Resilience Training in Dance: On Toxic Positivity, Attentional Focus, and Playful Discomfort

Building and sustaining a dance career requires more than technical and artistic skills; it requires psychological resilience. How might resilience training be effectively integrated within dance education? What might be the pitfalls associated with resilience training? What might be strategies to o...

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Published in:The international journal of arts education 2022, Vol.18 (1), p.17-34
Main Author: Laberge-Côté, Louis
Format: Article
Language:English
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Dance education
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Summary:Building and sustaining a dance career requires more than technical and artistic skills; it requires psychological resilience. How might resilience training be effectively integrated within dance education? What might be the pitfalls associated with resilience training? What might be strategies to overcome these challenges? While considering the works of various psychologists, psychiatrists, educators, historians, philosophers, scientists, movement specialists, and artists, this paper examines the concept of psychological resilience, how it might be fostered in dance education, and proposes a pedagogical approach rooted in the practice of mental imagery, playfulness, collectivity, contradiction, sensoriality, and external attentional focus.
ISSN:2326-9944
2327-0306
DOI:10.18848/2326-9944/CGP/v18i01/17-34