Rhoda Dullea

Munster Technological University | MTU · School of Music

Dance as a performing art can be marginalized in general school arts provision, included in curriculum for its benefits in health and well-being rather than its intrinsic aesthetic appeal. In the Irish national curriculum, dance is primarily categorized as physical education, and can be culturally decontextualized because of this approach. Arts par...

Dance as a performing art can be marginalized in general school arts provision, included in curriculum primarily for its benefits in health and well-being rather than for its intrinsic aesthetic and cultural interest. In the Irish national curriculum, dance is primarily categorized as physical education, and can be culturally decontextualized becau...

This qualitative case study examines the creative pedagogies employed by artist-educators working with adolescents in the Canadian Opera Company (COC)’s Summer Opera Camp Senior Company in July 2016, at the home of COC in the Four Seasons Arts Centre, Toronto. Artist-educators from a number of operatic production domains joined forces to enable a c...

Developing expertise in opera theatre performance involves the learning and combining of multiple performance skills that are continually honed over a lifetime of professional participation in an operatic community of practice. Drawing on ideas about embodied cognition and situated learning, this study investigates the experiential learning that ta...

In recent years, opera companies throughout the United Kingdom have begun to provide educational programs for children that offer opportunities for “apprenticeship” training in the context of professional opera productions, alongside formal choral musicianship training. This article outlines a qualitative case study of a recently established childr...

The nineteenth century saw the beginnings of a fascination for ‘naïve’ folk art as a supposed encapsulation of ‘national spirit’, a fascination which juxtaposed and frequently intersected with a growing interest by many composers in the creation of didactic art music for children. Folk themes, considered ‘child-like’ and ‘pure’ in character, inform...