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- Interdisciplinary dancing: a contemporary approach to traditional classical ballet teaching for the 8th year dance students at ADCSPublication . Rijmer, Sylvia Kazumi; Amorim, VeraThis internship report bases its investigation on empirical data collected according to the rules and regulations of the Unidade Curricular Estágio I and II, within the framework of the Masters in Dance Teaching, its 5th Edition thereof, administered by the Escola Superior de Dança (ESD) and the Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa (IPL), in Portugal. The internship was implemented at the Academia de Dança Contemporânea de Setúbal (ADCS), Portugal, with the 8th year students of the final year within the Portuguese secondary level academic education in dance at ADCS. The objective of our pedagogic intervention pertained to the notion of interdisciplinary dancing, using contemporary dance words as practical tools within a classical ballet technique (CBT) dance class to encourage interdisciplinary thinking and doing in the students performativity of classical ballet. Using an Action based research methodology to our collection of investigative data, we were able to progressively adapt and transform our teaching strategies and pedagogical methodologies to suit the needs of our research work, as well as the reality of the preprofessional dance finalists within a vocational dance structure. Our data collection instruments (video recordings, log book diaries, as well as questionnaries and interviews) gave us both academic and human insights into the reception of our teaching practice and methodology. The final analysis and reflective thoughts based upon this practical teaching intervention at ADCS demonstrated that the students of the 8th year at ADCS verbally and physically presented a positive transformation of interdisciplinary thinking and doing within their performativity of the classical ballet technique. We conclude that our interdisciplinary methodology is a relevant teaching strategy reflecting our contemporary dance times, influenced by technical and artistic crosspollinations, and the process of adaptation and transformations within the nature of dance evolution itself. We encourage more interdisciplinary thinking and doing within today’s technical classical ballet classes, in light of today’s eclectic dancing and collaborative choreographic processes of our times.