Revision with unchanged content. 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.