Nov 26
Dance Education Failure
The standards for dance education have deteriorated to a farce of pedagogy. Dancers are ill prepared for the realities of their craft coming out of BFA programs and dance studios.
The educational system is failing dancers. They have a great curriculum on paper, however there is no bridging of the academia with the dance. Mainly because the professors are not dancers. So they’ll have anatomy,but there is no viable connection made to dance. They’ll have music theory but there is no tangible connection made to their art. Therefore, they disregard these classes as unimportant or “just for credits to graduate.”
Dancers are not being taught consistent, accurate and empirical knowledge, nor are they being challenged to confute the status quo and do something against the grain only after learning and mastering their foundations.
Often, many dance teachers (in a pedestrian effort to “instill” freedom) are pushing students to prematurely pursue their own technique or style while dismissing the foundational aspect of their craft. This builds a castle on shaky “subjective” ground which a few years later topples to the ground under the weight of “objective” reality. Dancers are not being given the tools to transition, establish a trajectory of success, nor have economic freedom while pursuing their craft.
The entire dance education system needs to change.
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