‘Sharing’
In my dance pedagogical sessions, the findings of artistic explorations are communicated in various ways, through performing, showing, or, as I choose to frame it here, through sharing. My aim with the sharing phase of the sessions is to connect the movement explorations to dance as a performing art, which includes the aspect of communicating through movement. There are many ways to do this, and during this research I became increasingly interested in finding ways to share that are less oriented by traditional performer–spectator dualism, and rather represent more reciprocal ways of coming together and intra-acting while sharing.
In this section, I analyse the process of the artistic–pedagogical event Käännöksiä – Transpositions, which constituted the pre-examined artistic component of this research. Through diffractive reading of research materials and related theories, I aim to elucidate how and what kind of new knowledge the process allowed to surface. My guiding question in this process is: What new possibilities for dancing–teaching–researching does the pre-examined artistic component open up?
By engaging in a thorough and critical exploration of research materials and related theoretical texts, I clarify how new knowledge was created and detail its embodied, experiential, and relational nature. Furthermore, I present the new directions in research and dance pedagogical practice that this process generates—developments I refer to as Openings—which I further elaborate on in the section ‘Reflecting’ on the Openings through Discussion.