Choreographing collaboratories: Studios of situated improvisations

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Journal Article

Publication Title

Children's Geographies

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

School

School of Education / Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA)

RAS ID

40507

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Pollitt, J., Kind, S., Delgado Vintimilla, C., & Blue, L. (2021). Choreographing collaboratories: Studios of situated improvisations. Children's Geographies. Advance online publication.

https://doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2021.2006144

Abstract

This article introduces the concept of situated improvisations. Drawing from two long-term collaboratories in Australia and Canada, the discussion focusses on improvisation as method to unsettle well-trodden pedagogical choreographies in early childhood education. Through co-labouring, we propose situated improvisations as pedagogical processes of ensemble practice for heightening emergent encounters that disrupt the hierarchy of linearity, progress and the false notion of ‘open-endedness’ familiar in early childhood art-experiences. Collaboratories are positioned as lively studio processes that make visible multiplicitous child-material-world relations.

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10.1080/14733285.2021.2006144

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