摘要：How does one teach a text about movement, about a dance or a performance? How can one do justice to both the achievement of the author and the work that her text discusses?It is easy to conceive of what should happen in a classroom following a model of communication, that is, in terms of the transmission of knowledge from an informed instructor to a student. The instructor tells the students what can be said and known about artist X or artwork Y; the student dutifully takes notes and, ideally, retains the information. This model of education certainly has its advantages: it allows for the scope of education to be measured in terms of the content transmitted; it also integrates much more easily with a reorganization of higher education according to a logic of exchange, in this case of knowledge and information. “You can download the slides on Blackboard [or Moodle, Canvas, etc.]”: the refrain of quick exchange in education. At the same time, knowledge and information in their exchangeable form are easily accessible on the internet, on Wikipedia for instance. What, then, is the singular project of higher education that stands out from a mass of knowledge traders?
