Dancing Otherwise: Reflections on Pluriversal Practices with Victoria Hunter, Daniela Perazzo and Michelle Elliott
In this second episode of their Dance Research Matters Network, Vicky, Daniela and Michelle remind listeners of the focus of their network, which aimed to explore how practices created by artists from diverse backgrounds and artistic perspectives, produce new understandings, positionalities and new modes of knowing. In this episode, they share insight into the network activities and how these have created new opportunities for dialogue around how we might thinkdifferently in our field. Through situating thinking in their own practices, they consider what being otherwise means to them and reflect upon the richness of what they have learnt from both the network and their approaches to pluriveral thinking. They discuss future dissemination of the network activities, the wider value of transdisciplinary debate and remind listeners as to the value of dance in demonstrating others modes of being and doing.
Dancing Otherwise: Exploring Pluriversal Practices Network
The network emerged from the investigators’ interests in dance and politics and a curiosity about the potential for dance to explore, illustrate and provoke ways of relating and being ‘otherwise’.
Website: www.dancingotherwise.com
Instagram: @dancingotherwise
Contributor biography: Victoria Hunter
Vicky Hunter is a Practitioner-Researcher and Professor in Site Dance and formerly head of the MA Choreography and Professional Practices programme at the University ofChichester. She joined Bath Spa in October 2023 and leads the AHRC ‘Dancing Otherwise: Exploring Pluriversal Practices’ network and is a member of the Ecotones research project led by Professor Amanda Bayley.
Her research is transdisciplinary and includes site dance practice and theory, embodied research methods and post human feminism, eco-somatic awareness, environmentalchoreography, practice-research methods, dance and new materialisms.
Biography: https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/our-people/vicky-hunter/
Contact: v.hunter@bathspa.ac.uk
Contributor biography: Daniela Perazzo
Daniela is Senior Lecturer in Dance and PostgraduateResearch Coordinator for the School of Arts at Kingston University London. Her research interrogates the intersections of the aesthetic and the political in contemporary choreography, focusing on the ethical, po(i)etic and criticalpotentialities of experimental and collaborative practices. Her publications include articles in Performance Philosophy, Performance Research, Dance Research Journal, Choreographic Practices and Contemporary Theatre Review, and the monograph Jonathan Burrows: Towards a Minor Dance (Palgrave, 2019). Her latest researchengages with notions of vulnerability and discomfort and attends to the gaps, difficulties and entanglements of modes of being in relation.
Biography: https://www.kingston.ac.uk/staff/profile/dr-daniela-perazzo-179/
Contact: D.Perazzo@kingston.ac.uk
Contributor biography: Michelle Elliott
Michelle is the Subject Leader for Dance at Bath Spa University with research interests in a range of sociocultural issues, the ontology of creativity and embodied cognitive theories. She has publications on critical approaches to dance analysis,dance and cultural identity politics and creativity research. Michelle is the co-convenor of the Creative Practice and Embodied Knowledge Research Group, a collective that aims to celebrate and elevate knowledge that exists and emerges from our creative, embodied interactions and experiences.
Biography: https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/our-people/michelle-elliott/
Contact: M.Elliott@bathspa.ac.uk
AHRC-funded Dance Research Matters Networks
The five AHRC-funded Dance Research Matters Networks explore current issues and generate change and legacy for thesector.
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