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Call for a Performance-based Provocation

The Dance Research Matters Network Mapping project is looking for a West Midlands based artist-researcher to offer a 10-20 minute performance-based provocation as part of the Dance Research Matters Network mid-point hybrid event on 25th July 2024.

The provocation is invited from an artist-researcher in response to the event theme: ‘Making dance research visible in the Creative Industries and beyond’. The sharing will open the day’s events and contribute to the development of ideas around the topic theme. The call is an opportunity to share your work and contribute to the DRM project.

Further details about the event theme and details of the DRM networks can be found below this call.

The deadline for submissions is Monday 5th April 2024.

Requirements

  • 10-20 minute long performance-based provocation
  • You must be a West Midlands based artist-researcher

Venue

  • The event will be hosted in the Patrick Suite at The Belgrade. It should be noted that there will not be a raised stage for the provocation and this should be considered when developing your proposal. The open call is for a provocation rather than a full performance.
  • This is a hybrid event. There will be approximately 30 people in-person attendance with an additional 30-50 people online.
  • The event will be documented.

Fees

AUE rates https://www.artistsunionengland.org.uk/rates-of-pay/ are as follows:

Sessional/Daily Rates

  • £194.93 p/day (£ 97.47 p/ 1⁄2 day) new graduate artist
  • £255.85 p/day £127.93 p/ 1⁄2 day) 3 yrs+ experience
  • £316.82 p/day £158.38 p/ 1⁄2 day) 5 yrs+ experience
  • £348.66 a day ( ½£174.25 per ½ day) lead artist/project manager

Travel

  • Accommodation for one night (if needed) and subsistence costs for the day can be reimbursed. These would be paid a day rate for the day itself.

To apply

Please email Vipavinee Artpradid ad5896@coventry.ac.uk by Monday 5th April with the following:

  • A summary of your provocation (approx. 250 words)
  • A biography with link to your website, if possible
  • Indication of how many days you need to prepare for the piece (it will be included in the sub-contract agreement with the university and legal services would write up the agreement)
  • Contact number and email address

For any queries related to the call please contact Vipavinee Artpradid ad5896@coventry.ac.uk

About the Dance Research Matters Networks

Running from October 2023 to March 2025, five AHRC Dance Research Matters Networks have been established and all have started their work on their projects. The Networks will be mapped and evaluated for impact and reach beyond the sector.

Details of the five networks can be found here

The Dance Research Matters Networks mid-point hybrid event

The Dance Research Matters Networks mid-point event creates a space and platform that shares the journeys of the networks thus far. It aims to facilitate knowledge exchange beyond the networks and dance sector/dance research sector and make the dance research ecosystem more legible in relation to the Creative Industries. Further, the event aims to disseminate learning about the impact of dance research in a way that is accessible to the public, catalysing the spontaneous unearthing of undiscovered network potentials and niches, and identify offshoot research areas arising from groups with a connection to or informed by the Dance Research Matters Networks.

Thematic details

In our December 2023 Dance Research Matters Networks discussion, the notion of making the dance research ecosystem more legible for humans and non-humans across disciplines, communities, and social institutions came up. Dance researchers may find comfort in the continued momentum of a movement of making the intangible more visible across multiple disciplines. This has lead to an increased common understanding of terms such as ‘intangible cultural heritage’.

Within the context of mapping the DRM Networks’ ecosystems, the concept of ‘lines’ could be applied. In ‘The Life of Lines’, Tim Ingold writes, ‘To live, every being must put out a line, and in life, these lines tangle with one another.’ With lines being the simplest visual element that ‘can be used to define shapes and figures, but also to indicate motion, emotion, and other elements… Lines [also] mark the outside of the image…This simple device is so effective that it is hard to remember that there is no [image], only a few black marks on a white page.’ (Khan Academy)

The reach of the lines and impressions offered often by a collaboration of dance artists, creative movers, and dance researchers often seem visually ephemeral – or illegible – to a spectator, but for participants and witnesses, it is easier to not have engaged with it at all than to try to claw out the embeddedness of the experience. But then again, why would you want to do that?

For choreographer and dance historian Dr Jody Weber, the intersection of maps, lines, and dance is in the sense of ‘understanding where you are and where you are going’ (2008). Journeying to the middle phase of the programme’s 18-months, the questions that arose – particularly for the work of an ethnographer and cartographer of movement and activity (to reference the DSA conference 2024 theme this year) – revolve around exploring ways to document and capture the lines and shapes of the flows of human and non-human life and movements of ideas, creativity, collaboration, and friendship in, around, and beyond around the biome of the Networks.

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