Apologies for cross-posting...
SPACE FOR DANCE
London Women and Planning Forum Seminar
Wednesday 9th December 2009
1.30 - 6.00
City Centre Seminar Room, Department of Geography
Queen Mary, University of London
This half-day seminar focuses on the importance of dance for women of all ages, and the
planning and urban design issues around providing and using different spaces for dance.
Drawing on discussions about the role of dance in improving health and wellbeing and
ways of encouraging participation, the seminar will consider some of the challenges and
opportunities presented by different spaces, and will consider how planners, urban
designers and architects can meet the need for welcoming, accessible and innovative
spaces for dance.
1:30 Registration – Tea/coffee
1:45 Welcome – Alison Blunt – QMUL Geography and LWPF Steering Group
2:00 Sue Tibballs – CEO, Women’s Sport and Fitness Foundation
The WSFF aims to “increase the health, fitness and well-being of women and girls by
making physical activity an integral part of their lives”, and to help create “a society
which encourages, enables and celebrates active and healthy women and girls”. Sue will
discuss: “Creating a Nation of Active Women: an overview of the women's market for
sport and fitness".
2:30 Carolyn Deby – Lecturer – LABAN; artist – sirenscrossing
Carolyn will discuss making urban, site-based dance, and choreography as a concept
embracing patterns and rhythms – not only of performing bodies – but those existing
within the surrounding space. With examples from her own choreographic practice and
her work at Laban, she will touch on creative opportunities, political/logistical challenges,
and concepts such as private/public space, access, urban regeneration...
3:00 Break
3:15 Lisa Craddock - Programme Manager – Professional Development, Foundation for
Community Dance
Lisa will explore the emergence of women who are taking a lead in supporting community
cohesion through dance in different settings and specifically in response to new builds,
looking at the potential for planners, designers and dancers to work together to produce
efficient and imaginative use of spaces for people to make their own.
3:45 Sue Cooper and Lorraine Drolet – Essentially Dance
Sue and Lorraine will discuss their work with Essentially Dance, a new initiative to
train teachers to teach ballroom and Latin American dance within schools’ core physical
education provision. They will address the role of schools as catalysts to encourage
wider community participation in dance performances, and the challenges of finding
spaces to meet the needs of their programme.
4:15 Discussion
5:15 Drinks reception
The seminar fee is £25 and £10 for concessions. Payable on the day in
cash or cheque. Please email Evelyn Owen at [log in to unmask] to reserve
a place, and see www.lwpf.org.uk for more information.
|