Dance Research Matters Networks events
Critical Dance Pedagogy Network events
10 January 2025: ‘Leadership and Futures’ at Queen’s University Belfast and online.
Details to follow.
Dancing Otherwise Network events
15 November 2024, 2.30-4pm: ‘Dancing Otherwise at the Being Human Festival’, Bath Science and Literary Institute, Queens Square, Bath. Free event. Details and booking link coming soon.
12 February 2025, 12-7.30pm: ‘Moving Otherwise: Making Change’ at Kingston University. Free and open to the public. Details and booking link coming soon.
Digital Black Dance Ecologies Network
The Digital Black Dance Ecologies Network has produced an Early Career Mentorship Programme comprised of four live sessions providing specialist guidance on navigating academic systems and institutions.
10 December 2024, 5.30-7pm: ‘Developing a Competitive Research Profile in the UK with Professor Kate Elswit’. Online.
Free to attend. Book: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/developing-a-competitive-research-profile-in-the-uk-tickets-1072999042019?aff=oddtdtcreator
This is the second session in the Early Career Mentorship Programme. This session aims to support Black career academics to build a strong and competitive research profile within the UK academia. Professor Elswit will explore strategies for securing research funding, highlight the differences between grant writing and academic writing, and offer guidance on forming productive collaborations with colleagues and arts and cultural organisations. Additionally, participants will gain valuable tips on developing and leading a successful research team.
There will be an opportunity to ask questions to Professor Elswit during the workshop.
Kate Elswit is Professor of Performance and Technology and Head of Digital Research at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. She is also Co-Director of the Centre for Performance, Technology, and Equity (PTEQ), which was founded in 2024 with a £5.6 million grant from Research England. For the past decade, she has been collaborating with Harmony Bench to bring dance and experimental digital practice into conversation, including through the AHRC-funded projects Visceral Histories, Visual Arguments: Dance-Based Approaches to Data (2022-25) and Dunham’s Data: Katherine Dunham and Digital Methods for Dance Historical Inquiry (2018-22), which won the ATHE-ASTR Award for Excellence in Digital Theatre and Performance Scholarship. As Moving Data, their dance data commission from the Whitney Museum of American Art appears in the Edges of Ailey exhibition (through February 2025).
Future Ecologies: Producing Dance Network (FE:PDN) events
More events to come.
South Asian Dance Equity (SADE): The Arts that British South Asian Dance Ignores Network events
26 November 2024, 3-5pm [online]: ‘South Asian Dance and Ableism’. Coordinated by Balbir Singh Dance Company, Leeds
Register here to attend: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc7L71kLEjxsltBn5DVCFTgm3CCqHVLAi8o9cUDh23RARtzBg/viewform
SADE will be hosting a webinar on ‘South Asian Dance and Ableism’. Invited speakers include Ranjana Dave, Dr Shani Dhanda, Rey Dosaj, Maulikraj Shrimali and Dr Akhila Vimal C.
Ranjana Dave (she/her) is an independent artist and writer.
Her practice, emerging from her movement training, and research and writing, unfolds at the intersection of text and movement. She likes to explore how people build relationships with other people, ideas, objects and ecologies – what makes us social beings. More at www.ranjanadave.com.
Dr Shani Dhanda sparks transformative change as a consultant, collaborating with businesses and brands to
authentically embrace inclusion and accessibility. She is recognised as the UK’s most influential disabled person and the BBC’s 100 Women Laureate of 2020. Her expertise in disability inclusion has had a profound global impact, collectively reaching over 1.5 million employees worldwide.
Rey Dosaj has been in the arts for over 20 years and has worked for a wide range of organisations from large-scale venues to local mid-scale and small theatres. She was previously Head of Client Services at Inc Arts and prior to that worked as an Agent for Change with the Ramps on The Moon consortium which enabled theatres to break down barriers for people to access the arts safely.
Maulikraj Shrimali is a Dalit artist-activist and PhD student in Performance Studies at Northwestern University. He is founder of the anti-caste ‘Whistle Blower Theater Group’. His research explores caste and race in/as performance, anti caste performance, social change, transformation, diaspora theater, and protest arts.
Dr Akhila Vimal C. is an independent scholar, dancer, and performance theorist whose research lies at the intersection
of performance studies, ritual studies, ethnochoreology, dance pedagogy, and disability aesthetics. Her work critically examines India’s intercultural performance traditions, exploring their histories, training methodologies, contemporary practices, textual narratives, and manuals.
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