C-DaRE Newsletter

Summer 2020

News, events and opportunities!

Welcome to the latest edition of the C-DaRE Newsletter. We have a lot of things to share with you! We have continued to be busy during lockdown. Although the restrictions on travel and meeting with people outside of your own household has had a massive impact of the work C-DaRE does we have also embraced the online realm and continue to work on our many projects and organise our C-DaRE Invites... events series, adapting to this new world in which we find ourselves. Below, you'll find on overview of what has been happening in the last few months.

We would like to draw your attention to a free Q&A webinar on Dance and Law on 19th June 11am, with legal expert Professor Charlotte Waelde and dance experts Professor Sarah Whatley and Dr Kate Marsh of C-DaRE. Details on how to join are in the events section below.

For any queries contact cdare.fah@coventry.ac.uk

News

C-DaRE Conversations... on Touch

C-DaRE colleagues have begun a series of recorded conversations which have been shared on our YouTube channel. The first two of these focused on touch. Being in lockdown means for many people that their experience of touch has changed dramatically. What does that mean for us as dancers and all of us? View the first conversation below.

If you would like to share your responses or questions please do so in the video comments or email Lily Hayward-Smith.

Generations exhibition online preview - Depicting Coventry's Gypsy Roma Traveller Community

Recently featured in the Coventry Telegraph!

Curated by Rosamaria Kostic Cisneros Research Fellow at C-DaRE, the Generations exhibition shines a spotlight on Coventry's Gypsy Roma Traveller community and features images of Roma families captured by local photographers Antony Weir and Georgia Bond.

The exhibition is one of the outputs of the Gypsy Roma Traveller in Higher Education: Influencing Policy project whose partners include the Belgrade Theatre Coventry. The exhibition has been postponed but an online preview can be viewed below. You can find out more about the exhibition here.

The hope is that the arts exhibitions that were curated and created for the project could be used to discuss the broader social-political issues and be a platform to educate people from various communities.

Connecting across the Quarantine

C-DaRE colleagues coming together whilst working apart. Edited together by two of our PhD students Erica Charalambous and Charlie Ingram. We hope you enjoy it!

PhD News

Midlands 4 Cities Success!

Following the M4C application process we are very pleased to have been awarded at least four M4C studentships for September 2020, building on our internationally-recognised research into dance in the contexts of health and wellbeing, philosophy and culture, practice research, archiving practices, and dance and disability. The centre’s partnerships with leading British cultural organisations have been recognised in their two Collaborative Doctoral Awards with Candoco Dance Company (researching inclusive performances) and Chisenhale Dance (researching UK independent dance). You can find our more about the M4C scheme here.

PhD Completions

Congratulations to three of our PhD candidates who have all completed their PhDs in recent months:

Gustavo Fijalkow – with a thesis entitled “National Dance Platforms. A comparative study of the cases in Germany, the UK, Israel and Sri Lanka” (awarded)

Ilya Vidrin – with a thesis entitled “Reasoning in Relation: A Normative Inquiry of Dancing Together” (awarded with minor corrections)

Debbie Fionn Barr with a thesis entitled “Moving into and Beyond Form: Sankalpam, Bharata Natyam and the UK Dance Landscape” (awarded with minor corrections)

Project News

New project! Cooking Connections Coventry: Home-based Sensory Food Experiences for Wellbeing

The project brings together artist-researchers from Coventry University and University of Warwick, and participants recruited through Groundwork’s Cook Together Eat Together network. Cooking Connections Coventry explores how creative food-based sensory activities can support wellbeing for older people in isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Cooking boxes containing recipes and ingredients, accompanied by sensory cues, will be delivered to participants homes as part of the project activities.

Find out more on our website.

Visit our website to find out more.

Interactive Dialogues: Ethics and Equity in Practice Research - Dance and Theatre

The necessity to engage in a dialogue around the issues of Ethics and Equity in Dance and Theatre has been identified in the field of artistic practice and in the academic sector of Practice Research. This project is directed to Post Graduate Researchers, artists and Early Career Researchers. We will be keeping the conversation going by setting up a steering committee or working groups to take forward outcomes from a national survey (now closed), one to one interviews, and through a one day symposium including key stakeholders.

Somatics at the Nexus of the Pandemic and Pain: Part I
In this first blog post, Alexander Technique teacher Professor Glenna Batson shares her viewpoint on somatics and pain amid the pandemic.

