Emotionally Intelligent Ballet Training (EIBT) provides a research-based
compendium of learning and teaching activities and offers a way forward
for ballet teachers and student dancers seeking to improve their social
and emotional learning and teaching tools, to enhance the quality of
vocational dance training and to foster artistic, social and technical
competence. Learning and teaching ballet at the highest level puts great
demands on the individual. Student dancers must cope with their own
expectations and career goals alongside the intense demands of
traditional authoritarian ballet pedagogy. Ballet teachers are under
pressure to foster, nurture and teach ballet to highly talented
adolescents in mental and physical preparation for a successful career
in dance, an extremely competitive profession. This book explores the
emotional aspects of learning and teaching ballet at elite dance
conservatoires using an inductive-deductive research methodology,
outlining the potential of applying the concept of social and emotional
learning and teaching in a dance-specific context. This work will
interest not only dance scholars, but also ballet teachers and student
dancers in vocational training institutions. At present, EIBT is the
only programme that uses emotional intelligence theories in a dance
educational context, bringing emotional learning and teaching to the
centre of dance education.
