Enlighten webinars

This webinar highlights the mental and physical demands placed upon a student dancer within different dance environments; class, rehearsal, and performance. We will explore how these demands can affect students and outline strategies for teachers to support their health and wellbeing.

Session aims:

• Identify the different types of load (mechanical, psychological and physiological) involved in dance and highlight the demands classical ballet places on the body
• Explore strategies that can optimise a dancer’s health and wellbeing.

This webinar looks at ways to increase range of motion in dancers. It will reflect upon current research and the evidence underpinning best practice, and identify strategies to help teachers accommodate different stages of development and growth.

Session aims

• Consider the science behind increasing range of motion in young dancers
• Highlight different techniques for optimising range of motion that will take into account growth, maturation and physiology
• Discuss effective methods of safely developing range of motion.

This session will look at different ways of understanding and enhancing good postural alignment by using concepts and techniques used in the Franklin Method. The Franklin Method is a way of understanding and improving movement potential through engaging the body and mind equally. This webinar will include a short practical element.

Session aims:

•  Explore techniques that will enhance postural alignment through proprioceptive and kinaesthetic feedback
•  Increase body awareness, which will contribute to improved balance and stability
• Explore the use of different types of imagery that can enhance efficient postural patterns
• Develop strategies that will enhance the student’s ability to focus and engage in their own learning process.

This session will look at different pedagogical strategies that can help to develop a student’s physical, cognitive and affective skills by using concepts taken from the Franklin Method. The Franklin Method is a way of understanding and improving movement through engaging the body and mind equally. This webinar will include a very small practical element, no space needed, it can be done standing up or sitting down.

Session aims:

• Experience techniques that enhance proprioceptive and kinaesthetic feedback
• Increase body awareness, contributing to a greater anatomical understanding
•  Explore different types of imagery that help to develop the quality of a movement
• Develop strategies that will enhance the student’s ability to focus and engage in their own learning process.

What makes a musical, artistic dancer? What can we do as teachers to help our students develop skills for communicating and expressing ideas and emotions through movement?

This webinar will explore artistry and musicality in terms of the three learning domains (physical, cognitive and affective), examine various movement dynamics and how they can help us to be both receptive and creative, and discuss ways to give our students opportunities to expand and increase their individual aptitude and potential.

Session aims:

• Highlight areas of pedagogy that relate to the teaching of musicality and artistry
• Identify the ingredients needed to nurture creative, responsive dancers
• Reflect upon areas of teaching that may require further development.

What are the ingredients of a successful teacher? What can we do as teachers to help our students learn?
This session outlines the areas of dance pedagogy that we as teachers need to reflect upon in order to develop our practice.

Session aims:

• Highlight areas of pedagogy in relation to the teaching of dance
• Identify the ingredients needed for being an outstanding teacher: the five E’s
• Reflect upon areas of teaching that may require professional development.