Virtual+Classrooms

Virtual Classrooms

Society uses webcams and voice recorders to speak to people on the other side of the world and use programs such as Dim Dim and Elluminate to teach interactively to remote areas. Why not hold a virtual classroom for dance? This would allow students in remote areas that do not have a big enough class to run dance or facilitator can now have the option to learn from dance educators around the world. It would also be a cost-efficient way to learn from professionals around the world. This also enables students to audition from remote areas using video applications. In the tertiary dance institutions and large performance companies such as Disney, Cirque Du Soleil, Universal Studios and the Australian Ballet have allowed prospective dancers to send a VHS or DVD in the mail as a mode of auditioning. Rather than send in via the traditional ‘snail mail’ there is now the technology that these modes of auditioning can be emailed in or post onto personal blogs or websites.