Image credit: Researching Orchard Portraits. Roswitha Chesher filming James Tucker.  Photo Matt Link

Hello 

In the Secret Life of Trees, Colin Tudge writes that the reason we human beings “have such dextrous hands and whirling arms is that our ancestors spent 80 million years or so in the trees”. One of C-DaRE’s artist researchers, Rosemary Lee, sent in this quote while working on a new video installation called Orchard Portraits. In it the performers explore “how their bodies measure the tree, and how the tree measures it back to them.” Like Rosemary’s curiosity about humankind’s ancient relationship to trees, much of our work here at C-DaRE seeks to understand how we remember the past. Rosa Cisneros organised the Holocaust Memorial Day: Ordinary People presented at Millennium Gallery in Sheffield on 27 Friday. That same week, artist-scholar Ruth Gibson, postgraduate researcher Julio Escudero and Deakin University’s Stefan Greuter spent time strapped into the future in a Teslasuit, while Sioban Davies got to be hyper-cool in the music video Check For Signs Of Life by Radiohead’s Philip Selway. In the very recent past (last autumn), we welcomed Teoma Naccarato as a postdoctoral fellow – perhaps you might like to take a look at her contribution to A World of Muscle, Bone & Organs: Research and Scholarship in Dance back from when Teoma was a PhD student at C-DaRE. 

For those of you on the look-out for PhD studentship opportunities, there’s Cripping the Archive (deadline 15 May 2023) and Consent, touch and power (deadline 14 April 2023) and of course, thinking of the future of dance research, the Dance Research Matters AHRC Network call is live. 

More again at the end of the month.   

Yours in motion,
C-DaRE