The Role of Dance Education for Personality Development of Upper Primary School Students

This paper studies the history of dance education in Manipur and social value, psychomotor domain, and creative development of students at the school curriculum in Manipur (India). Dance education plays an essential role in molding a person into a perfect human being with good health and behaviour in society. It also furnishes the essential elements humans need to live in our society other than imparting knowledge and skills. In overall development, Manipuri dance plays the most crucial role in the school curriculum. The descriptive research method used in this study revealed the importance and the role of dance education for the four upper primary school students, i.e., class VI to class VIII of Imphal West District and Imphal East District, where dance class had been adopted as one of the subjects in these schools. The 915 students have been taken from the following four schools: Kendriya Vidyalaya-Lamphelpat, Tolchou Ibeton Memorial Academy-Hiyangthang, Rajkumari Sanatombi Devi Vidyalaya-Haotal Pangei, and SL Arena of Learning-Khurai Khaidem Leikai. The researcher collected 70% of students’ respondents, of which 287 are males and 343 are females out of 630 students. Finally, the investigator has found that the social value of students is significantly improving due to dance education. Dance education helped in realizing one’s own potential for self-enhancement, confidence, problem-solving, and creativity among the students. Moreover, it also developed and enhanced the psychomotor domain and the students’ creativity to a certain extent. Thus, dance education should be made compulsory as a curriculum subject at all levels of schools.

Das Übergangstraining

ZusammenfassungNeben der Vorbeugung von akuten und chronischen Schäden ist im professionellen Bühnentanz bei gesundheitlichen Problemen am Muskel-Skelett-System eine intensive – dem Berufssport vergleichbare – Rehabilitation unter Berücksichtigung tanzspezifischer Bewegungselemente von großer Bedeutung. In Kombination mit anderen, die Leistungsfähigkeit wiederherstellenden Maßnahmen ist das in diesem Beitrag erläuterte sog. Übergangstraining („transition dance class“) als Trainingsform im Rahmen der stufenweisen beruflichen Wiedereingliederung von zentraler Bedeutung, da es die Übergangsphase zwischen allgemeinen Maßnahmen einer Rehabilitation und dem Wiedererreichen der vollständigen Arbeitsfähigkeit im Tanzberuf darstellt.

I Feel Like I Am Flying and Full of Life: Contemporary Dance for Parkinson’s Patients

Parkinson’s is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by motor and non-motor symptoms which are strongly associated with patients’ quality of life, affecting social skills and support. It strikes not only the motor abilities but may harm cognitive and emotional functioning. For the past 15 years, contemporary dance has been employed as an intervention to help people diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease cope physically and mentally by way of motor, vestibular, and sensory stimulation as well as social interaction. In this study we aimed to examine psychological flexibility, creative self-efficacy and quality of life of Parkinson’s patients participating in contemporary dance sessions. To obtain this goal we conducted a cross-sectional comparative study of 50 Parkinson’s patients aged 50–87 years, half of which had been participating for at least 3 months once a week, in contemporary dance classes, and the matched controls participated in a verbal support group. Study participants completed questionnaires after participating in a dance class (Intervention) or in a support group (control). Participants in the intervention group were also asked to answer three open-ended questions that examined the experience of participating in contemporary dance classes. We found that psychological flexibility and quality of life were significantly higher in the dance class participants. Participants reported positive changes that occur in their overall feeling and quality of life following their participation in dance classes. Since PD patients’ experiences are deeply embedded in the body, it is significant to explore the use of movement in treatment. The importance of the study is in its potential to highlight the relationship between psychological flexibility and quality of life and to increase awareness of clinicians treating Parkinson’s patients to the importance of incorporating dance as an inherent part of a multidisciplinary team effort.

Situating embodied instruction – proxemics and body knowledge

In various ways the movement and experience of the body is instructed by others. This may be in the dance class or on the playing field. In these interactions, one person claims knowledge of the other’s body and rights to instruct how that body functions, moves, and feels. By undertaking a close analysis of embodied and spoken interaction within performance training sessions from a multimodal conversation analytic perspective, this paper will identify one kind of broad sequential trajectory – from intimate contact to public display - that shows how an instructor claims rights over the internal workings of another’s body by traversing different levels of proximity and sensorial modalities.

How Jews Learned to Dance

Dance classes were a key site for negotiating Jewish gender roles. Beyond simply training young people in proper physical deportment, dance lessons also guided them through gender, social, and class expectations, including those related to more tender emotions. Traditionally pious Jews learned to dance so that they could participate properly in weddings and other festive community celebrations. Acculturated and upwardly mobile Jews took advantage of the opportunity dance lessons offered to mingle with socially advantageous contacts. In this sense, dance lessons rehearsed the importance of balls for courtship. Even before they began seeking out marriage partners, young people learned how to behave on the dance floor and practiced appropriate behavior with their dancing partners. While Yiddish texts question whether dance lessons are compatible with proper sexual morality, German texts are concerned with the possibility of embarrassing oneself in a dance class.

Pengaruh media pembelajaran interaktif tari Melinting terhadap hasil pendidikan karakter dan hasil belajar seni tari

Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk: 1.) Mengetahui pengaruh media pembelajaran interaktif tari Melinting terhadap hasil pendidikan karakter dan hasil belajar seni tari siswa kelas XI di SMA Negeri 5 Yogyakarta; dan 2.) Mengetahui nilai signifikan pengaruh media pembelajaran interaktif tari Melinting terhadap hasil pendidikan karakter dan hasil belajar seni tari siswa kelas XI di SMA Negeri 5 Yogyakarta. Metode penelitian ini merupakan eksperimen semu (quasy experiment) dengan desain non-equaivalent group design. Adapun pengumpulan data didapatkan dari angket hasil pendidikan karakter dan tes hasil belajar seni tari pada materi nusantara yaitu tari Melinting. Berdasarkan dari Manova Test didapatkan signifikansi hasil pendidikan karakter 0,007 < 0,05. Sedangkan, signifikansi hasil belajar seni tari 0,004 < 0,05, maka didapatkan kesimpulan bahwa media pembelajaran interaktif tari Melinting berpengaruh terhadap hasil pendidikan karakter dan hasil belajar seni tari siswa kelas XI di SMA Negeri 5 Yogyakarta.The effect of interactive learning media Melinting Dance on character education results and the dance learning resultsAbstractThe purpose of this research is to: 1.) To know the effect of interactive learning media of Melinting dance on character education and the result of dance student learning of class XI in SMA Negeri 5 Yogyakarta; 2.) To know the significant value of interactive learning media influence of Melinting dance to the result of character education and dance student learning of class XI in SMA Negeri 5 Yogyakarta. This research method is a quasi-experimental design with a non-equivalent group design, from the data obtained from the questionnaire result of character education and test result of dance learning on the material of Nusantara that is Melinting dance. Based on Manova Test, the significance of the character education result is 0.007<0.05. Meanwhile, the importance of the dance art learning result is 0.004<0.05. Then got the conclusion that interactive learning media Melinting Dance affects character education results and the result of dance class student learning at SMA Negeri 5 Yogyakarta.