Edu-choreographing: Approaching Dance Teaching as Choreography

“Edu-choreographing” is a play with the post-qualitative concept <italic>edu-crafting</italic> offered by Carol A. Taylor in 2018. Post-qualitative research challenges and expands qualitative research, especially in destabilizing the subject, making it a relational, becoming, embodied and affective subject that is changing <italic>with</italic> the research phenomena and <italic>with</italic> the world. New concepts are created within post-qualitative research to seek to express this relational ontology, destabilization, and entanglement. Edu-crafting - a combination of “education” and “crafting” - is one such concept which has caught our interest. To craft is to design, to create, to let something take shape. We understand Taylor’s edu-crafting as a way of a) focusing on education as something that can be crafted, and b) intense pedagogical entanglements where the teacher is actively crafting the pedagogies, but also, at the same time, the teacher is being crafted right back from the ongoing flow of the pedagogical event. The students, as well as other aspects like spaces, time, discourses, and materials like arts materials, entangle with and have agency on the ongoing crafting of the teaching pedagogies.