Abstract
Dance students in university tend to have minimum understanding and skills in processing music to address the creativity needs in new dance works. Therefore, effective and critical learning strategies are needed so they are able to process music to create dance works. This research aims at enhancing dance students’ understanding and skills to process music in creating new dance works in the future. It was conducted using an action research design involving 30 dance students at one of the universities in Indonesia. The results showed that, in terms of skills and understanding of music, students were not used to processing music for their dance works, since they were mostly assisted by music stylists. Through internal and external music exploration learning, the musical dance students’ skills could be improved. Therefore, the findings of this research are recommended to be used as an alternative learning in enhancing dance students’ musical ability.
 Keywords: Dance Music, Movement Exploration, External Music, Internal Music, Dance Creativity.
Highlights
Dance students are required to master the techniques and forms of movement in dance being studied, but they have to master other dance presentation elements such as elements of music in dance (Hadiansyah et al, 2021)
This means that dance students must have adequate understanding and skills on how to cultivate and develop the musical elements needed in the new dance works to be created
Research was carried out with a quantitative approach (Hogenes et al, 2016). This was in line with the research objectives, which were to find solutions to dance students’ learning problems related to their understanding and skills in processing dance music for the process of creating new dance works
Summary
Dance students are required to master the techniques and forms of movement in dance being studied, but they have to master other dance presentation elements such as elements of music in dance (Hadiansyah et al, 2021). Music in dance is one element of dance performances that provides strengthening access to rhythm (Takeda et al, 2004) to make the dance presentation become more dynamic and lively. The presence of music in dance will provide a strengthening of the character and the atmosphere of the dramatic element in the dance that is performed. Understanding and skills are needed in processing music to be used in new dance works to be created. This means that dance students must have adequate understanding and skills on how to cultivate and develop the musical elements needed in the new dance works to be created If they do not master these aspects of skills, they will not be able to create musical elements that have musical qualities, which are in accordance with the characters and themes of the dances created
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