Arts Education

» Jo Murphy - How does a dancer learn a ballet?

I'll write an article about how ballet dancers learn how to dance.
Thanks for the question!

We learn to do what we see. So kids who are naturally graceful have a head start and then they copy.
Mirror neurons have a lot to do with it.

Not only do we copy people but animals and the rhythm of nature. Indigenous People's dance can be an example of this, or think of Swan Lake!
Flight of the Bumble Bee.
Even Nutcracker is about the way of the walk.

Once awareness and kinetics has become a part of the repetoire of the nueral pathway people can imagine all sorts of combinations of the movements stored.
So it becomes a language in the way Chompsky would describe.
Once language has been acquired - symbolism allows composition of a more abstract nature.

The short answer is
"We begin with baby steps."

Great idea for an article though!
Thank you for posting,
Jo