Books from Momentum Stage

Care-full Creativity in Theatre and Dance Education: Consent-Forward, Trauma-Informed, Psychologically Safe Movement Pedagogy is an interactive text that provides theory and tools for practice on creating a movement pedagogy of care.

This book brings together theories and tools of consent-forward, trauma-informed, and psychologically safe pedagogies and pedagogies of care, specifically for dance and movement teachers. It begins with power assessments for educators, then offers insights on the ripple effects of those powers in the classroom on students’ consent, agency, and psychological well-being. Each chapter includes reflective prompts for educators to examine their current classroom practices, as well as imagine new possibilities. Specifically in the second half of the book, chapters include multiple tools and/or templates for movement educators to use in incorporating new pedagogic practices into their classroom, including their syllabus, class design, and assessment. Reminders of the big ideas or highlight concepts conclude each chapter.

Care-full Creativity in Theatre and Dance Education is written for dance and movement educators as they develop consent-forward, trauma-informed, psychologically safe classrooms, rehearsals, and studio spaces.

Available from Routledge in hardback, paperback or ebook version.

This book is designed for teachers of dance, who wish to include improvisation in their technique classes, or who teach improvisation and choreography as a class. It includes recipes and ingredients for improvisational and/or compositional structures for dance. The recipes and ingredients found here can be used in a variety of classes in both studios and academic spaces, including Ballet, Jazz, Modern, Choreography and Composition, and even Movement for Actors.

These recipes are appropriate for middle school, high school, and university dancers.

Available from Amazon as a paperback or ebook! Royalties go directly to Momentum Stage!