Choreographer/researcher/teacher: Developing a/r/tography as an approach to dance pedagogy at Stockholm University of the Arts in a professional learning community of teachers
2025 (English) In: Nordic Journal of Art & Research, ISSN 2535-7328, Vol. 14, no 2, p. 1-27Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
This article follows the becoming a/r/tographic of four colleagues working within the field of dance pedagogy at Stockholm University of the Arts. The four colleagues – Tone, Camilla, Stina, Madelaine - are part of a larger professional learning community of staff that together have carried out a 3-year long change project restructuring the BA program in dance pedagogy. As a result, the BA has been given an a/r/tographic approach, emphasizing the entangled positions of the artist, researcher, and teacher in dance pedagogy. Another result is the open course A/r/tography in theory and practice in higher education (7.5 ects), which was developed to qualify staff to work through a/r/tography. The four authors of this article were all involved in the first round of the open course, Tone as course teacher, and Camilla, Stina, and Madelaine as staff-students. The course is the entanglement from which they have explored the question that guides this article: How is a/r/ography being developed for the field of dance pedagogy in the context of Stockholm University of the Arts in an ongoing collaborative learning community of teachers? Their exploration is based in a diffractive methodology, thinks-with theory from a/r/tography and expanded choreography, and has resulted in three a/r/tographic expositions on Research Catalogue. The insights arrived at are discussed as: values; performative pedagogy; expanded choreography; a researching approach as choreographers/researchers/teachers; and professional development of staff in higher dance education.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages 2025. Vol. 14, no 2, p. 1-27
Keywords [en]
a/r/tography, higher dance education, professional learning community, expanded choreography, diffractive methodology
National Category
Pedagogy Performing Arts
Research subject Dance pedagogy; Dance pedagogy
Identifiers URN: urn:nbn:se:uniarts:diva-2270 DOI: 10.7577/ar.5460 OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uniarts-2270 DiVA, id: diva2:2020286
Note The article travels into three expositions on Research Cataloge:
Camilla’s explorative process of becoming-artographic as leader of the change project revising the BA in dance pedagogy https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/989428/989429
Tone’s explorative process of becoming-artographic as designer and course coordinator of the open course A//tography in theory and practice in higher education(7.5 ECT) https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2088698/2088699
Stina’s explorative process of becoming-artographic as staff-student on the open course A/r/tography in theory and practice in higher education https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2731837/2731838
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2025-12-102025-12-102026-01-08 Bibliographically approved