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OPDI-M28: Dance in Communities: Partnerships, Advocacy, and Audience Building
May 19, 2025 - June 29, 2025
This course centers wholly on dance advocacy and activism through community- or socialy-engaged work. You will explore civic infrastructure, audience development, grant writing/fundraising, partnerships, and advocacy. The stakes of and public discussion around dance as an economic and political force in the United States widens the scope of the course to bridge local action with national and international impact. You will also develop your own personally-relevant community engagement and advocacy plan as part of this course.
Book Required: None
How do OPDI Online Courses for dance teachers work?
Our “online” courses are guided by a professor and include a co-hort of students (other dance teachers) with whom you will collaborate. They also include graded assignments, feedback, final grades, and Professional Development Credits (PDCs). Our OPDI online courses require on average between 6 to 8 hours of work each week, but it all depends on your learning style. It could be less or could be more. You can also register as an Audit student and do as much or as little work as you want and will not receive a grade.
We utilize the Sakai online learning platform to deliver the course materials and instruction. Our courses are asynchronous, so there are no required meeting dates or times but we do have a Course Start and Course End date; however, our courses offer at least 2 optional live Q&A-Feedback zoom sessions during the course to enhance opportunities for connection with other students and the professor. Every week of the course there are assignments that you will need to complete with due dates listed in the course outline / syllabus.
Assignments can be done at any time during the week prior to the due date and may include reading, watching videos, posting answers to prompts on a discussion board, writing an essay, reading and responding to other students' posts on the discussion board, taking a cell phone video of yourself completing a particular movement, taking a quiz, or completing a final project. The professor provides written feedback and grades and you get to connect with other students (who are actually dance teachers) via our discussion board and the optional live Q&A feedback sessions.
Agenda
Speakers
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Ali Duffy
<p><strong>Ali Duffy </strong>(PhD, MFA) is Professor, Graduate Director, and Associate Head of Dance at Texas Tech University; the Artistic Director of Flatlands Dance Theatre; and co-founder of the International Parenting and Dance Network. Her book, <em>Dancing Motherhood, </em>was published in 2023 (Routledge) and <em>Careers in Dance</em> was published in 2021 (Human Kinetics). She recently co-edited the special issue of <em>Research in Dance Education</em>, “Dancing, Parenting, and Professional Challenges.” Her research is supported by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Texas Commission on the Arts. She also teaches courses about arts advocacy and community building through dance in NDEO’s Online Professional Development Institute.</p>
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Texas Tech University |
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