Dialoguing in the Dance Classroom Research

I have caught myself shushing students while teaching dance class. Hmmm?

I do not like to be shushed as a student, so why am I carrying on the tradition that was passed to me?

The shushing phenomenon happens when student(s) speak out of turn.

As an early adolescent in dance, my peers were discouraged from talking aloud almost all of the time and were asked instead to focus on their body’s language.

In my experience, when dancers were asked to speak, it was usually to add brief input about a choreographic process or explain movement to a previously absent student.

And don’t you know if they spoke for too long or too loudly they were shushed.