Testing creativity of dance students in the Peoples Republic of China

Article Abstract:

A study conducted by Zhao Guo Wei based on J.P. Guilford's creativity tests indicated that students from dancing schools were less creative than their peers getting a more general education. Zhao believes that the teaching methods in the dancing schools stress imitation and thus curb all experimentation and curiosity. Her tests, administered to students from the Beijing Dance Institute, the Shangai Dancing School and the Wanshousi Middle School, involved students drawing innovative pictures from an egg-shaped circle as base and finding titles for two stories. Zhao proposes changes in teaching methodology which will encourage and nurture creativity in the students. While the suggestions will be helpful, questions about the universal application of any creativity test need to be examined.

Testing, Study and teaching, Creative ability, Creativity tests

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"I feel like I'm going to take off!": young people's experiences of the superordinary in dance

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A survey was conducted among approximately 600 young people between the ages of three and eighteen from Australia, Canada, the United States, Saipan, and several other states in the United States to find about the nature and meaning of young people's experiences in dance. The study reveals that a large and diverse sample of children and adolescents have articulated dance as an experience of high self; a place of enchantment, possibility, integration, and creative flight.

Australia, Canada, Surveys, Dancing for children, Children's dancing

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Dialogues: thinking through dance

Article Abstract:

Ann Daly's recent tripartite meditation on dance scholarship and feminist theory is a compelling reconsideration of the pathways she traveled and danced. Her essays show different points of view that reflect the individual development of her ways of seeing and the collective development of a community of thoughtful viewers.

Public affairs, Authors, Writers, Speeches, lectures and essays, Daly, Ann

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