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February 2022
News, events and opportunities!
Welcome to the first edition of the 2022 C-DaRE Newsletter.
As we begin this year, we are looking forward with anticipation to emerging partnerships across Coventry University and further afield. C-DaRE has been joined in the building that was known as ICE (Institute for Creative Enterprise) by two other Coventry research centres, the Centres for Post-Digital Cultures (CPC) and the Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities (CAMC). As can be read in the newsletter below in Upcoming Events, Save-the-Dates and Project news, C-DaRE’s research often involves collaboration with other disciplines in both the humanities and sciences, and we look forward to what can emerge from this closer proximity with CPC and CAMC.
For any queries about the items below contact cdare.fah@coventry.ac.uk.
Upcoming Events
VIBES Outdoor experience - Volunteers needed!
Image: Vibes
VIBES is a Creative Europe-funded project with partners from Italy and France. The Centre for Dance Research is a partner to this project and we have devised an outdoor experience that connects you to nature, the environment and your moving body. You hear instructions through headphones and from an app on your mobile phone. We would like a group of volunteers to come and test this out in University Square on Thursday 10th and Friday 11th February. We will provide a warm drink and a snack for taking part! We would like to ask you a few questions after your experience to help us refine the instructions. Click below to register for this event.
WEAVE Capacity Building LabDays
Image: WEAVE
We have a full calendar of WEAVE events programmed for Winter-Spring 2022, with a focus on four online events for cultural heritage sessions and separately sessions on capacity building looking at cultural heritage and inclusivity. The effort is devoted to both cultural heritage institutions via a series of Europeana WEAVE events to support a more diverse and inclusive cultural heritage sector. Additionally, further capacity building workshops with cultural communities led by the C-DaRE WEAVE team (Rosa Cisneros, Marie-Louise Crawley and Sarah Whatley) will explore ways of improving communities’ engagement with tangible and intangible heritage. Events run between 11th February and 18th March 2022 for the full calendar of events please see here.
Save the Date's...
C-DaRE Invites... Professor Mônica Fagundes Dantas - 28th February 2022
Mônica Fagundes Dantas (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) has returned to C-DaRE as a visiting researcher until April 2022. Mônica will be sharing her research in this next C-DaRE Invites... session. Mônica recently wrote this article about her work on the Eva Schul Archive with Rosa Cisneros (C-DaRE).
More details about this event to follow. If you are interested in attending this event please email Lily Hayward-Smith
On 6th May 2022, between 2-4 pm, C-DaRE’s Assistant Professor and Marie Curie Fellow, Daniel Bisig will be presenting his research on recording and synthesising dance data (both quantitative and qualitative) for improving the creative possibilities of working with dance in the digital domain at the Centre for Computer Science and Mathematical Modelling. To read more information about Daniel’s research visit his project website.
On 18th May 2022, between 1-2.30 pm, the Human Centered-ness Project and GAP_E team (see below) will host a C-DaRE Invites… event to present its current projects and plans. This C-DaRE Invites… builds on the Bodies, AI, Ethics and Diversity event held in November 2020 (read more about that event on the CU research blog). And to learn more about how the Ethics, AI and dance work at C-DaRE began, check out this video that reflects on the WhoLoDance project. We look forward to seeing you in May!
News
Howlround Creative Commons invites Rosa Cisneros to join team
Image: WEAVE Project
HowlRound is a free and open platform for theatre makers worldwide that amplifies progressive, disruptive ideas about the art form and facilitates connection between diverse practitioners. Cultural Strategist & co-founder Vijay Mathew from Emerson College (USA) and Independent Theatre Hungary (Hungary) asked asked Rosa Cisneros to be part of their Roma Theatre Retrospective 2021.
An entirely virtual endeavour, this project featured forty livestreamed events—twenty performances and interviews, each streamed twice—from seventy Romani artists in ten countries. These performances were all initially featured during four editions of the Roma Heroes International Theatre Festival in Budapest, which the Independent Theatre Hungary has organized annually since 2017. Read this essay by Cisneros based on interviews with Howlround participants: Roma Heroes, Superpowers, and Human Agency: Exploring Taboo Topics in Independent Theater Hungary’s Festivals
Image: Research Hootenanny 2022
The Coventry University Research Hootenanny took place this week between Monday 31 January – Friday 4 February 2022, for its sixth year this was a hybrid event that received great feedback online from physical and virtual participants, with a full programme including C-DaRE's Kathryn Stamp running a session on 'Researching outside the box: disrupting and reshaping research practice through transdisciplinarity',
Projects
The Shape of Sound
The Shape of Sound project has been continuing to explore hair cells in the inner ear and how this embodied technology developed and connects us to the world around us. The project has recently been awarded a Coventry University City of Culture grant to support public engagement activities. The collaborators, Karen Wood, Lily Hayward-Smith, Louisa Petts (C-DaRE), Petra Johnson and Vip Artpradid (Independent) are developing workshops and performances to take into local schools and community groups.
