NDEO's Journal of Dance Education (JoDE)

Volume 21, Issue 2, April-June 2021
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Feature Articles 
It Takes a Family to Graduate a Dancer - Jasmin ‘Ofamo’oni MA - Pages: 63-71 | DOI: 10.1080/15290824.2020.1821204
“African Dance Is My Therapy”: Perspectives On the Unique Health Benefits of West African Dance - Kyaien O. Conner PhD, LSW, MPH, Juanita Patterson-Price MS & Niche Faulkner MS - Pages: 72-81 | DOI: 10.1080/15290824.2019.1678751
Makyung in Contemporary Malaysia: Strategies for Preservation and Proliferation - Joseph Gonzales PhD - Pages: 82-91 | DOI: 10.1080/15290824.2019.1683564
Traditional Challenges, Challenging Tradition: Helping Students Find Agency in Bharata-Natyam at the Junction of Ancient Indian Thought, Somatic Practices & Feminist Pedagogy - Sumana Sen Mandala MFA - Pages: 92-102 | DOI: 10.1080/15290824.2019.1705304
Teaching the Dance Subject in Australian High Schools - Sally Gardner PhD, MA & Olivia Millard PhD - Pages: 103-113 | DOI: 10.1080/15290824.2019.1705305
In Practice Article 
Activities for Humanizing Dance Pedagogy: Immersive Learning in Practice - Doug Risner PhD, MFA - Pages: 114-120 | DOI: 10.1080/15290824.2019.1678753
NDEO Reports
NDEO Year in Review 2020: Overcoming Challenges, Priming for Transformation - Susan McGreevy-Nichols BS & Shannon Dooling-Cain MFA - Pages: 121-124 | DOI: 10.1080/15290824.2021.1913956
Book and Media Reviews 
Out Loud: A Memoir - edited by Mark Morris and Wesley Stace, Penguin Press, 2019, 374 pages; $30.00 (hardcover) - Heather Trommer-Beardslee MFA - Pages: 125-125 | DOI: 10.1080/15290824.2020.1716296
La Meri and Her Life in Dance: Performing the World - By Nancy Lee Chalfa Ruyter. University Press of Florida, 2019. 312 pages; $34.95 (Hardcover) - Christine Mazeppa MS - Pages: 125-126 | DOI: 10.1080/15290824.2020.1718429
Jerome Robbins, by Himself - By Amanda Vaill (Edited and Commentary). Alfred A. Knopf, New York, NY10019, 2019. 430 pages; $40.00 (Hardback). ISBN: 9780451494665 - Luke Kahlich EdD - Pages: 126-127 | DOI: 10.1080/15290824.2020.1734769
ChoreoGraphics: Six Studies - Judith Stuart Boroson. Outskirts Press, Inc., 2020. 113 pages; $26.95 (paper) - Dawn Davis Loring MFA - Pages: 127-127 | DOI: 10.1080/15290824.2020.1749504
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui: Dramaturgy and Engaged Spectatorship - (New World Choreographies) Lise Uytterhoeven. Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. 245 pages; $84.99 (hardcover), e-book. - Gretchen McLaine PhD - Pages: 127-128 | DOI: 10.1080/15290824.2020.1755774
JoDE - Two Special Issues: Call for Papers
Asian and South Asian Dance in
US Postsecondary Dance Education
Submission Deadline: September 15, 2021

The Journal of Dance Education invites manuscript submissions which discuss the pedagogies of Asian and South Asian dance in postsecondary education in the United States for possible publication. Accepted articles will be published in JoDE and may become part of a specialized collection focused on Asian and South Asian dance in US postsecondary education.
Over the last few years, deep political, social, and racial fissures have surfaced in the US that necessitate a need to discuss the role that dance and its associated discourses play in academia. As more and more Asian and South Asian dance forms, dancers, and students populate the dance studios of US academia, it is time that dance education confront the racist, sexist, ableist, and colonial modes that are embedded in the way that this transition often takes place, especially as instances of racial violence are on the rise. The cost of inclusion should not be an erasure where much of the plurality, difference, and fluidity of content and pedagogy­–aspects that make these forms valuable to dance education–are lost. It is important then that the dance education community consider what this inclusion implies and generate scholarship to think through the shifts engendered by this diversity of movement pedagogy in the understanding of dance education and its outcomes.

For more information please contact Karen Schupp: karen.schupp@asu.edu
or Aadya Kaktikar: aadya.kaktikar@snu.edu.in
Dance Education for Children and Youth: Our Future as a Field
Submission Deadline: November 1, 2021

Children (infant-adolescent) and youth (adolescent-18 years) are the future of dance education. If we look to the teaching and learning of dance for children and youth in PK-12 schools, private studios, dance organizations, and communities, we can gain insight into future dance education trajectories, such as what the needs for higher education might be and possible directions for professional dance. While this Special Issue is not specifically about the global COVID-19 pandemic’s effect on dance education, the pandemic has undoubtedly shaped research, scholarship, teaching, and learning in dance education, and therefore, manuscripts that reference the pandemic are welcome.  

For more information please contact the Special Issue Editor, 
Alison Leonard at aleona2@clemson.edu
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