Summer/Autumn 2020

News, events and opportunities!

Welcome to the latest edition of the C-DaRE Newsletter. Below, you'll find on overview of what has been happening in the last few months and some exciting things to come. We would like to highlight the C-DaRE Invites... online event on Dance AI & Ethics on 25th November, some details are below and we will be sharing more about that and how you can join soon. Also, there are some very exciting PhD opportunities below. The deadline for applications to these fully funded studentships is the 16th October 2020

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

News

ERIAC Dance Contest

Artist-Researcher Rosa Cisneros was a jury member for the “HAJDE TE KHELAS” European Roma Institute Arts and Culture (ERIAC) Dance Contest to Reinvent and Promote Roma Dance Heritage.  The Hajde Te Khelas - ERIAC Dance Contest called all Roma experts of dance, movement art and choreography, who perform alone, in pairs or in bigger groups from all over the world to present the virtuosity and diversity of Roma dance heritage passed on from generation to generation by applying with a short dance video.  Hajde Te Khelas was a merit-based dance competition which considered the following criteria: 

• restoring traditional dance moves and forms;
• virtuosity of movement, and expression of emotions through dance;
• intention of choreography and presentation;
• authenticity of movements of certain regional traditions;
• reinvention of Roma dance heritage in contemporary dance and movement art.

There were several prizes and the international expert jury selected 10 winners. ERIAC received over 66 videos from 116 musicians from 19 countries and engaged over a million Facebook views between June 8 and July 10, 2020. 

For more info and to see the winners of the contest visit the ERIAC page here.

New Blog - Why Dance and Dance Studies Matter

In a new blog for Palgrave Macmillan, Sarah Whatley, director of C-DaRE and co-editor of Art and Dance in Dialogue: Body, Space, Object (new book info below!), discusses the relationship between dance and the visual arts, and how Dance Studies is responding to the challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic. You can read the blog by clicking here.

New Staff: Welcome Daniel Bisig!

In April this year we welcomed assistant professor Daniel Bisig to the C-DaRE team. Daniel is funded for two years through a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship. His research lies at the intersection of artificial intelligence, generative art and dance. The Fellowship provides time for Daniel to deepen his understanding of dance and choreographic practice. Daniel shared his research in a C-DaRE Invites... Online event on the 1st July. A recording of this event will be made available to watch on the C-DaRE YouTube Channel.

C-DaRE Conversations... on Touch

If you haven't watched this series of conversations yet then head to our YouTube channel where you can watch the first two. These conversations started as a response to the article 'Touch saved me from loneliness, what will we become without it?' by V (formerly Eve Ensler) in the Guardian on 21st April 2020. This article resonated with many of the C-DaRE team and we wanted to share our thoughts on the loss of touch being experienced by so many due to the Covid-19 lockdown. 

If you have any thoughts or questions following the first two conversations please contact Lily Hayward-Smith. 

Visiting Researcher

C-DaRE has been host to many visiting scholars over the last few years, from institutions such as Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil and Deakin University, Australia. This year Yan Fu from Jiang Xi University of Finance and Economics (China) is at C-DaRE for 12 months to undertake research on dance and choreography.

PhD News & Opportunities

COVID - 19 PhD Studentships

C-DaRE is offering 3 fully-funded PhD Studentships (fees and stipend) beginning January 2021, which focus on how the UK dance sector is responding to the COVID crisis.

Application deadline: 16th October 2020
Eligibility: UK/EU graduates with the required entry requirements
Funding details: Bursary plus tuition fees (UK/EU)
Duration: Full-Time – between three and three and a half years fixed term
Start date: January 2021

We welcome applications from all sectors of the community and particularly those currently under-represented in the Centre.

Click here or on the titles above for more information, and details about how to apply.

PhD Studentship - Mobilizing Dramaturgy

C-DaRE, Coventry University, and Aarhus University are inviting applications from suitably qualified UK or EU graduates for fully-funded PhD studentships for research into the umbrella topic Mobilizing Dramaturgy

Institutions Need To Be Constructed by BADco. @ 15th International Architecture Exhibition / La Biennale di Venezia, 28.05. – 27.11. 2016 Photo: Dinko Rupčić

Application deadline: 16th October 2020
Eligibility: UK/EU graduates with the required entry requirements
Funding details: Bursary plus tuition fees
Duration: Full-time – between three and three and a half years fixed term
Start date: January 2021

The successful candidates will enrol at Coventry University as their home institution and will undertake a collaborative doctoral research programme under the supervision of academic experts from both universities, spending a minimum of one year or up to two years at Aarhus University in Denmark.

The programme offers researchers the opportunity to advance their skills and expertise in the higher education field, whilst developing their intercultural and international skills, and creating international networks and collaborations.

For full details, entry requirements and how to apply visit our website

Enquiries may be addressed to Dr Susanne Foellmer

PhD Completions - Well Done!! 

Congratulations to two of our PhD candidates who have completed their PhDs in recent months. Both with minor corrections. 

Kathryn Stamp with the thesis:  Shifting the lens: An exploration into the design and impact of dance and disability interventions.

Vip Artpradid with the thesis:  Dance, disability, and the pluralistic audience: A phenomenographic engagement. Vip has been appointed to one of the new Coventry University post-doctoral positions for successful PhD candidates. She will begin in the next couple of months.

Coventry University Visualise your Thesis Competition

Well done to PhD student Micia de Wet who has been given 2nd prize at the Coventry University Visualise Your Thesis Competition 2020. Click below to see her video entry. 

Events

Dial-a-Spectacle: A miniseries of remote analogue performances

Book by 20th September to participate

Created by By C-DaRE PhD Student Emillie Gallier, 'Dial-a-Spectacle' is a miniseries of remote and analogue performances presented over seven weeks, from September 24 to November 5. The miniseries starts through postal mail and continues over the phone every Thursday at 8pm (UTC+1), for a routine that involves reading with tactile eyes, listening in on surfacing images, and listening out for margins.

The starting point for ‘Dial-a-Spectacle’ is Emilie's assiduous interest for how reading can be a performance and an implicating kinaesthetic experience for spectators and readers. From reading to speaking and listening over the phone, the programme of ‘Dial-a-Spectacle’ generates attention to different forms of remote spectatorship. It starts with the pocket book ‘Papier incomestible’, which is a reading performance, situated in the intimate space of the reader. ‘Papier telephone’ then takes the act of reading to the listening space of the phone. Bouncing from these two events, three new works are specially produced for ‘Dial-a-Spectacle’, by the magician Vincent Gambini (aka Augusto Corrieri), by the poet and composer Margarida Guia and by writer, dramaturge, radio maker and mixer, Fransien van der Putt. For the detailed program of ‘Dial-a-Spectacle’ visit the website.

To join this limited edition of ‘Dial-a-Spectacle’, subscribe before September 20, by sending us your full name and your postal address by replying to this email at dialaspectacle@gmail.com (your data will only be used for the time of the miniseries and will later be erased from our file). Full instructions will be shared upon subscription. Attendance to ‘Dial-a-Spectacle’ will cost you the price of local phone calls.

SAVE THE DATE

C-DaRE Invites... Online -  Scott deLahunta, Alison Powell & Marco Gillies
25th November 2020
13:00 - 15:00 on Zoom

Dance AI & Ethics is a C-DaRE research project drawing on past, current and future projects involving dance and technology to open a new line of enquiry into the relationship between machines and bodies with a focus on ethics-in-practice. We invite you to join this on-line C-DaRE Invites... to hear from project investigators Scott deLahunta from C-DaRE, Alison Powell, Director of the JUST-AI Network, and Marco Gillies, Director of 4i: Immersive Interaction Design for Indie Developers with Interactive Machine Learning. More details will be coming soon.

Project News

New Publications

ERROR, AMBIGUITY, AND CREATIVITY: A Multidisciplinary Reader
Editor:s Sita Popat and Sarah Whatley

This book offers a set of eleven discipline-specific chapters from across the arts, humanities, psychology, and medicine. Each contributor considers the creative potential of error and/or ambiguity, defining these terms in the particular context of that discipline and exploring their values and applications.

For full details and purchase information click here

Art and Dance in Dialogue:Body, Space, Object
Editors: Sarah Whatley, Imogen Racz, Katerina Paramana and Marie-Louise Crawley

This interdisciplinary book brings together essays that consider how the body enacts social and cultural rituals in relation to objects, spaces, and the everyday, and how these are questioned, explored, and problematised through, and translated into dance, art, and performance.

For full details and purchase information click here

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.

Call for Reviewers

We are currently looking to expand our group of reviewers for the journal. We are looking for reviewers with knowledge and expertise in the broad field of dance and somatic practices. If you have an interest in becoming a reviewer for our journal or would like any more information please contact Lily Hayward-Smith.

C-DaRE Recommends...

The Moving Body (Le Corps Poétique)
3rd edition, trans. D Bradby

'In life, I want students to be alive and on stage I want them to be artists' Jacques Lecoq

Jacques Lecoq was one of the most inspirational theatre teachers of our age. In The Moving Body, he shares with us first-hand his unique philosophy of performance, improvisation, masks, movement and gesture, which together form one of the greatest influences on contemporary theatre.

Thank you for reading!