Teaching What You Want to Learn
A Guidebook for Emerging and Established Dance and Movement Teachers
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publishing:24th Nov '26
£37.99
This title is due to be published on 24th November, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
This paperback is available in another edition too:
- Hardback£155.00(9781041152507)
This new and expanded edition of Teaching What You Want to Learn includes 124 essential essays based on the foundational values of Evans’ pedagogy: Embracing Change, Cultivating Community, Honoring Personal Uniqueness, Seeking Specificity, Facilitating Active Learning and Dancing as an Expression of the Human Spirit. It is an eloquent and practical guide for both emerging and established teachers of dance and movement.
Evans has responded to current challenges faced by dance and movement educators. At a time when mobile devices, social media and Artificial Intelligence control how students engage in learning, and socio-political divisiveness increasingly adds stress to their lives, he offers methods and ideas to reflect on and refine teaching as a healing alternative to our troubling times. New essays include: “Supporting Trauma-Affected and Neurodivergent Learners,” “Teaching is Also Learning,” “Preparing Students for their Future, Not our Past” and “Evolving Your Personal Pedagogy,”,
Evans contextualizes his guidelines by sharing the crystallizing life and artistic events that sparked his embrace of the strategies and methods he has gleaned from his six-decade career as an educator, performer, choreographer and practitioner of the Laban/Bartenieff Movement System. This is a significant book for all new teachers of dance and movement as well as for established professionals who have not recently re-examined their own work.
"BRAVO, BILL! You have given all of us educators a valuable gift by delineating your open humanitarian approach to teaching! You have passed on vital information that needs to be available for all new teachers of dance, as well as for long-time professionals who might not have re-examined their own teaching lately!”
—Peggy Hackney, world leader in Laban/Bartenieff Movement Studies and author of Making Connections: Total Body Connectivity through Bartenieff Fundamentals
“An abundance of insight, gathered over a lifetime of teaching, choreographing, and performing. Evans provides a treasure trove of examples of incorporating effective practices and language, including that of images, prompts, anatomical clarity, all given to support deepening our students’ experience of themselves dancing. Evans’ personal journey through a long career of teaching dance while maintaining and generating enthusiasm and openness is an inspiration to fellow teachers to continue to grow and learn. His insights are specific, life affirming and useful. A rich resource for both new and experienced dance teachers. An inspiration. Wise and generous.”
—Claire Porter, renowned Guggenheim Fellow, choreographer, writer and performance artist
“Teaching What You Want to Learn, is a series of short, accessible and enlightening essays that celebrate the transformational power of critical thinking. Evans advocates for teaching the whole dancer by nurturing their intellect, emotions and physicality. A personal favorite are the For Your Consideration questions at the end of each essay that invite the reader to reflect on their own learning experience and how to enact change. A must read for anyone who values the learning process and is interested in teaching dance!”
—Edisa Weeks, Bessie recipient, choreographer, performer and professor of dance at Queens College, New York, USA
ISBN: 9781041152491
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268 pages
2nd edition