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My first instinct, when discovering I’ve fucked up, is to hide the fact. You know, cover it up.
When I was first learning fall off the log, I’d been quite ill with flu, and it was a really hot, humid Brisbane night. I don’t quite know what [...]
Who is Marshall Stearns?
By dogpossum On 11th April, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In history, learning, lindy hop and other dances, teaching
I’m writing some notes for our students on FB, so I figured I’d let the content free, here in the unfenced part of the internet.
Who?
Marshall Stearns.
Stearns was a jazz music and dance historian and reseacher, who was involved in the founding of the Institute of Jazz Studies.
Most [...]
Using history in dance classes
By dogpossum On 18th February, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In history, learning, lindy hop and other dances, research, teaching
I’m very interested in discussions about history and historical research. I’ve written about a million billion times before (this post ‘Try To Write About Jazz’ sums up some of my thinking). One of the things I’m most interested in is the way dancers use history. We do a lot of things with historical narrative [...]
I am so done.
By dogpossum On 15th February, 2013 · 8 Comments · In learning, lindy hop and other dances, menz, same sex dancing, wimminz
Firstly:
I am so trashed. I am so wrecked. My poor, poor body. We raised > $2000 for the Taree Women and Children’s Refuge last night at One Billion (Jazz Dancers) Rising. It was an event run by a gang of women (with some male helpers) – which is really business as usual in [...]
Gendering dance talk
By dogpossum On 7th February, 2013 · 4 Comments · In academia, learning, lindy hop and other dances, menz, research, teaching, wimminz
My MA used lots of discourse analysis theory, which looks at the way language and words are used in written texts. I’ve also done some spoken discourse analysis work (which isn’t the same as linguistics, though there’s some crossover). I’ve been fascinated by the way spoken discourse analysis theory works in an online environment, where [...]
Dealing with Problem Guys in dance classes
By dogpossum On 27th December, 2012 · 6 Comments · In learning, learning, lindy hop and other dances, menz, teaching, wimminz
If you’ve ever done a lindy hop class ever, chances are you’ve come across a Problem Guy. Problem Guys are just that – problems. They interrupt the teachers. They talk while the teachers are talking. They instruct the follows in class (usually incorrectly) and they just. won’t. shut. up. They often move themselves up class [...]
Learning
By dogpossum On 23rd December, 2012 · 2 Comments · In learning, learning, lindy hop and other dances, menz, teaching, wimminz
God I write long posts. I just sit down, write ‘em, then give them a quick edit. Sorry about that. It’s how I wrote my thesis. But with my thesis, I edited the thing. I don’t edit blog posts because WHO CARES. So, brace for impact, yo.
Some friends of mine have started getting together [...]
You’d think nothing had been happening round here.
But everything has been happening.
Firstly, we had to finish off classes for the year. We were so tired out, it was a relief, and yet it’s a poo to interrupt the learnz. But knowing when to rest is important.
Secondly, we had MLX. The [...]
self-directed learning
By dogpossum On 19th November, 2012 · 4 Comments · In learning, lindy hop and other dances, teaching
I’m stupid busy today, so I don’t have time to round up all my thoughts properly. That means that this post will be typically chaotic, full of spurious assertions and otherwise mo with the dodge.
But I want to keep a note of my responses to robcorr’s latest post about homework, which [...]
Valuing the process rather than the product
By dogpossum On 14th November, 2012 · 2 Comments · In learning, lindy hop and other dances, teaching
Note: this posts contradicts itself quite a bit.
That’s because this is just a series of thoughts. I should learn to edit posts, eh?
Here are three things that’ve been rolling about in my head this week.
1. A friend told me a story about Skye Humphries. Someone in a class at Herrang asked [...]
