1) EVENTS & COLLABORATIONS
Research Seminar – Talk with Teoma Naccarato and John MacCallum
15th March 17:15-18:45
ICE Building, Coventry University
Free to attend
Choreography and Composition of Internal Time is an ongoing practice-based research and creation project, in which we are investigating temporal relationships between physiology, such as heart rate and breath, with rhythms in movement, music, and mediated environments. If you are interested in attending the event, please email
Europeana Space Digital Dance Day
16th March 10:00 – 16:00
Ellen Terry Building, Coventry University
Free to attend
As part of the EU-funded Europeana Space (ESpace) project, C-DaRE will be holding a Digital Dance Day, to showcase two recently developed digital tools for dance practice and scholarship. ESpace is a three-year project, now in its second year, which examines the creative reuse of cultural heritage across a range of art and media forms. Find out more here:
* The event is free, but places are limited and participants must register before 11th March via the following link: If you have any questions please email Hetty Blades
Research Seminar – Talk with Amanda Williamson
16th March 17:00 -18.15
ICE Building, Coventry University
Free to attend
‘Falling-in-love with language: Between Ricoeur and Husserl’
Amanda will present research from a book chapter ‘Falling-in-love with language: Between Ricoeur and Husserl’ from Performing Phenomenologies of Dance and Enactment, edited by Sondra Fraleigh. Find out more here:If you are interested in attending the event, please email
Research Seminar – Artist Retreat Sharing with Sandra Reeve
18th March 12:00-14:00
ICE Performance Studio, Coventry University
Free to attend
Sandra Reeve’s ‘ecological movement’ approach considers the artist’s and audience’s inter-relationship with the context of the work. This ingrains site as an integral part of the art-making process, as it emerges out of the affordances offered by the site (and out of the artist and audience ‘collaborating’ in the site). The ecological movement approach also raises wider social and political issues about the interdependence of humans and the surrounding ecology. Sandra Reeve will facilitate an artist’s retreat from 14-18 March, exploring the context of Coventry city as an urban environment, with a final day sharing on the 18th of March which is open to the public. This project is funded by Coventry University and partnered by Decoda and City Arcadia. If you are interested in attending the event, please email
External Event – Beyond Jewellery: Performing the Body Symposium
17th March – 10am-5pm
Parkside Gallery, Birmingham City University The Beyond
Jewellery symposium coincides with flockOmania2, an exhibition and live performance event which crosses boundaries between jewellery and dance. Located within the field of contemporary art jewellery, this symposium explores the relationships between sculptural objects, the body and performance.
Further information available here:
Booking available here:
External Event – flockOmania
22nd Feb – 2nd April
Parkside Gallery, Birmingham City University
flockOmania is the solo exhibition created by jewellery artist Zoe Robertson showcasing wearable objects, exploring the interrelationship between Jewellery and Performance. The exhibition has been created in response to a collaborative relationship with dance artists Dr. Natalie Garrett Brown and Amy Voris. The resulting jewellery is theatrically-sized to emphasize and explore themes relating to the scale and movement of the body. The flockomania 2 exhibition is organised in collaboration between colleagues at the School of Jewellery (Birmingham City University) and Centre for Dance Research (Coventry University). For more information please visit
External Event – Games // Art // Hackathon Workshop
16th – 17th April
Game City, Nottingham
Games // Art // Hackathon is an intensive weekend workshop, which will allow artists, coders and technologists to collaborate, team up and develop prototypes of game art projects. The Games // Art // Hackathon is part of Europeana Space, a large EU-funded project, which examines the creative reuse of online content across a range of media and art forms (). Building on three game prototypes developed as part of the project, this event will explore the gamification of online culture, and consider how innovative new game projects might cultivate new forms of participation.
