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Coventry CV1 5FB
United Kingdom
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C-DaRE Project Page on the Roma women and families.
The project investigates the challenges inherent in remaining and preserving in the fields of dance, music theatre and performance that otherwise operate under the primacy of presence.
The objective is to inform policy-making in both South Africa and the UK in relation to IP and diversity strategies for the micro creative industries and international trade. It is also to create strong and lasting conversations among academic researchers, creative industry participants, policy-makers and practitioners across South Africa and the UK; and to foster new academic links between South Africa and the UK through which new research proposals can emerge. This project, and subsequent ones arising out of network activities will also help to strengthen understanding of, and adoption of good practice around IP and diversity by arts and cultural practitioners, thus ensuring greater sustainability for this sector.
This project examined an innovative way of empowering persons with conflict-related disabilities in Sri Lanka through a combination of dance and law that was pioneered and piloted by VisAbility, a Sri Lankan/ German association, in mid-2015.
The overall purpose of the research is to model a usable practice-based template for sensing the city, drawing on the city of Coventry (UK) as a case-study in the first instance. The template will offer a range of methodologies towards, first, engaging constructively and productively with urban sites using the sensate presence of the human body as the primary means of gathering data and, second, processing and presenting that data in innovative ways within a critical framework that assesses the city's habitability and sustainability.
Developing a UK case study on somatic practices in performance, whilst drawing out information on ‘context’ as an aspect of somatic practices in performance.
The Capturing Stillness project places a microscope on the dance practice Skinner Releasing Technique (SRT), in combination with motion capture and game engine technologies.
RICHES is a research project about the change that digital technologies are bringing to our society, culture and heritage.
This AHRC-funded project provided public access, via one web platform, to several distinct dance collections from the NRCD.
This project revisits and develops sections from ‘Lunar Parables', choreographed by Sara and Jerry Pearson.
This project investigates the various ways in which artists document reflections and experiences of working within an artist venue.
Contemporary dance is anecdotally described as a white field of practice. Although there is a growing body of arts research that examines whiteness as racial privilege, there is little that investigates the phenomenon of whiteness in contemporary dance.
This project aims to support independent developers and artists in designing movement and body based interaction for Virtual Reality and immersive media, by building tools that allow designing by moving via Interactive Machine Learning.
This project will run ‘Evaluative Performance’ investigations in different research settings: Contemporary art, engineering and computer science, equality and diversity initiatives and anti-social behavioural interventions at live events.
The project explores the idea of deeply embodied trust in autonomous systems through a process of bringing expert moving bodies into harmony with robots.
A capacity building programme for researchers, reviewers and the institutional research management of Offices of Research, Innovation, & Commercialization (ORICs) in Pakistan.
The BBC, in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), are celebrating their centenary year with a series of new public engagement research projects, recently announced. This programme of activities seeks to connect the public with the BBC’s past, present and future. Coventry University are pleased to have been awarded funding to explore the BBC’s work in televising dance, looking at the impact of Strictly Come Dancing on public audiences and its recent focus on inclusion through dance.
Roma Women transforming the educational systems around Europe through their social and political mobilizations (RTransform) addresses a main challenge which is social inclusion with the potentiality of promoting education among Roma women and girls.
The Romani Cultural and Arts Company was the lead for the ‘Gypsy Maker 5’ programme a development of the highly successful ‘Gypsy Maker’ project.
Dance and Lockdown is a small-scale qualitative study designed to generate richly detailed experiential data from two key layers of the dance industry’s ecology: artists and organisations.
Priory Street
Coventry CV1 5FB
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)24 7765 7688
