Karen Schupp, MFA, is the associate director of the Herberger Institute School of Music, Dance and Theatre at Arizona State University where she is also an associate professor of dance. Her research interests include dance competition culture, dance curriculum and pedagogy in tertiary education, and equity across the spectrum of dance education. Her books include Studying Dance (author), Dance Education and Responsible Citizenship (editor), and Ethical Dilemmas in Dance Education (co-editor with Doug Risner), which won both the Susan W. Stinson Book Award and NDEO’s Ruth Lovell Murray Book Award in 2021. Professor Schupp is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Dance Education. For more information, please visit http://www.karenschupp.org.
Key words: creative practice; dance pedagogy; creative leadership; interdisciplinary collaboration; dance competition culture I devise and investigate methodologies as a researcher, creative artist, and educator that situate the study of dance as integral to a comprehensive education and at the forefront of transdisciplinary research. Dance abstractly expresses ideas and inherently values the union of kinesthetic, intellectual, and emotional intelligences, thus serving diverse functions in societies. The integration of dance into liberal arts education provides opportunities to holistically educate students as creative, embodied, empathetic, and self-aware individuals. As a researcher, I examine innovative pedagogical practices and curricula with special attention paid to the connections and disconnections between postsecondary dance education and private-sector, dance competition studio communities. As a creative artist, I employ live and mediated performance to push the boundaries of dance in multiple contexts. As a dance educator, I believe that postsecondary dance education should allow for multiple career and learning outcomes within a collective educational experience; that dance should be studied in a way that highlights its comprehensive existence; that students should learn to critically think, reflect on experiences, and enhance other life skills through creatively engaging with dance; and that a complete dance education is one in which students develop abilities for successfully entering and changing the larger field of dance. These tenets guide all of my creative and scholarly research, teaching, and service.
Fall 2021 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
DCE 484 | Internship |
DCE 499 | Individualized Instruction |
DCE 554 | Teaching Praxis I |
DCE 580 | Practicum |
DCE 583 | Fieldwork |
DCE 584 | Internship |
DCE 590 | Reading and Conference |
DCE 593 | Applied Project |
DCE 680 | Practicum |
DCE 683 | Fieldwork |
DCE 693 | Applied Project |
Spring 2021 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
DCE 205 | How Dance Matters |
DCE 484 | Internship |
DCE 499 | Individualized Instruction |
DCE 580 | Practicum |
DCE 583 | Fieldwork |
DCE 680 | Practicum |
DCE 683 | Fieldwork |
DCE 693 | Applied Project |
Fall 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
DCE 499 | Individualized Instruction |
DCE 580 | Practicum |
DCE 583 | Fieldwork |
DCE 584 | Internship |
DCE 590 | Reading and Conference |
DCE 593 | Applied Project |
DCE 680 | Practicum |
DCE 683 | Fieldwork |
DCE 693 | Applied Project |
Spring 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
DCE 484 | Internship |
DCE 499 | Individualized Instruction |
DCE 580 | Practicum |
DCE 583 | Fieldwork |
DCE 680 | Practicum |
DCE 683 | Fieldwork |
DCE 693 | Applied Project |
Fall 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
DCE 170 | First-Year Seminar I |
DCE 484 | Internship |
DCE 494 | Special Topics |
DCE 499 | Individualized Instruction |
DCE 554 | Teaching Praxis I |
DCE 580 | Practicum |
DCE 583 | Fieldwork |
DCE 584 | Internship |
DCE 590 | Reading and Conference |
DCE 593 | Applied Project |
DCE 680 | Practicum |
DCE 683 | Fieldwork |
DCE 693 | Applied Project |
Spring 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
DCE 331 | 3rd-Yr Movement Practices II |
DCE 484 | Internship |
DCE 499 | Individualized Instruction |
DCE 571 | Graduate First-Yr Seminar II |
DCE 580 | Practicum |
DCE 583 | Fieldwork |
DCE 680 | Practicum |
DCE 683 | Fieldwork |
DCE 693 | Applied Project |
Fall 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
DCE 170 | First-Year Seminar I |
DCE 499 | Individualized Instruction |
DCE 554 | Teaching Praxis I |
DCE 580 | Practicum |
DCE 583 | Fieldwork |
DCE 584 | Internship |
DCE 590 | Reading and Conference |
DCE 593 | Applied Project |
DCE 680 | Practicum |
DCE 683 | Fieldwork |
DCE 693 | Applied Project |
Spring 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
DCE 234 | Postmodern Contemporary II |
DCE 331 | 3rd-Yr Movement Practices II |
DCE 484 | Internship |
DCE 499 | Individualized Instruction |
DCE 534 | Postmodern Contemporary |
DCE 580 | Practicum |
DCE 583 | Fieldwork |
DCE 634 | Postmodern Contemporary |
DCE 680 | Practicum |
DCE 683 | Fieldwork |
DCE 693 | Applied Project |
Fall 2017 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
DCE 134 | Postmodern Contemporary I |
DCE 499 | Individualized Instruction |
DCE 534 | Postmodern Contemporary |
DCE 554 | Teaching Praxis I |
DCE 580 | Practicum |
DCE 583 | Fieldwork |
DCE 584 | Internship |
DCE 590 | Reading and Conference |
DCE 593 | Applied Project |
DCE 634 | Postmodern Contemporary |
DCE 680 | Practicum |
DCE 683 | Fieldwork |
DCE 693 | Applied Project |