This document discusses using creative tools like Scratch Nights and hashtag chats to enhance dance curriculum. It defines creativity as both an individual disposition and systemic process relying on collaboration. Industry now values innovative problem-solving and communication skills. The document advocates using language in interactive environments to develop students' critical thinking, confidence, and risk-taking. It also discusses using social media like Twitter to shape identities and take responsibility for one's development through reflection. Overall it promotes these creative tools for dance analysis, community building, and cultivating independent thought.

1. Scratch Nights and
Hashtag Chats
Creative Tools to Enhance Choreography in the
Dance Curriculum
By Dr Lise Uytterhoeven and Louise Kelsey

2. Creativity – Belinda Allen (2010)
 Disposition: ‘a way of seeing, of being, and of acting in a
particular way in a given situation that can be identified as
“creative”’
 Systemic: ‘dependent on a range of factors that are beyond
the individual, such as the environment, colleagues, prior
work in the field, and the opportunities for action,
collaboration and recognition’
 21st century: no longer ‘an aptitude isolated in an individual’
but ‘a systemic process and product, relying on aptitude,
motivation, opportunity, collaboration and recognition’
 Industry expectations: ‘innovative and creative leadership,
problem-solving and communication skills.’
 Beyond employability? ‘The personal and social good’?

3. The
creative
graduate
Belinda Allen (2010)

4. Whiteboard
‘easier to take critical feedback’

5. The
creative
graduate
Belinda Allen (2010)

6. Research Foci
•Language in interactive/ social teaching environments
•Nurturing ‘critical confidence’ to develop discursive practice and
social media identities
•Students as independent thinkers and risk takers

7. Language
In interactive and social teaching environments
 Dance analysis
 “What did you notice?”
 Experience as a spectator
 Community of peers

8. Todevelopdiscursivepracticeandsocialmediaidentities
Critical Confidence

9. Twitter
‘98% of the online population use
social networks’
A tweet is a micro blog: ‘in the
moment’ activity
The risks
The buzz
Visibility

10. ‘The most effective blogs or tweets
are those that express personal
views… there is growing evidence that
if people simply broadcast work-
related content, with no personal
angle, their blogs or tweets will
become unconvincing, sterile, and this
unpopular’
(Warrick, 2013).

11. Moving Forwards
Chris Bell (2013): The separate but intersecting spheres of social media
activity, in which individuals shape their identities
Social Media

12. Food for Thought:
Independent Thinkers and Risk
Takers
 Reflection
 To have a voice
 Cultivated beliefs and values
 ‘develop interpersonal skills, improve confidence, and
sustain motivation … by monitoring and taking
responsibility for their own development’ (Hinett).

13. Christian Fuchs (2013)
Christian Fuchs (2014)

14. Key References
Allen, B. (2010) Creative research: where art meets work.
Bell, C. (2013) Social Media Spheres.
Fuchs, C. (2013) Social Media: a critical introduction.
Fuchs, C. (2014) Social Media and the Public Sphere.
Hinett, K. (date unknown) Improving Learning Through Reflection – part
one.
Miah, A. Rich, E. (2013) Can Twitter Open Up a New Space for Learning,
Teaching and Thinking?
Warrick, C. (2013) The Terror of Tweeting: social medium or academic
message.

15. Questions?
Dr Lise Uytterhoeven
@LiseUytterhoeve
Louise Kelsey
@ShadedVoice
London Studio Centre
@LdnStudioCentre
Middlesex University Dance
@MDXUniDance
#HashtagChats