This chapter examines how virtual environments have reshaped dance education, particularly through the lens of improvisation as a signature pedagogy. Drawing on phenomenological, social, and pedagogical theories, it explores how the moving body continues to function as a site of knowledge even when mediated between screens and skin. The research adopts a self-study methodology to analyze how virtual dance teaching and learning can generate new interdisciplinary connections across film, sound, and music. The findings reveal that digital mediation, while initially perceived as a loss of immediacy and copresence, can catalyze innovation by expanding the parameters of dance improvisation. The camera, editing, and sound design become active choreographic partners, transforming students from dancers into hybrid artists capable of negotiating multiple literacies. The chapter proposes a hybrid signature pedagogy for virtual dance education comprising three interrelated movements: inquiry, artifact, and critique. This framework preserves the embodied and reflective dimensions of studio practice while extending these through digital and interdisciplinary collaboration. Ultimately, virtual dance improvisation emerges as a generative site for rethinking embodiment, pedagogy, and creative autonomy. Rather than replacing studio practice, it offers fertile ground for reimagining dance education as a multimodal ecology that is at once embodied and mediated, disciplinary and interdisciplinary, local and global. By embracing these hybrid conditions, dance educators can potentially cultivate adaptable, critically engaged learners equipped for the shifting realities of contemporary arts education.

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In-Between Screens and Skin: Creating Opportunities for Interdisciplinary Learning in Virtual Dance Education

  • David Zeitner,
  • Rose Martin

摘要

This chapter examines how virtual environments have reshaped dance education, particularly through the lens of improvisation as a signature pedagogy. Drawing on phenomenological, social, and pedagogical theories, it explores how the moving body continues to function as a site of knowledge even when mediated between screens and skin. The research adopts a self-study methodology to analyze how virtual dance teaching and learning can generate new interdisciplinary connections across film, sound, and music. The findings reveal that digital mediation, while initially perceived as a loss of immediacy and copresence, can catalyze innovation by expanding the parameters of dance improvisation. The camera, editing, and sound design become active choreographic partners, transforming students from dancers into hybrid artists capable of negotiating multiple literacies. The chapter proposes a hybrid signature pedagogy for virtual dance education comprising three interrelated movements: inquiry, artifact, and critique. This framework preserves the embodied and reflective dimensions of studio practice while extending these through digital and interdisciplinary collaboration. Ultimately, virtual dance improvisation emerges as a generative site for rethinking embodiment, pedagogy, and creative autonomy. Rather than replacing studio practice, it offers fertile ground for reimagining dance education as a multimodal ecology that is at once embodied and mediated, disciplinary and interdisciplinary, local and global. By embracing these hybrid conditions, dance educators can potentially cultivate adaptable, critically engaged learners equipped for the shifting realities of contemporary arts education.