ResDance Series 9: Episode 1: Embedded in Dance Research: The first graduating cohort of MA Dance: Participation, Communities, Activism

In this episode, the cohort come together to explore movement practices and the way in which they continue to embed themselves and their practices within their own communities. Through situating our conversation around their own practices, we explore ideas around community, participatory and activist movement practice and the role of a co-creating process in negotiating a coming together in the space of cultural thinking. In this rich conversation, contributors offer insight into the ways in which they continue to interrogate and develop practice in the pursuit of making change by placing themselves atthe fore, to question how we come together in imagining how the future may look and the wider value of doing things differently in the light of the shifting discourses and challenges of the moment.

Gladys Agulhas, Marilia Bassetto Coelho, Anno Bolender, Joseph Jeffers, Filip Kijowski, Bianca Kruppa, Jo Parkes, Ruth Pethybridge

Profiles of the staff and students in conversation can befound here: https://theplace.org.uk/lcds-courses/madancepca

MA Dance Participation, Communities, Activism

This MA Programme is for students who want to develop a socially engaged dance practice which addresses theurgencies of our times. You will join a global community of artists and researchers working at the intersection of community dance and arts activism. You may have an emerging community, participatory or activist movement practicewhich you want to develop, or you may be an established maker who wants to interrogate and develop your practice in the light of the shifting discourses and challenges of the moment.

Photo credit: Carim Agulhas Dance: Gladys Agulhas

For more information please visit: https://theplace.org.uk/lcds-courses/madancepca

Instagram: @ma_dance_pca  

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