Dance Fields is an important collection of papers, arising from a 2017 conference convened by the Centre for Dance Research (Coventry University), the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Dance (De Montfort University) and the Centre for Dance Research (University of Roehampton). The conference celebrated the coming of age of Dance Studies within the ‘academy’ and is evidence of the breadth, depth, and originality of research on dance in UK universities. Stephanie Jordan’s Opening Panel Paper notes the vast range of dance scholarship, embracing areas as diverse as history, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, dance science, and of course the dance itself; its choreography and practice. This collection, through its scope and varied styles of presentation, with examples of interaction between ‘traditional’ and practitioner modes of scholarship, demonstrates the intellectual extent and value of Dance Studies as a discipline in its own right.
(more…)November 16, 2020
Dance Fields: Staking a Claim for Dance Studies in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Ann R. David, Michael Huxley & Sarah Whatley – Maggie Watson reviews
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September 14, 2016
Oxford Youth Dance Living and Moving Archive Event and Celebration, various venues Saturday 17th September 2016
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Oxford Youth Dance extend a warm invitation to all their friends to the third and final event of their 30th Anniversary Year. Ranging over a day the Living and Moving Archive Event and Celebration will take place in OYD’s three homes. Daytime activities are curated by a team of four young people currently or previously members of OYD; their Four Rooms Project at Fusion Arts and East Oxford Community Centre will include taster workshops, film screenings, performances, archival exhibitions and food and drink. In the evening activity will continue at Ark T Centre with the launch of Cecilia Macfarlane and Ruth Pethybridge‘s book Any Body, Any Age, Any Dance published by People Dancing (formerly the Foundation for Community Dance). There will also be a film screening and four specially choreographd dances by Crossover Intergenerational Dance Company to go with the chapters of the book, followed by a birthday supper and disco. This event is for EVERYONE; from those who began with Cecilia in 1986, through to those who are interested in beginning dance in the future.
OYD hopes that you will join them for some or all of this special day, and look forward to seeing you there!
OYD Team: Cecilia Macfarlane, Elly Crowther, Rachel Gildea
OYD Creative Apprentices: Emily Wheeler, Charis Taplin, Alfie Bowlby, Callum Ruddock
Date: Saturday 17th September 2016
11.00am-4.00pm: Fusion Arts and East Oxford Community Centre, 44 Princes Street, Oxford OX4 1DD
7.30pm -late: Ark T Centre, Crowell Road, Oxford OX4 3LN
Free, all welcome
Oxford Youth Dance gratefully acknowledges support from Oxford University and Oxford City Council Culture Fund.
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