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OPDI-M42: Teaching Native American Dance to 21st Century Students: Respect and Reciprocity
February 22, 2027 - April 04, 2027
This course is designed to provide dance teachers with the knowledge and skills to teach historical perspectives of Native American dance in their dance history, theory, and literature courses. The course will focus on what premises instructors should keep in mind in order to respectfully incorporate Indigenous dance into their curricula, and it will cover public dance forms that can be shared and disseminated to any student in any circumstance. Assignments focus on translating the course information into assignments and lesson plans for the teacher’s specific age, level, and demographic of student. At the end of the course, dance educators will be knowledgeable about Native American dance from 1890–1950 and confident in teaching about it to their students.
Each week will consist of three main components:
• Weekly readings and/or video viewing.
• Mini-assignment to be shared in discussions. Other students will read and share feedback on each other’s assignments.
• Thinking Ahead: a prompt for thinking about your final project for the course. Since this is the large assignment for the course, it is necessary to start thinking about it early and working on it as the course progresses. This will be submitted just to the instructor. It is also a good format to ask questions about your project, if you have them.
Agenda
Speakers
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Robin Raven Prichard
<p>Robin Raven Prichard is a scholar/artist working between the worlds of contemporary concert dance and Indigenous dance. In her First Act, she danced throughout the U.S and Australia for award-winning choreographers, Opera Australia, and created her own award-winning choreography. In her Second Act, she was a professor of dance for two decades at universities in the U.S. and Australia. She served as choreographer for the American Idol video game, and recently her dance film Trigger Warning was an official selection at ADF. She has received two Fulbright Fellowships to study Australian Aboriginal and Maori (New Zealand) dance. She has served as a grant reviewer for the National Endowment for the Arts and the MAPFund and serves as a reviewer for Journal of Dance Education (JoDE). In 2022, three books in which she contributed book chapters won NDEO Ruth Lovell Murray Awards and the Susan W. Stinson Book Award. Now in her Third Act, she is pursuing dance studies where she writes about inscrutable, unruly dancing bodies, both in concert and Indigenous dance.</p>
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The Ohio State University |
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