New Blog Posts

During the pandemic the project team have been adding new resources to the website you can view them here.

Injury and persistent pain in dancers
Interview with physiotherapist Dr. Ross Armstrong. His research examines screening tools for predicting injury in dance, looking at hypermobility in dancers as well as fatigue.

Call for Posters and Videos

Unfortunately the REACH conference planned for the 4th - 5th June 2020 in Pisa was cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The call for posters and videos is still alive and the contributions will be published online.

Download the application form here.

The Call for Posters and Videos aims to collect contributions from innovative and interesting Cultural Heritage projects that involve resilient communities and social participation from all over Europe.
You are invited to join the Call and present your achievements for improving a participative and resilient cultural heritage milieu.

Call is open till October 2020!

DBiC Podcast Series

Episode 9 welcomes cultural and creative director Frankie Ranford from the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum in the heart of Coventry - Listen Here

You can find the previous episodes here.

Impact and Future Exploitation

The Kaleidoscope project completed in February this year. The project aimed to engage with a wide range of publics and stakeholders, through sourcing, sharing, and identifying photographs in collections.

You can read the final blog and the full report on "Feedback Collection, Impact and Future Exploitation" here.

By contributing to Europeana.eu, the aim was to enrich the collections and provide more resources for cultural institutions. The project sought to influence curatorial practices and exhibition methods, in addition to extending into the educational sector.

Events

Free Q&A webinar on Dance and Law

19th June 11am, with legal expert Professor Charlotte Waelde and dance experts Professor Sarah Whatley and Dr Kate Marsh of C-DaRE.

Who owns this dance?
https://www.instagram.com/p/B22za3xD1Fh/

What about this one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj5Kp38Oz04

Or this one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9MPHeRwTY0

In this period of social distancing, dancing has been happening at home, shared in the digital space on TikTok, Youtube, Instagram and Facebook. Videos go viral, and thousands of people learn and perform choreography on social media. Popular influencers can earn significant sums of money from these viral sensations. But who owns these dances? Can you claim copyright over your choreography, if so, how? What can you do if your choreography has been reproduced without your permission?

C-DaRE is hosting a free Q&A webinar for you to ask your questions about dance and the law. You might also want to look at this free toolkit resource that we’ve created around dance, disability and law. It draws attention to legal frameworks in place and how these can be used by all dancers, event organisers and venue programmers to develop a deeper understanding of the law, the language of human rights, and how these can be used to support dance artists.

The Toolkit can be found here:
http://dancetoolkit.coventry.ac.uk/

The Q&A will take place via Zoom
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88526685257

You can submit your questions in advance by emailing ad2944@coventry.ac.uk or just turn up and ask!

We look forward to you joining us!

C-DaRE Invites... Online

In response to the Corona Virus lockdown the C-DaRE Invites… event series moved online. We were very pleased to be able to continue to support and share the research of our invitees. Each of the online invites have been quite different. You can view all of the material so far on the C-DaRE Youtube Channel. We also invite you to share your responses to these videos in the comments or email Lily Hayward-Smith.

Jonathan Burrows - The Paper Bag Provocations

Rosie Kay Residency - Absolute Solo II

New Publications

Dance Fields: Staking a Claim for Dance Studies in the Twenty-First Century 2020

In 2017 the dance research community gathered in London for the first major international conference on dance studies in the UK for twenty years.

Emerging out of that conference, this volume marks the significant ‘moment in time’ in the history and development of Dance Studies as an academic discipline.

The 2017 conference was co-convened by three leading centres for Dance Studies in the UK at the Universities of Coventry, De Montfort and Roehampton, and the collection edited by three academics from those respective universities. More at www.dancebooks.co.uk.

Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices

We invite submissions to the journal on an ongoing basis. If you are interested in submitting a paper please visit our journal website.

Click here for Journal Subscriptions

C-DaRE Recommends...

Rosemary Lee, choreographer & Associate Professor at C-DaRE will be delving into the archives & sharing 3 of her films through Artsadmin.

The first is 'boy' which you can view here.

Image: Tom Evans photographed by Margaret Williams

Thank you for reading!

Fifties in Europe Kaleidoscope is co-financed by the Connecting Europe Facility Programme of the European Union, under GA n. INEA/CEF/ICT/A2017/1568496