For anyone with interest in dance in education or improvisation in any art form!
What is really interesting in this talk by Peter J Lovatt is how he highlights how structured dance and improvised dance differently effects our cognitive problem solving. When practicing structured dance we become quicker at solving problems with one answer. When improvising we become more creative and faster at answering questions with multiple answers.
This video had further convinced me of the importance of the practice of improvisation when teaching dance. When learning structured dance we are only utilising a fraction of our movement potential and testing ourselves physically and mentally to half of our ability.
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