Dance at De Montfort University (Leicester) and FABRIC (Dance4 and DanceXchange together) are delighted to announce a fully funded AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award opportunity:

'Reflecting Organisational Transformation through New Curatorial Practice'

This project provides a unique opportunity to interrogate FABRIC’s archives, which contain historically significant performance and practice-related materials. The candidate will use archival and curatorial research practices to explore strategies for driving transformation in dance across the region and the UK. 

Research questions include:

What can analysis of FABRIC’S archive and organisational transformation reveal about trends in curation, accessibility and engagement? 
How might archives support co-creativity between artists, communities and FABRIC? 
What new curatorial practices can be generated to increase accessibility and engagement? 
What impact can a new framework for curatorial practice that integrates digital culture have on dance and the wider performing arts sector?

The candidate will use a mixed methods research design, employing qualitative research and practice-based methods which may include archival analysis, using digital technologies to explore rich media content; interviews with key stakeholders and practice-based curation to test research frameworks.

The supervisory team is Sally Doughty (Associate Professor/Reader, Dance, DMU), Professor Tracy Harwood (Professor of Digital Culture, DMU), and Hannah Sharpe (Programme Director, FABRIC).

The successful candidate will demonstrate skills and expertise in a performing arts discipline, or be empathetic to the performing arts. Some knowledge of programming and/or curating in the arts will be an advantage, and digital skills will be beneficial.

Timeline:

All candidates must secure a place at DMU by 30^th November 2022

Apply via the M4C portal by 11January 2023

For detail about the project CLICK HERE

To apply CLICK HERE

To attend the application writing workshop on in Leicester on 12 November CLICK HERE

For any project specific enquiries, please contact Sally Doughty on [log in to unmask]

Please circulate to all interested parties and to your networks.

Thank you.

Sally Doughty
Associate Professor Dance

Reader in Dance and Improvisation

Director of Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Dance (CIRID)

Associate Head of School of Humanities and Performing Arts (Performance subjects)

Clephan 2.11
De Montfort University
The Gateway
Leicester LE1 9BH

Tel: 0116 257 7834
Email: [log in to unmask]

www.dmu.ac.uk/sallydoughty

BA (Hons) Dance: dmu.ac.uk/dance

MA Choreography: dmu.ac.uk/choreography

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Latest performance: Doughty, S., Kendall, L. and Krische, R. (2020) Please Do Touch at Leicester Gallery, DMU, Friday 28 February 2020.

Latest publications:

-Doughty, S., Kendall, L., and Krische, R. (2020) The Holding Space: Body of (as) Knowledge. In: Whatley, S., Racz, I., Paramana, K., Crawley, M.L. (Eds.) ‘Art and Dance in Dialogue - Body, Space, Object'. Palgrave Macmillan, pp 91-103.

-Doughty, S. (2020) Hourglass: Mark-making In and As Performance. In: Journeaux, J., Gorrill, H., Reed, S. (Eds.) Body, Space, and Place in Collective and Collaborative Drawing: Drawing Conversations II. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars, pp. 67 - 84.

-Doughty, S. and Shenton, P. (2020) This is...where we are now. In: David, A., Huxley, M. and Whatley, S. (Eds.). Dance Fields: Staking a Claim for Dance Studies in the 21st Century. Binsted: Dance Books, pp. 204-219.