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Dear Colleagues
 
African Dance Disability Network (ADDN) 2023 – Online meetings 

We want to introduce you to our new UKRI – AHRC funded research network project entitled Encountering disability through contemporary dance in Africa. And invite you as a specialist in this area as an academic, artist and/or educator to join us. The network is free and open to all and envisioned to be a space of community, sharing and support. 

Our aims are to:
* develop sustainable working relationships with persons working in this area across borders and dance sectors, 
*create fora to share knowledge, experience and best practice (via readings and through our own experiences as artists, teachers, researchers, companies and organizations vested in disability dance work, 
*identify issues and challenges faced by disabled people in various socio-cultural contexts and discuss ways to address them through dance,  
*collectively map challenges and innovations in integrated dance praxis, primarily in Africa, but in dialogue with global contexts,  
share opportunities such as calls for funding, applications for festivals, artistic residencies, etc., while also exploring new possibilities for collaborations,  
*develop a purpose-built website as a hub for available information that includes all of the above and outputs from the project that you would like to share in this space. 

This will strengthen and extend the informal network we first established in 2021 and 2022 prior to this project with researchers and practitioners.  

We plan to meet via Zoom every two months to focus on key questions arising from your and our work as practitioners, educators, researchers, etc. We will do a Meet & Greet in our first session, and discuss how we set agendas going forward, including the option for anyone in the network to lead a session on a specific topic, reading, new work, etc.   

Dates starting in February,   

Tuesday 21 February at:  SA: 5pm, Kenya: 6pm = Chicago: 9am, UK: 3pm 
Tuesday 18 April 
Tuesday 20 June 
Tuesday 15 August 
Tuesday 17 October 
Tuesday 5 December 

We are planning to organise an online colloquium in 2023 and integrated dance festival in 2024, in collaboration with JOMBA! (SA). 

We would love you to join us, and please do extend this invitation to anyone you feel might benefit from or wish to be included in these meetings. 

Teams link for Tuesday 21 February at:  SA: 5pm, Kenya: 6pm = Chicago: 9am, UK: 3pm : https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_OGU0NGFjZjYtNjIzNS00N2JhLWFjYzktNmRhOGEwMjc3Yzk2%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2209bacfbd-47ef-4465-9265-3546f2eaf6bc%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22fde994f7-cc45-4516-b00d-dd2eb471ed88%22%7d
With thanks 

Lliane and Yvette 

 
Dr Lliane Loots, Drama and Performance Studies Programme, School of the Arts, Director/Curator: JOMBA! Contemporary Dance Experience (Centre for Creative Arts), University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, Artistic Director: FLATFOOT DANCE COMPANY
 
Prof Yvette Hutchison,  Theatre & Performance Studies, Director of Research for SCAPVC, University of Warwick (FAB, CV4 7AL), UK


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