DT Teacher Talks: Consent Practices in Performing Arts Education

In this live hour-long Zoom discussion, Dance Teacher’s editorial director, Reanne Rodrigues, joins Elaine DiFalco Daugherty, theater professor at Central Michigan University, and Heather Trommer-Beardslee, dance professor at CMU, to explore consent as a principle to guide practices and policies in university-level performing-arts education along with the structural power dynamics present in educational spaces and tools for mitigating them. The conversation will also highlight real-world challenges that dance teachers face as they work to reshape their teaching habits and processes to include consent practices. Attendees will also be able to ask questions in real time.