To discover more about the project please visit the website.
Video Still - Footage from the Shape of Sound performance at the Being Human Festival 2021
AHRC Network project; Music, Medicine and Dance: exploring what it means to perform
This new network project begins next month. Led by Roger Kneebone (Director, Centre for Engagement and Simulation Science, Division of Surgery, Imperial College London), with Sarah Whatley (Co-Investigator) and involving a number of other C-DaRE researchers, the network brings together experts across medicine, dance, music, fine arts and science to investigate the cross-disciplinary approaches to performance. A number of events will be open to colleagues to join in the discussions.
Making Connections: Coding, Weaving and Flamenco project film completed
Image: Making Connections: Coding, Weaving and Flamenco
The UKRI supported Making Connections: Coding, Weaving and Flamenco project was exploring the intersections of the three areas. The project was successfully completed in December and a film was produced by Reel Masters Productions to highlight some of the findings and the artistic explorations. Lucy Cheesman, Rosa Cisneros and Alex McClean targeted young people from ‘excluded’ communities to use the digital looms, navigate the flamenco patterns and create music using coding programs. The workshops revealed that through digital technologies commonalities between dance, music, textiles and computer science can be linked to talking about education and identity. The project also organically supported and fed into the EU-Funded WEAVE project. The medium-length film can be viewed here.
Image: Making Connections: Coding, Weaving and Flamenco
Transdisciplinary Endeavours
Exploring Ethics and Technology
Since announcing the Human Centered-ness Project last June, the core transdisciplinary team, comprising Scott deLahunta and Kathryn Stamp from C-DaRE and James Brusey, Elena Gaura and Alison Halford from the Centre for Computer Science and Mathematical Modelling, has developed a handful of projects focusing on ethical practices in technology development. These include a deliverable for the EnergyREV project, aiming to improve the understanding of how ethics is applied in the energy data sector, and the Doctoral Training Award studentship titled Smart Cities and AI: supporting ethical development from the bottom up. With this part rebranded as GAP_E[thics], the team is consolidating its connections both inside and outside the University, looking at sources of funding and opportunities to co-author papers and presentations. A website is planned where more details will be available, and an upcoming C-DaRE invites (18 May 2022) will be an opportunity for the group to present its work live.
WEAVE
On 3rd February 2022, WEAVE’s Rosa Cisneros and Marie-Louise Crawley (C-DaRE) facilitated a Dream Team session at the European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry:
The Dream Team session used the case study of WEAVE to underpin the exploration of the project’s innovative methodological framework for capacity building for Cultural Heritage Institutions to work with cultural communities and with Digital Intangible Heritage. This session specified hands-on methodologies, building on the model of the LabDay methodology that Cisneros and Crawley used in the CultureMoves Europeana Generic Service project (for more on this methodology, see CultureMoves [2019] D3.1 White Paper: Dance in Tourism, Research and Education [p. 89-91].
Somatic Practice and Chronic Pain Network
Image: Somatic Practice and Chronic Pain Network
This month, the network has been featured on Somatic Radio with Dieter Rehberg. We are also presenting at the UK Association for Somatic Movement Dance Therapy weekend training on ‘Easing pain & releasing stress’ on February 12-13. We welcome blog posts from people living with pain or working with pain for our website on the theme of ‘Moving with Pain’. Contact Emma Meehan.
WEAVE Mentioned in the ResDance Podcast series
Image: Dr Gemma Harman,
ResDance Podcast series, curated by Dr Gemma Harman, Senior Lecturer in Dance and Dance Science, Dance Department at the University of Chichester, includes Rosa Cisneros and former C-DaRE PhD student Rebecca Stancliffe, in a podcast dedicated to research methodologies and methods in dance practice, intended for educators, students, practitioners and performers and interdisciplinary researchers curious to learn more about dance research in action. All episodes are free and can be heard at the following link: ResDance Podcast.
Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices
JDSP Survey - Last chance to take the survey!
The journal editors and advisory board aim to make the journal inclusive and open to anyone that has an interest in publishing from writing to editing. We are planning to put on a series of webinars about journal publishing in order to demystify the process and build confidence in our community about publishing in and for journals.
We have devised this short anonymous survey in order to gain some insight into the needs of the community. As a thank you for taking part there is a code for discounts on journal subscriptions on completion of the survey! We would appreciate your input.
The Survey closes on the 14th February.
You can find our last issue here, or check out our archive for our historical editions.
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