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Ana Paula Höfling
Ana Paula Höfling is an American dancer, dance scholar, academic, and capoeirista. Education and training Höfling began dancing as a child and trained in classical ballet at the Royal Academy of Dance. She has a Bachelor of Arts in linguistics from the University of California, Berkeley, a master of fine arts in dance from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and a Master of Arts in dance and a PhD in Culture and Performance Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles. Höfling studied capoiera with Mestre Accordion, Mestre João Grande, Mestre Jogo de Dentro and the Grupo Semente do Jogo de Angola. Career Höfling served on the faculty at Wesleyan University, where she was an Andrew Mellon postdoctoral fellow, and at the University of Wyoming. She was an IIE Fulbright scholar at the Academia Superior de Artes de Bogotá in Colombia. In May 2015 she published some of her research in the book ''Performing Brazil: Essays on Culture, Identity, and the Performing Ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Academy Of Dance
The Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) is a UK-based examination board specialising in dance education and training, with an emphasis on classical ballet. The RAD was founded in London, England in 1920 as the Association of Teachers of Operatic Dancing, and was granted a Royal Charter in 1935. Queen Camilla is patron of the RAD, and Darcey Bussell was elected to serve as president in 2012, succeeding Antoinette Sibley who served for 21 years. The RAD was created with the objective to improve the standard of ballet teaching in the UK. In pursuit of improving instruction, a new teaching method and dance technique was devised for the Academy by a group of eminent European dancers. The RAD is one of the largest dance organisations in the world with over 13,000 members in 85 countries, including about 7,500 who hold Registered Teacher Status. There are currently about 1,000 students in full-time or part-time teacher training programmes with the RAD, and each year about 250,000 candidates e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |