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Jan Erkert: directing energy and effort.

Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-OCT-08
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Jan Erkert: directing energy and effort.(teacher's wisdom)(Interview)

Article Excerpt
Jan Erkert is a dancemaker, teacher, and head of the Department of Dance at University of Illinois, Urbana/ Champaign. As artistic director of Jan Erkert & Dancers from 1979 to 2000, she began exploring the concepts of yield/push and reach/pull to differentiate qualities of effort and the focus of energy This exploration of directing energy became the basis of her teaching philosophy. While a professor of dance at Columbia College Chicago from 1990 to 2006. she received the 1999 Excellence in Teaching Award. Author of Harnessing the Wind: The Art of Teaching Modern Dance, Erkert is a popular teacher in the American College Dance Festival Association of both students and faculty. Her naturalistic movement style evokes the primitive, with a seemingly effortless...

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