The Academic Technique in the Latin American Corps The academic technique in the Latin american corps

Abstract

Based on the reflection on the strategies used by university dance teachers and students to teach and learn academic technique in Latin American bodies, it investigates the conscious and unconscious understanding of certain pedagogical approaches to academic technique that seek to overcome the distance that relates two different historical and cultural realities: academic technique and the Latin American body. Through a historical journey and the analysis of the influencing factors collected in interviews with teachers and students, it is possible to identify fundamental issues to be addressed in the symbiosis of these elements that seem, at times, so distant from each other and that they intervene in the development of the university academic technique. The consideration in the classroom of the factors collected in the interviews sheds light on a new conception of academic technique that is being carried out in the classrooms. A new look is being built that calls into question the unification and homogenization and that makes room for diversity as the main Latin American identity characteristic. Finally, this openness to modifying the rigid determining parameters of academic technique in favor of diversity constitutes a manifestation of sociopolitical resistance, as it responds to the questioning of external impositions to their Latin American identities.

Dance Pedagogy

Latin American

Bodies

Academic Technique

Syncretism

Identity