Teaching What You Want to Learn

This new and expanded edition of Teaching What You Want to Learn includes 124 essential essays based on the foundational values of Evans' pedagogy: Embracing Change, Cultivating Community, Honoring Personal Uniqueness, Seeking Specificity, Facilitating Active Learning and Dancing as an Expression of the Human Spirit. It is an eloquent and practical guide for both emerging and established teachers of dance and movement. Evans has responded to current challenges faced by dance and movement educators. At a time when mobile devices, social media and Artificial Intelligence control how students engage in learning, and socio-political divisiveness increasingly adds stress to their lives, he offers methods and ideas to reflect on and refine teaching as a healing alternative to our troubling times. New essays include: "Supporting Trauma-Affected and Neurodivergent Learners," "Teaching is Also Learning," "Preparing Students for their Future, Not our Past" and "Evolving Your Personal Pedagogy,", Evans contextualizes his guidelines by sharing the crystallizing life and artistic events that sparked his embrace of the strategies and methods he has gleaned from his six-decade career as an educator, performer, choreographer and practitioner of the Laban/Bartenieff Movement System. This is a significant book for all new teachers of dance and movement as well as for established professionals who have not recently re-examined their own work.

Bill Evans has danced-tap, ballet and modern dance-- throughout his 86 years of life. He founded a professional company that toured throughout all 50 states in 1975, and founded a summer institute of dance, which is still ongoing, in 1977. Evans is emeritus professor at the University of New Mexico and SUNY Brockport. He is a recognized leader in dance and somatic movement education and founded the world's first somatic dance festival in 2013.

1. THE BACKSTORY 2. NOTES TO SELF 3. UNDERPINNINGS 5. WORDS MATTER 6. BODY WISDOM 7. TEACHING GUIDELNES AND STRATEGIES 8. BODY SPECIFICITYAND FUNCTUIONAL ANATOMY 9. ANATOMICAL IMAGERY ONVERTING THEORY INTO ACTION 11. 12. SUPPORTING DIVERSE LEARNERS, 13. TEACHING DANCE AND MOVEMENT THROUGH THE MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCEES. CONCLUSION