 My name is Sarah Knox and I'm a lecturer in the Dance Studies program at the University of Auckland. So I teach choreography and I teach dance technique. But what I'm really most passionate about is teaching the students how to work with each other. About 12 years before I came to the university I was a contemporary dancer. My first job was understudying for Douglas Fright. I was offered a job with Black Grace so I was one of their first female performers. And then I was with a footnote dance company for five years. So we've had five of our students working on a lift and it's been a really fascinating process I think for those five students to be involved in. My role has been to essentially do logistics with the partnering to figure out who needs to put their hand here and here to make this work. In Dance Studies it's not standing at the front of the room and telling them the information. It's pulling the information out of them. I'm super interested in how they communicate to one another, how they learn to do that really well, how they learn to share their ideas. We are drawing students into our undergraduate and postgraduate programs with the intention that they may be dancers but they may also be teachers, community practitioners, researchers, administrators, producers. If there's one message that I want the students to go away with is that they get to invent the next way. They get to choose how they want to work together. It doesn't have to be the same as what it was for us.