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Dear Colleagues,
Some places are still available for delegates to attend the following
free one-day events taking place later this month.
You can book by e-mailing Barbara Hargreaves at: [log in to unmask]
or telephoning 01524 592614.
Further details, including travel information and overnight
accommodation for these events, is available on the following web
page - http://www.lancs.ac.uk/palatine/workshops03-04/.
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1) Architecting the Body Through Live Performance and Film
The Dance Studio, Newton St Loe
Bath Spa University
Tuesday 15th June
2) Taming the Beast: Learning & Teaching in Music Technology Campus Centre
De Montfort University Monday 21st June
3) Creative Practical Work in the Age of Mass Education
Campus Centre
De Montfort University
Tuesday 22nd June
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Full Details
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1) Architecting the Body Through Live Performance and Film
The Dance Studio, Newton St Loe
Bath Spa University
Tuesday 15th June
This workshop, led by Chrissie Harrington, is based on the research
and outcomes of a Palatine Development Award Project that aims to
explore the relationship between live and filmed movement and between
the live abstract stage space and the recorded specific place in and
through the interaction of dance and film. A further intention of the
research is to facilitate a model for teaching and learning that
could be used in other higher education institutions.
The programme for the workshop will include practical and theoretical
material that will be disseminated by Chrissie and some of her
students and will form the basis for discussion. Feedback from the
workshop participants will be key in assessing the potential
application of the research to teaching and learning in HE.
Themes will include:
· The dialogues between the body as it articulates and defines
the space, and the space as it architects and articulates the body.
· Issues related to technology and the camera as choreographic
tools in the construction and manipulation of movement material and
in the reinvention and collaboration of spaces and places.
The opportunity to watch and discuss performance demonstrations and
student work that has been made in response to the research will
feature throughout the day.
Programme
10:00 Refreshments/Registration
10:30 - 12:45 First Session
12:45 - 13:45 Lunch
13:45 - 15:00 Second Session
15:00 - 15:30 Tea/Coffee
15:30-16:30 Discussion and Plenary
16:30 Close
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2) Taming the Beast: Learning & Teaching in Music Technology
Campus Centre
De Montfort University
Monday 21st June
Music Technology has emerged as a distinct discipline at all levels
in education, with a huge impact on the HE sector. By its very
nature, Music Technology is a magnet for the widest spectrum of
music-making, from the most radical experimental musical iconoclasm,
to the entertainment industry and the processes of disseminating
music as a consumer product.
This one-day conference aims to throw some light on the way educators
are constructing coherent paths through this complex and exciting
shift in context for music education.
PROGRAMME
10:00 Refreshments/Registration
10:45-11:30 Andrew Bates and Ben Burrows (Leeds College of Music)
'Music Production at LCM: a case study in course development and
review'
11:30-12:15 Leigh Landy (De Montfort University) 'Teaching
Collaborative Creativity within a music technology context'
12:15-13:00 Michael Clarke (University of Huddersfield) 'Sybil:
Synthesis by Interactive Learning'
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-14:45 Deigo Garro (Keele University) 'Teaching Creative
Video to Music Technology students: our experience'
14:45-15:30 Nick Sargent (Bath Spa University College)
'Identification, capture and development of compositional frameworks
for undergraduate music technology'
15:30-16:15 Andy Keep (Bath Spa University College) 'All music
technology is equal,except some is more equal than others'
16:15 - 16:45 Discussion
16:45 Close
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3) Creative Practical Work in the Age of Mass Education
Campus Centre
De Montfort University
Tuesday 22nd June
Are you faced with teaching larger and larger groups? Would you like
to discuss approaches to learning and teaching for such groups? Would
you welcome support from like-minded colleagues? If the answer to any
of these questions is yes, then come along, share your experience and
talk to others about it.
This is a supportive seminar aimed at sharing and discussing current
practices. We are particularly keen to have participants broach new
and novel approaches. This is not a substitute for the provision of
more and better facilities for study; it is a realistic approach to
the actual situation that faces most of us who still see practical
exploration as the core of our disciplines.
The day will be facilitated by Helen Bailey, Rob Brannen, Michael
Huxley and Jayne Stevens from DMU. The four facilitators have
experience across the range of the courses that will be explored.
It is well known that there are more and more students entering
higher education to study dance, drama, performing arts, performance
and theatre. The level of interest is very encouraging. At the same
time, as student numbers increase year by year there are challenges
to be met as well, and a recent article in the THES (16th April)
focused on some of the problems being faced by drama departments in
relation to teaching spaces. Conversations with colleagues up and
down the country indicate that there is considerable interest in
addressing the question of how we engage large groups of students in
meaningful creative practical activities.
The seminar is designed to allow participants to discuss their
situation and ways they have found to approach learning and teaching
for large groups of students. Some of the things that we will
consider are:
- how do we provide valid performance opportunities for large groups
of students?
- what size of practical group do you think is large?
- is technical performance coaching possible or desirable in a
University situation?
- how can we support students’ practical independent learning when
working with large groups?
- are some performance forms more amenable to constructive large
group work than others?
FACILITATORS
Helen Bailey, Senior Lecturer in Dance, Director Ersatz Dance Company. Rob
Brannen, Principal Lecturer in Theatre, National Teaching Fellow,
DMU Teacher Fellow, Course Leader BA Performing Arts
Michael Huxley, a Co-Director of PALATINE
Jayne Stevens, Principal Lecturer in Dance, National Teaching Fellow,
DMU Teacher Fellow, Subject Leader Dance
PROGRAMME
10.30 Arrival at the Conference Room, Campus Centre (signed on the day)
Coffee and welcome
11.00 Morning Session
What are the advantages and disadvantages of large group
practical teaching?
Introduction
Small Group Discussions
Large Group Feedback / Discussion
1.00 Lunch
2.00 Afternoon Session
Suggestions for the development of learning and teaching
practice for large groups of students
[Flexible format, groups finalised on the day]
3.30 Tea
4.00 Departure
VENUE
The Conference Room, CC 2.01/2.02, 2nd Floor, The Campus Centre, De
Montfort University, The Gateway, Leicester LE1 9BH.
De Montfort Contact for June 21st and 22nd
Michael Huxley 0116 250 6269 (office hours), [log in to unmask]
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Great Hall Lancaster University Lancaster LA1 4YW United Kingdom
Email: [log in to unmask]
WWW: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/Palatine
The Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Performing Arts.
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