Episode 7: 'Awakening Awareness'

How does dance and movement add to the existing practice of arts educators and choreographers and lead to more in-depth engagement with museum visitors? This is the question explored by dance artist Ingrid Berger Myhre and Gill Hart, Head of the Devonshire Educational Trust based at Chatsworth in Derbyshire and former Head of Education at the National Gallery London. This conversation, led by dramaturg Monica Gillette, is based on the European Union funded project Dancing Museums, a research project bringing together artists, dance organizations, museums, universities and research centers from seven countries. The project is conceived to explore ways in which working together might result in more powerful interpretations or experiences of art. Dancing in a museum brings visitors closer to performers – its proximity to the perceived stillness of art works interrupts and in effect – changes - codified codes of gallery behavior.