Sue Cheesman- University of Waikato
Sue Cheesman
- University of Waikato
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Introduction
Sue Cheesman is a teacher, choreographer, researcher and a Senior Lecturer works in Dance Education at the University of Waikato, Hamilton, NZ. She has an eclectic background in dance with emphasis on contemporary and has worked in the fields of education and integrated dance for many years particularly in relation to the work of Touch Compass Dance Company. Recent research has centred on: several articles in relation to her own teaching practice within community and educational settings, dance and disability, dance education and choreography particularly in relation to site-specific work. Her research is published in a number of international journals.
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The arts have a crucial role in empowering young people with special needs through diverse dance initiatives. Inclusive pedagogy that integrates all students in a rich, equitable and just dance programmes within education frameworks are occurring alongside enabling projects by community groups and in the professional dance world where many high pro...
Gardner (1983, 1993) has long argued that education privileges certain intelligences, primarily the linguistic and the logical-mathematical. As the arts tend to emphasise ways of knowing outside these intelligences, their marginalised status is exacerbated. A recent two-year project in eight primary schools on dance, drama, music and visual art fou...
This article, through interrogating, exploring, and probing my pedagogical practice, aims to probe the issues and complexities involved in teaching dance education with university students studying to be primary classroom teachers in New Zealand. Drawing on two decades of experience, working with students in initial teacher education programs, this...
In this paper I am particularly interested in unpacking the notion that dancers with a visible disability are both marginalised and hyper-visible. I refer to selected dance examples available on YouTube and consider these in relation to Whatley’s (2007) presumption of difference indicators in support of my aim to expand research into the area of da...
This article investigates significant issues in dance education in schools. The first section of this article begins with a reprint of an interview originally published in Dance News 33 (December 1985), the quarterly magazine of the New Zealand Dance Federation Inc. Raewyn Whyte interviewed dance educators Shirley Ririe and Joan Woodbury from Utah...
Integrated dance has featured in several publications from the mid‐1990's onwards, particularly from the standpoints of equity of access, and contesting perceptions of dominant conventional notions of what dance is and who can dance including issues of embodiment and representation. Other publications and manuals focus primarily on how to teach int...
In teaching and facilitating dance in community and educational contexts, in what way does being "able bodied" while working with disabled/non-disabled participants/students require sensitivity and negotiation? What status issues arise in such a pedagogical context? This presentation seeks to identify and unpack some of the negotiations, issues and...
Much of what happens in primary classrooms reflects a number of rituals and routines that have largely become an unconscious part of teachers' repertoires. While these 'rituals of practice' provide a framework or structure to learning in classrooms, they are often left unexamined. These taken-for-granted ways of teaching require close examination i...
Somatic teacher and sage Sondra Fraleigh discusses somatics and Butoh. Sondra Fraleigh is an American academic, accomplished writer and well-renowned teacher of dance, particularly in the field of somatics. In January this year, Sondra accepted an invitation from the Soul Centre in Auckland to visit New Zealand. This article has been published in t...
In the area of Dance Education particularly in a primary education context there are several publications on how to teach dance from a variety of philosophical standpoints (Stinson, 1997; Gough, 1999; Autard-Smith, 2002; Cone and Cone, 2005; McCutchen, 2006). Recent research into dance pedagogy analysed the concepts and approaches to creativity by...
Tempo Festival of Dance this year featured many shorter works in shared programme formats. The venue, TAPAC, acted as an ambient hub for this festival.
Review: ‘Women and Honour: Notes on Lying’ had four creative collaborators including choreographer Clare Luiten. Charlotte Rose produced an atmospheric music score, which enhanced the work admirably, likewise for the pools of light designed by Sean Curran. This article has been published in the journal: DANZ Quarterly. Used with permission.
Olive Bieringa, a first generation New Zealander, and Otto Ramstad, a third generation American, travel the globe by desire and necessity in order to connect with land, family, explore new cultural contexts and sustain their work practices in dance. These two co-directors, dance performers and video artists regularly return to New Zealand, this tim...
DVD review of Move it (Dance class choreographed and taught by Anita Hutchins). This article has been published in the journal: DANZ Quarterly. Used with permission.
Wendy Wallace has been the associate director and head of contemporary dance at the New Zealand School of Dance, in Wellington for over eight years. She is now moving to Auckland to become rehearsal director for Black Grace. Sue Cheesman talks to her about her time with the school and her new role with the company. This article has been published i...
Sue Cheesman talks to Billy Paea, director of DZIAH, a South Auckland-based hip hop dance crew. This article has been published in the journal: DANZ Quarterly. Used with permission.
Neil Ieremia, artistic director of Black Grace, has gone back to his Samoan roots for inspiration for the new full length work ‘Gathering Clouds’. This article has been published in the journal: DANZ Quarterly. Used with permission.
Ka maumahara tonu tatou ki a ratou - we will remember them…poignant last words… bidding farewell to a generation of veterans moving on...leaving fragments of memories and diaries for children/grandchildren to honour, celebrate and remember …black costumes billow, fold, swirl and wrap the dancers bodies…wide sweeping arm movements…jumps and turns…sl...
Review of the dance: The Nature of Wishing. This article has been published in the journal: DANZ Quarterly. Used with permission.
Review of dance: Fluid This article has been published in the journal: DANZ Quarterly. Used withpermission.
Review of the dance performance, The Collection This article has been published in the journal: DANZ Quarterly. Used with permission.
Review of Acquisitions 06. This article has been published in the journal: DANZ Quarterly. Used with permission.
