“…The idea of teacher direction in dance technique has been examined by a number of dance scholars who have investigated traditional pedagogical paradigms associated with dance technique (Lord 1981, Hanstein 1990, Stinson 1993, Smith 1998, Stevens 2006). Furthermore, to reconceptualise the power relationship between dance technique teacher and students, scholars have explored the use of alternative pedagogical models by drawing on ideas grounded in critical pedagogy, constructivist and somatic learning perspectives (Fortin 1998, Green 1999, Enghauser 2007, Råman 2009, Dyer 2009, Stanton 2011, Aceto 2012, Dryburgh and Jackson 2016.…”