Students left to right: Lavinia Gabriele, William Huntington, Jenna Charko, Jenny Wang, Camille Menaged
On Friday, May 10, Assistant Arts Professor, Elizabeth Coker, organized a Tisch Dance Science Fair for her Research Topics in Dance Science students to present their projects.
Research Topics in Dance Science is a seminar-style course focused on the production of scientific and pedagogical knowledge in dance. This course will address issues specific to current research in dance from multiples perspectives including neuro-cognition, motor learning, elite performance, and teaching. We will discuss how and where research in dance is created, who accesses the literature, and how knowledge is applied contextually to the studio, onstage and clinically. The course is grounded in principles of scientific literacy and critical interrogation of scientific texts. Students will be guided through creating their own research questions and the course will culminate in a formal proposal to investigate these questions.
This course is intended to be accessible to dance majors and minors and graduate students, as well as any other students with an interest or background in dance, movement training or teaching, and/or biobehavioral research. Research Topics in Dance Science strives to facilitate the creative production of novel areas of research in dance and to empower students through access to and critical investigation of traditional and ongoing modes of dance inquiry.
Pictured left to right: Jenny Wang, Jenna Charko, Prof. Pamela Pietro, Lavinia Gabriele
