talking-dancing-howling-walking-whispering-spiraling… Learning English while performing a dance score from the 1970s

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dc.contributor.authorBenoit, Agnès
dc.date.accessioned2025-10-29T12:26:25Z
dc.date.available2025-10-29T12:26:25Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.description.abstract“Moving Words in Space” is an artistic and teaching practice based on a dialogue between dance improvisation and language learning. I have been developing this teaching approach with adults for the last twenty-five years, but I have also used it with children to teach English under the name “Jump’n Turn”. In this contribution, I retrace the developmental stages of “Moving Words in Space”, before describing how I use performance scores to introduce children to the English language through “Jump'n Turn”. To illustrate this process, I use “Scramble” (1970), an exercise and performance score originally created by the American dancer and choreographer Simone Forti. The tasks are extremely simple yet have a strong pedagogical potential. I explain how I guide young children through the activities so they can experience language fully through movement while performing a score that was created during the development of postmodern dance in the United States.en
dc.description.statusNot peer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
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dc.identifier.citationBenoit, A. (2025) 'talking-dancing-howling-walking-whispering-spiraling…: Learning English while performing a dance score from the 1970s', Scenario: A Journal of Performative Teaching, Learning, Research, 19(1), pp. 96-108. https://doi.org/10.33178/scenario.19.1.6en
dc.identifier.doi10.33178/scenario.19.1.6
dc.identifier.endpage108
dc.identifier.issn1649-8526
dc.identifier.issued1
dc.identifier.journalabbrevScenarioen
dc.identifier.journaltitleScenario: A Journal for Performative Teaching, Learning, Researchen
dc.identifier.startpage96
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/18128
dc.identifier.volume19
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherDepartment of German, University College Corken
dc.rights© 2025, the Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subjectDanceen
dc.subjectEnglish learningen
dc.subjectPerformanceen
dc.subjectArts-based language educationen
dc.subjectDance improvisationen
dc.subjectMovementen
dc.subjectPerformance scoreen
dc.titletalking-dancing-howling-walking-whispering-spiraling… Learning English while performing a dance score from the 1970sen
dc.typeArticle (non peer-reviewed)en
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