Statement of responsibility taken from p. [2] of cover.

Includes bibliographical references.

From the conference chair -- Abstracts -- Eclipsed on the centre stage : the (dis)abled body / Gerard M. Samuel -- Provisioning Western Cape schools in South Africa with effective dance educators : posing the challenges / Sharon Friedman -- Developing Taiwanese kindergarten teachers' pedagogy in creative dance / Shu-Ying Liu -- Writing on the divide : the theorizing choreographer / Shawn Womack -- Coping in collaborative choreography : why coping strategies might affect learning / Jo Breslin and Jill Conway -- Reshaping dance through time : a critical view of historical periodisation in relation to pedagogy and research / Alexandra Carter -- The pedagogical significance of modern dance training on the twenty-first century dancing body, with reference to Doris Humphrey's dance technique and movement philosophy / Lesley Main -- A contemporary approach to ballet training for university dance majors / Lorin Johnson -- Weaving somatic theory and practice through faculty collaboration / Jill Green and B.J. Sullivan -- A neo-structuralist pedagogy for contact improvisation / Matthew Gough -- -- Panel: Tracing the trends, mapping the practices : historiography, pedagogy, and assessment in ballet studies at the undergraduate level -- -- Historiography of ballet studies at the undergraduate level in the United Kingdom / Kathrina Farrugia -- Pedagogy in ballet studies at the undergraduate level in the United Kingdom / Heulwen Price -- Assessment in ballet studies at the undergraduate level in the United Kingdom / Michelle Groves -- -- Assessment and feedback : aligning dance practice with pedagogic research / Marie Hay -- Co-participative research in a dance education partnership : nurturing critical pedagogy and social constructivism / Linda Rolfe ... [et al.] -- Digital literacy and the dance student : digital dance objects and the implications for teaching, learning, and assessment / Sarah Whatley and David Bennett -- -- Panel: A dance of empowerment : teaching dance at the post-secondary level -- -- Contemporary dance at university : a vessel for creative engagement with learning / Carol Anderson -- Navigating liminal space in the feminist ballet class / Claire F. Wootten -- -- Panel: Towards a philosophical approach to dance practice and pedagogy -- The problem of "feeling" in dance practice : fragmentation and unity / Martin Leach -- Postural configuration as a missing element in reflective epistemology / Victoria Door -- -- Teaching and learning strategies for real-time video projection in dance performance / Kate Sicchio -- Teaching research and writing to dance artists and educators / Ann H. Dils and Susan W. Stinson with Doug Risner -- Pre-professional ballet training : toward making it fit for human consumption / Karena Birk -- A comparative study about dance within tertiary education in England and Greece / Eleni Tsompanaki -- "Even the dinner ladies are teaching dance!" Pedagogic explorations of South Asian dance in Britain / Ann. R. David and Nilima Devi -- Expanding the canon : South Asian dance training in British universities / Stacey Prickett -- -- Panel: Critical issues in pedagogy and research : perspectives on dance education theory and practice -- -- Music and theory : reflectingon outcomes-based assessment / Susan W. Stinson -- Critical issues in pedagogy and research : perspectives on dance education theory and practice / Eeva Anttila -- Challenges and opportunities for dance pedagogy : critical social issues and "unlearning" how to teach / Doug Risner -- -- Panelist question and response -- -- The role of technique in dance education : the example of Tsoying High School, Taiwan / Ellen Gerdes -- Evaluating methods of traditional dances : case study of Nihon Buyo / Mieko Marumo, Yukitaka Shinoda, and Yuki Mito -- Dance of the past in the present : teaching a metahistory / Hanna Järvinen -- Biography and autobiography : teaching strategies for dance history in a mediatized world / Ray Miller -- Teaching dancers to think historically : multidisciplinarity in dance history pedagogy / Tresa Randall -- Workshop : ready, set, unset / Jürg Koch -- -- Panel: The dilemma of German dance education : historical and current inconsistencies -- -- Aesthetic education and reform : the German approach to dance education / E.Hollister Mathis-Masury -- Studying dance at German universities : research vs. practice / Rolf Kretschmann -- School curricula in Germany : dancing on the edge / Eva Bronner -- -- A creative ethos : teaching and learning at the Cloud Gate Dance School in Taiwan / David Mead -- A Brazilian hoe : education in and through dance : unlocking children's potential for dance appreciation / Alba Pedreira Vieira -- 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 / Lliane Loots -- Exercise in pedagogy : story of the bones / Ursula O. Payne -- Creative process and pedagogy with interactive dance, music, and image / Kerry Francksen with Bret Battey and Jo Breslin -- Moving beyond and in between : implications of cross/transdisciplinary methodologies for twenty-first-century pedagogies for teaching dance studies / Kathrina Farrugia -- Collaborative inquiry into the culture of dance teaching / Teija Löytönen -- On becoming a teacher : dance, pedagogy, and the debate over dance teacher quality / Edward C. Warburton -- -- Keynote panel -- -- Ken Bartlett, Thomas F. Defrantz, Janice Ross, and Michael Huxley -- Session overview -- Dance @ DMU : a short history -- The Centre for Excellence in Performance Arts.