Interview with Janet Panetta at Artistic Research Week 2022

Interview with Janeet Panetta during the Artistic Research Week 2022 at Oslo National Academy of the Arts - under the umbrella of the "teaching contemporary dance - a workbook" project. Janet Panetta is a legend in teaching ballet for contemporary dancers. She has developed strategies for how to convey this classical technique to dancers from various backgrounds, and she always manages to get across the importance of the basic elements in ballet as universal tools - The principles of alignment taught in the exercises and combinations have been developed to build a firm technical foundation and to allow freedom of movement. Rhythm, line and weight all become learning tools that can be transferred to other styles of dance. This interview is the first of many and this work creates the base for the research project that aspires to document and create written traces of the different strategies and methods for teaching contemporary dance today, and in this case, how to teach a traditional technique to contemporary dancers.