The Pandemic and social distancing policy in many countries globally has caused sudden disruption to all schools and formal education. This is also a particularly challenging time for the field of dance education where kinesthetic sense and social connection experience is essential to this form of learning. This webinar forum will share how the faculty of dance at The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts is responding to meet the needs of students; to conduct the teaching with multiple online tools and protocols; and to offer new approaches to technique, choreography, performance and collaboration. The panel will also discuss the importance of recognizing resilience, which defines as pushing through circumstances with mindfulness. Furthermore, keeping our humanity amid the realities of confinement and constriction enable us to better ourselves, extend empathy and work through emotional trauma. This also allows individual to express, create and simultaneously take care of their physical wellness as a way to build a community of care and support of our well-being on a collective level.
