Dance Research Matters Networks Programme Midpoint Event: Making Dance Research Legible

Event details

With the theme of ‘Making dance research legible in the Creative Industries and beyond’, the event aims to facilitate knowledge exchange beyond the Networks and dance sector/dance research sector and make the dance research ecosystem more legible in relation to the Creative Industries. It also creates a space and platform that shares the journeys of the Networks thus far.

Further, the event aims to disseminate learning about the impact of dance research in a way that is accessible to the public, catalysing the spontaneous unearthing of undiscovered network potentials and niches, and identify offshoot research areas arising from groups with a connection to or informed by the Dance Research Matters Networks.

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Background information

In May 2021, communities and networks of dance researchers, educators, artists, and practitioners came together at the Dance Research Matters event which was hosted by the Centre for Dance Research, Coventry University, in partnership with the AHRC. The campaign has grown into a strategic programme to develop and support dance research networks, encourage collaboration, identify the research and investment needs for dance, and to provide targeted and impactful investment in this area. An advisory group of dance researchers from across the UK was created to support the programmes purpose, development and delivery.

Continuing the momentum created by the campaign that led to the AHRC launching the Dance Research Matters Networks programme, the DRM Networks programme is holding an event in celebration of the networks and connections created through dance research in the UK.

Speakers

Keynote speaker

• Professor Kate Elswit is a scholar–artist whose research on performing bodies combines dance history, performance theory, cultural studies, medical humanities, experimental practice and technology.

Panel speakers

• Assistant Professor Kate Marsh is a disabled/crip artist researcher at the Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE), Coventry University. Kate’s practice–research is focused on nurturing spaces for disabled and crip artists to develop and realise their ideas and practice.
• Professor Angela Pickard is a dancer, teacher, artist and academic. She is the first Professor of Dance Education in the UK and Director of the Sidney De Haan Research Centre for Arts and Health, at Canterbury Christ Church University. Angela is Principal Investigator for the AHRC Dance Educator’s Network: Critical Dance Pedagogy through Discourse and Practice.
• Professor Michela Vecchi specialises in Economics at Kingston University. Her main areas of research are skills, productivity and technological change and her work in these areas has been published in several international journals.

Session lead

• Professor Vicky Hunter is a Practitioner-Researcher in Site Dance and former head of the MA Choreography and Professional Practices programme at the University of Chichester. She joined Bath Spa in October 2023 and leads the AHRC ‘Dancing Otherwise: Exploring Pluriversal Practices’ network.

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