Dance Research Matters Networks March/April 2024 Newsletter

CROSS-NETWORK NEWS
Save the new date for Dance Research Matters mid-point event – 10th September 2024
The Dance Research Matters mid-point hybrid event will now be taking place on the 10th of September 2024. It will be in Coventry, but the venue is being finalised. More details in the May 2024 newsletter.

DRM Network ResDance Series: Episode 2 
On Tuesday 16th April ResDance launches the second episode of the Dance Research Matters Network series: Link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/resdance

In this episode, Vicky Hunter (Bath Spa University), Daniela Perazzo (Kingston University) and Michelle Elliot (Bath Spa University) from the Dancing Otherwise: Exploring Pluriversal Practices Network share insight into the focus of the network, which aims to explore how practices created by artists from diverse backgrounds and artistic perspectives, produce new understandings, positionalities and new modes of knowing.  They reflect upon their network experiences thus far and offer insights into their approaches to the network events, underpinned by practices of care and creating new opportunities for dialogue. Throughout the episode, they consider what being otherwise means to them, the potential of Pluriversal thinking in allowing us to think more universally and how such provocation may in turn, contribute to a wider dance research ecology. 


NETWORK UPDATES
Critical Dance Pedagogy Network
On the 1st March 2024 the Critical Dance Pedagogy Network had the first of four hybrid symposium events. The symposium, ‘Exploring Intersectionality, Intertextualities, Identities, and Inequalities’, engaged in discussions and workshops exploring social assumptions, structural power relations, and inequities within dance and dance education.

Dancing Otherwise Network: Exploring Pluriversal Practices
Over the 12th and 13th April the Dancing Otherwise Network hosted ‘Choreographing the Pluriverse’ at Bath Spa University for an invited group comprising 5 choreographers and 26 participants (dance researchers, PGR students and interested others) at Bath Spa university . The event involved sharing approaches to making, moving and relating to one another through choreographic approaches. Black Bark films created a short film capturing  some of the activities and the general tone, mood, feel of relating and 'Being Otherwise' central to the network's aims and ethos.


UPCOMING EVENTS
(events arranged chronologically)
Future Ecologies: Producing Dance Network (FE:PDN)
18 April 2024, 2pm to 3.30pm [online]: The FE:PDN will be hosting its second Early Career Group meeting. 
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. The group is for all practitioners who self-identify as Early Career: this might be in all or any aspect of their work. Practioners invested in supporting Early Career dance professionals or initiatives are also welcomed. 

The Early Career Group lead is Dr ‘Funmi Adewole (De Montfort University, Leicester). She can be reached at [log in to unmask]
The meeting will take place on zoom: https://url6.mailanyone.net/scanner?m=1ruTTZ-00046x-6I&d=4%7Cmail%2F90%2F1712737800%2F1ruTTZ-00046x-6I%7Cin6d%7C57e1b682%7C10618414%7C12122018%7C6616500DAC21C46C0C618386D9A271E2&o=%2Fphtc%3A%2Fltskadsz-u.-cj.oo9s%2F%2Fmu0236575694&s=Mwi3IhQzjPaXzmJN3K-2TwENQhU

Dancing Otherwise Network: Exploring Pluriversal Practices (https://dancingotherwise.com/)
On the 19th April the network will host the public event ‘Dancing the Pluriverse – Dancing Otherwise’. The event will comprise two workshops led by Anna de Clayes of Communitas dance and Charlie Ashwell, followed by a public round table discussion of the network themes delivered with the network’s partner, South East Dance, Brighton. The network will be joined by participant Lucy Clark, who is supported by a young dance maker's bursary - funded by the network and managed by another partner, the Sussex Dance Network.
Link to book: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dancing-the-pluriverse-dancing-otherwise-tickets-777583863267?aff=oddtdtcreator 

Future events:
13, 14, 15 June 2024: ‘Examining Pluriverses: Learning from Nature, Coalitions Kinship and Care’ at the Hawkwood Centre. (Core participants)
14 June 2024, 2-5pm. Workshop and Sharing: ‘Learning from Nature.’ Bath Spa University. Please email [log in to unmask] if you would like to attend.

South Asian Dance Equity (SADE): The Arts that British South Asian Dance Ignores Network
29 April 2024: ‘South Asian Dance and LGBTQi+ Identities’. Coordinated by Baithak UK, London
BaithakUK partners with South Asian Dance Equity (SADE) for the event South Asian Dance and LGBTQ+ identities. Webinar on 29 April. Register here: Webinar Registration - Zoom (https://ucr.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xt6pp2CwR1CGGjJOK9ltvQ#/registration )
In person on 30 April. The Tuesday 30 April in-person event in London is currently full. 

For details of the speakers and about the events, please go to http://danceresearchmatters.coventry.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/SADE-Baithak-flyer-compressed.pdf to download the flyer.

September 2024: ‘South Asian Dance and Caste’. Coordinated by Sampad Arts, Birmingham
December 2024: ‘South Asian Dance and Ableism’. Coordinated by Balbir Singh Dance Company, Leeds

Critical Dance Pedagogy Network
The Network has announced four hybrid symposium events which will be hosted across the UK and Northern Ireland.
11 July 2024, 10-5pm: ‘Equality, diversity and inclusion’ Centre for Arts and Health, Canterbury Christ Church University), co-led by at Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE), Coventry University and online.
20 September 2024, 10-5pm: ‘Pedagogy(ies) and practices’ at University of Edinburgh and online. 
January 2025 (date will be confirmed soon) 10-5pm Leadership and futures at Queen's University Belfast and online.


Links to Networks’ main pages
(in alphabetical order)
Critical Dance Pedagogy Network: 
https://www.criticaldancepedagogy.org/home 

Digital Black Dance Ecologies Network: 
https://www.cssd.ac.uk/Research/Research-Outputs-and-Projects/Current-Research-Projects/digital-black-dance-ecologies 

Dancing Otherwise Network
https://dancingotherwise.com/

https://www.instagram.com/dancingotherwise/ 

Future Ecologies Network (FE:PDN)
(website under construction)

South Asian Dance Equity (SADE)
https://www.akademi.co.uk/sade-project-launch/ 
https://www.sampad.org.uk/projects/south-asian-dance-equity-sade/
https://www.instagram.com/southasiandanceequity/

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