Critical Dance Pedagogy Network events
12th and 13th January 2024, 10am-5pm: The Dance Educator’s Critical Dance Pedagogy Artist Lab at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance. Details below:
1st March 2024, 10am – 5pm: Intertextualities, identities and inequalities
Venue: Canterbury Christ Church University (CCCU) and online.
Register for this event here.
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Dancing Otherwise Network events
24th January 2024, 3.30pm: ‘Mapping the Dance Pluriverse’ [online event]
More details and booking here.
12th and 13th April 2024: ‘Choreographing the Pluriverse’ an event at Bath Spa University hosted by the Network. (Invitation only)
19th April 2024, 10.30am-7pm: ‘Dancing the Pluriverse – Dancing Otherwise’. The event comprises two workshops led by Anna de Clayes from Communitas dance company and Charlie Ashwell, followed by a round table discussion.
This will be a day of workshops, talks and exchanges on choreographing of the dance pluriverse, co-creating with a multiplicity of bodies and voices. This event is open to the public, dance artists, students and researchers.
Venue: South East Dance
More details and booking here.
Future Ecologies: Producing Dance Network (FE:PDN) events
24th November 2023: FE:PDN Network meeting + open forum event + Yorkshire Dance annual meeting of artists + scratch event (at Yorkshire Dance in Leeds). More details to follow. Details of the open forum can be found below:
7th February 2024, 2-3.30pm: the first meeting of The Early Career Group of the Future Ecologies: Producing Dance Network (FE:PDN) will take place via Zoom.
You are warmly invited to join the group via the Zoom link here.
The group’s aim, at this time of unprecedented challenges, is to contribute to the future-proofing of dance as a profession and a discipline. Your queries, insights and activities will be of great value in setting a new horizon. Envisioning a future for the Dance sector will be approached as a form of collective action. The group is for all practitioners who self-identify as Early Career: this might be in all or any aspect of their work. We also welcome practitioners who are invested in supporting Early Career dance professionals or initiatives. Considering the layered and complex nature of dance as a profession as well as practice research, we are using an expanded notion of producing which goes beyond job roles or descriptions.
The group will be applying an ecological approach to jointly investigate a range of questions.
The four main questions are:
- What is the nature of the present eco-system(s) for producing dance?
- What kind of mechanisms will make resilient the eco-system(s) of dance?
- How might producing dance be conceptualised as a form of academic research?
- How might practice research both inform and be enhanced by expanded notions of producing?
The group will hold three to four main meetings over an 18-month period. Sub-groups might be organised to focus on specific issues. The group will run a blog and produce an end-of-project report. We look forward to meeting you.
The Early Career Group lead is Dr ‘Funmi Adewole (De Montfort University, Leicester). She can be reached at oluwafunmilayo.adewole@dmu.ac.uk
18 April 2024, 2-3.30pm [online]: The second meeting of The Early Career Group hosted by the Future Ecologies: Producing Dance Network (FE:PDN).
You are warmly invited to join the group via the Zoom link here
The group’s aim, at this time of unprecedented challenges, is to contribute to the future-proofing of dance as a profession and a discipline. Your queries, insights and activities will be of great value in setting a new horizon. Envisioning a future for the Dance sector will be approached as a form of collective action. The group is for all practitioners who self-identify as Early Career: this might be in all or any aspect of their work. We also welcome practitioners who are invested in supporting Early Career dance professionals or initiatives. Considering the layered and complex nature of dance as a profession as well as practice research, we are using an expanded notion of producing which goes beyond job roles or descriptions.
The meeting will revolve around two break-out room discussions.
- The question for the first break out room is: What kind of mechanisms will make resilient the eco-system(s) of dance?
- The question for the second breakout room will come from the attendees.
The Early Career Group lead is Dr ‘Funmi Adewole (De Montfort University, Leicester). She can be reached at oluwafunmilayo.adewole@dmu.ac.uk.
South Asian Dance Equity (SADE): The Arts that British South Asian Dance Ignores Network events
19th January 2024, 2-4pm: SADE will have their Project Launch and session on “South Asian Dance and Decentring India/Hinducentrism”. The webinar is hosted by Akademi.
More details and booking here.