Participants will be entered into a competition, which involves regularly pitching their ideas and prototypes to a jury of experts, over the two days and a final presentation. The three winning projects will receive further mentoring from Simon Cronshaw from Remix Summits (), and the chance to participate in a Business Modelling Workshop to further shape their projects and develop business plans. These three finalists will then compete for three months of tailored business incubation from world-class industry leaders. You can either come to the workshop with a ready-formed small team with an existing project or you can find someone to collaborate with at the workshop on a new idea. It’s completely free to take part – please email Hetty Blades () for more information.
Body ^ Space ^ Object ^ Memory ^ Identity Symposium
20th May 9am-5pm
ICE building, Coventry University
Following on from last year’s Memory ^ sentiment ^ body ^ space ^ object, this year’s event builds on the collaboration between the Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE) and researchers in the School of Art and Design, and invites contributions from scholars and practitioners from across the arts and humanities. This one-day symposium will address how performers, artists and designers suggest the relationship of individuals to their surroundings.
Rituals of the everyday, of memory, of making things special, and of moving through space and leaving traces are all important factors in being human and developing a sense of self. Many artists, designers and performers have considered these aspects, and it is how these have been addressed that the symposium will explore. Please see here for information:
Research Seminar – Talk with Endalyn M Taylor
25th May 17:00-18.15
ICE building, Coventry University
Taylor is Assistant Professor of Dance, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She joined the Dance Theatre of Harlem in 1984 and became a principal dancer in 1993. In 1992, Taylor made her Broadway debut in Carousel and went on to perform in two other Tony Award-winning musicals, The Lion King and Aida. Taylor has been commissioned to choreograph several works over the last five years, including as part of the Works and Process at the Guggenheim series, for the High School of Performing Arts in New York City, for the Institute on Domestic Violence in the African American Community, and for the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. Taylor has been the director of the Dance Theatre of Harlem School, where she was recently invited to bring 10 of her students to the White House to participate in a new arts initiative of the Obamas.
2) NEWS
CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS
ES Dance DancePro Quality Assurance Testing
The E-Space Dance Pilot is looking for professional dancers, choreographers and researchers to support the Pilot’s activity. We are in the process of testing our new annotation tool, DancePro and are looking for participants to carry out quality assurance testing over a series of weeks. You will gain access to the annotation tool and will have an opportunity to share your knowledge and experiences with the team. In exchange, the developers will support you throughout the agreed testing timeframe to ensure that the tool supports your work and that the process is useful, hopefully enhancing your practice. *Please note this is not a paid role.
To find out more get in touch with Hetty Blades () or Rosa Cisneros () Sarah Whatley is the project and pilot coordinator.
Information on the tool:
DancePro focuses on the needs of researchers and dance experts (e.g. dance artists, choreographers) who need a set of much more powerful tools for accessing dance content and creating extensive metadata. The tool allows you to record and annotate videos in real-time or to annotate previously recorded videos; it allows several types and modes of annotations and is designed to support the creative and compositional processes of professional choreographers and dancers, and also has an analytic and scholarly use too.
Project information can be found at Europeana Space:
Pilot information can be found at E-Space Dance Pilot:
PUBLICATIONS NEWS
FOUR BIBLETS on Irregular Walking and Curious Movement
Attending to Movement edited by Sarah Whatley, Natalie Garrett Brown and Kirsty Alexander is now available as a Biblet from Triarchy Press and you can access it for free here:
Attending to Movement
What do ’embodied thinking’ and ‘somatic action’ mean? What can they offer performers, dancers and thinkers today?
CALL FOR FILMS
Trans(m)it is a five day online film festival celebrating artists from all over the world. We welcome the submission of films up to 20 minutes in length that have meaningful collaboration as an essential component of the filmmaking or performance process.
The final day of the film festival will feature the submissions awarded ‘best of’ status, and will be screened live on May 27th at the 1fiftyone gallery + art space in Philadelphia, PA.
For more information, or to submit your work, please visit our submission site:
Deadline: March 25th, 2016
Festival dates: May 23rd – 27th 2016, C-DaRE PhD student Rebecca Weber is the co- Director for Project Trans(m)it ()