Invitation to Practitioners
Monday 9th - Wednesday 11 July (10am-5pm each day); Saturday 21 July (10am-4pm)
Performance Hub, University of Wolverhampton, Gorway Road, Walsall, WS1 3BD (free parking available)
£385 (includes the Trinity College registration fee of £125)
The first three days will cover the application of safe practice in dance teaching from a dance science perspective. Anatomical, physiological and biomechanical principles relevant to the candidate’s genre will be investigated and discussed.
Issues such as responses to pupils’ different physical needs, sequencing and progression of exercises, communication skills, injury management, nutrition and hydration, and the specificity of warm up and cool down will be explored through lectures, practical sessions, seminars and open discussions.
The Level 5 Safe and Effective Dance Practice qualification syllabus and assessment requirements will be introduced and referred to during these three days.
The fourth day (Saturday 21st July) will incorporate workshops and group and individual tutorials. On that day candidates can come with some practical sections of class work for feedback, and there will be a Q & A session.
Frances Clarke is the Course Leader for BA(Hons) Dance and BA(Hons) Dance and Drama at the University of Wolverhampton, and lectures on the undergraduate dance programme and the postgraduate dance science programme. In a performance career spanning over two decades she primarily worked as a dancer and Artistic Director of Springs Dance Company. As a trained teacher, she has set up and led a number of dance departments (secondary and FE) in the UK, and has worked as an artist in residence and an educational advisor. She gained an MSc (Distinction) in Dance Science and is currently working on her PhD thesis: Static and dynamic balance within dance populations. Frances has been at the University of Wolverhampton since 2004 and lectures on a range of areas including technique, repertoire, dance science, choreography, Laban Movement Analysis, and Labanotation. She supervises dissertations in dance science, education and dance history and analysis, and lectures in performance psychology at postgraduate level. She regularly presents her research at international conferences and has co-authored a number of peer-reviewed journal papers. Frances is a member of the Research Centre for Sport Exercise and Performance at the University of Wolverhampton. She is a Trinity College London examiner for the Certificate in Safe and Effective Dance Practice.
Danielle Aways is the Course Leader for MA Dance at the University of Wolverhampton. She has performed, taught and choreographed in Edmonton, Calgary and Montreal. Her dance training included study at conservatoire and liberal arts institutions, a combination which allows her contribution to a variety of modules. Danielle relocated to the UK from Canada to teach on the choreographic performance and ballet technique modules, and third year dissertations at the University of Wolverhampton. She teaches the Body in Practice module at postgraduate level. Danielle’s technique teaching practice is informed by a passion for anatomy and dance science, while her choreographic teaching is based around helping students away from their learned movement habitus so they can investigate and develop personal choreographic signatures. She has presented her research at international conferences. Danielle has an MSc in Dance Science, and is a certified STOTT Pilates instructor. She is a Trinity College London examiner for the Certificate in Safe and Effective Dance Practice.
