Critical evaluation in the choreography class

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Choreography classes need to teach students how to respond critically to others' work. Traditionally, dances have been criticized either in terms of the subjective responses elicited or by setting up the teacher's view as the appropriate criticism. David Ecker's method of aesthetic inquiry provides a much better model for analyzing dance, incorporating an observation phase, a reflection phase and a discussion phase. A revisions phase and one evaluating the revisions provide an appropriate conclusion.

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Understanding interpretation

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The interpretation of art forms such as dance are typically divided into author-centered and viewer-centered interpretation. The first attempts to make an accurate guess of what the artist intends while the other allows subjectivity in judgment that results in multiple interpretations. A more effective method for interpretation is for the viewer to seek a personal meaning by considering also the objective elements of a work.

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Post-Historical dance criticism

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The author discusses found and conceptual art as the two practices, key to the twentieth-century effacement of the distinction between art and reality. The kind of evaluative dance criticism that are needed now for the professional dance critics and in academic dance programs are outlined.

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