gregor Kamnikar 2024 "Rok, Dejan and I were teaching a module about the Judson Theatre group we developed together with Gisela. We were teaching at the Summer School of Dance in Ljubljana, 2023. Students around 20 years old, swiftly picked on our proposal of CoTeahing and by the end of the workshop they were already co-teaching the process with us. What struck me especially is independency and connectedness between us. It was clear that what we were proposing (tasks, videos, texts) is something that is of interest to us and the students quickly understood that we responded to the interest they have in proposed tasks, video, texts, which differed from ours. And this propelled us deeper into the research and learning about the subject. By the end Rok, Dejan and I were merely holding the space for the students to get a taste of mutual teaching which is learning."

Co-teaching

Nomad Dance Academy - CODARTS

Exchange

 

Participant of Judson Theatre CoTeaching at Summer Dance School, Ljubljana, June 2023
"At the Embodied History of Contemporary Dance workshop, I perceived my presence on different levels. The knowledge that Dejan Srhoj, Rok Vevar and DISkolektiv gave us as co-teachers was not only theoretical or practical, but the two were combined. We physically awakened the historical concepts and adapted them to our own interests. We tried to place ourselves in the context of postmodernism in contemporary dance, while at the same time establishing their principles in ours. This process was accompanied by an interesting pedagogical approach - coteaching, which gave the participants of the workshop a kind of holistic immersion with support from different angles and perspectives. The management of the workshop was distributed among three individuals, which opened up even more possibilities for interpreting the content, connecting movement with theory, history with the present, and bodies with space"

Lana

A version of 'Expanded Pre-scored' CoTeaching

Katherine Stimson Codarts:  An example of how the shared knowledge of CoTeaching lead to moments of guided interdisciplinary observation of Pina Bausch's Sacre du Printemps in my theory room which then spilled out into creative exploration with movement and music in the studio.  Moving across spaces because we had permission to explore. 

Formats

Pragmatic Considerations

Memorable Examples

Intersecting Dance History and Artistic Research

A mini intervention in the curriculum through the application of an  open/associative CoTeaching session. 

 In the pop-up you can find: the score, associated learning goals and reflections on the experience. 

Welcome to the Inspiration Page.  Here you can find Memorable Examples,  Insights that developed from our moments of exchange and thoughts about Future Innovations/Applications.  In order to see everything you will need to move down and right or use the navigation tool from the dropdown menu at the top left of the page. 

"IT HAD ALL THE INGREDIENTS...IT WAS LIKE PWWHH"

Improvised Trial of Developed Module Format Nomad/CODARTS 

Canteen Cunningham Event 2022

Rok Vevar's insights into 3 CoTeaching sessions at Codarts

Powerpoints, Piano's and Costumes. Preparing for a Cunningham Event.  Excitement Building.

Email exchange after the Nomad visit. 

Evidence of the 'infection' 

Rotterdam 2022

Placeholder Katherine text response to Rok's Observations

Exploring  'technique' in a  open/associative score

Reflections on shared practice: NDA/CODARTS

Ljubljana 2021

Berlin 2023


Notes on our trip

insights into co-teaching based on out in-studio/aprés studio experiences. 

 

Dejan Srhoj's reflections on a session of CoTeaching by himself? 

Insights 

Marijke Lipps Teacher, Community Arts Project Leader and Coordiantor Codarts:

"When things arise through the connection with the other teacher and the learners that you could not have imagined beforehand. Creating space for both the 'what do we value' and the 'aha' moments.

When is co-teaching a success for you?

Gregor Kamnikar Nomad Dance Academy

"When everyone involved in a CoTeaching session is embodying, in their own way, the understanding that the co-teaching process is a co-learning process. The difference between those who propose the co-teaching way of learning and the one that the proposal is addressed to is simply the fact that the ones that propose the co-teaching did it more times than the ones that the proposal is addressed to. Playing the CoTeaching more times means that the one that proposes it has bigger access to co-create an environment where co-teaching can take place. This way step by step each member of a co-teaching session becomes a co-teacher. And the responsibility of teaching is shared, the teaching becomes a thing that pertains to everyone involved, is among us and not located in one person"

Topics for  ‘Set Modules of CoTeaching’ - Rok Vevar

·      Ludus - Dance Through Games and Play

·      Live Dance History - History of Dance in Studio Work

·      Bodies and their Policies/Politics

·      History and Culture of Physical Experience

·      Running through the Principles of Dance Composition

·      A Body as a Landscape and Climate,

·      Vertical and Horizontal in Dance etc. 

Innovations

Rok outlines goals, methods and projected outcomes for a transdisciplinary expert exchange (architecture-bodily practice). 

17 minute audio clip.   

Interdisciplinary/Intercultural CoTeaching by Codarts student teachers and local facilitators in Tanzania

Placeholder for Link to audio of Ingrid talking about how 'doodgewoon' co-teaching is for this cohort and how it will be brought into the working field.