Materiality and movement play crucial roles in both the educational practice of physical education (PE), and in physical education teacher education (PETE). This conference presentation presents how materialities, human as well as non-human, play part in movement exploration in creative dance in PETE.
The methodological point of departure is a pedagogical unit in creative dance enacted as part of an optional dance course in a Swedish PETE program where movement exploration was studied. In the unit, students and a teacher collaboratively explored movement and movement assignments, including the use of materialities.
In order to understand how materialities ‘co-act’ in movement exploration during class, this article provides a Deleuzian and a posthumanist approach. The concept dancemblage is introduced both as a way to analyse materiality and as something to work with in pedagogical practice.