Schedule

Tuesday 18^th December 9.00-6.00 pm 

Bridging dance training contexts: re-assessing techniques and skills for the social and cultural sphere. 

9.00 – 9.30   Registration and coffee 

9.30 Introduction  

Cathy Seago & Noyale Colin 

9:45 – 10:10 Keynote 

Fiona Bannon 

People Dancing: Artistic Citizen In Practice 

10:10 – 10:15 Film provocation 

Adesola Akinleye 

Emplacing Attempts at Claiming our Values 

  

10:15 – 11:30 Paper Panel  

Contemporary Training Strategies in HE: Collective Effort, Moving Identity, Reflexive Exploration and Messiness. 

Jamieson Dryburgh  

Dancing with each other: a pedagogical exploration of collective effort among peers in the dance technique class. 

Jenna Hubbard  

Alternating somatic approaches with set material. 

Jenny Roche  

An account of recent experiences in vocational dance training in the university context. 

Rachel Piekarczyk 

Contemplating the ‘messy area’ in dance technique education. 

  

11:30 – 11:45 Coffee and pastries  

11.45 – 12:45 Workshop  

Erica Stanton and David Waring. 

Simply for the Doing.   

12:45 – 1:30 Roundtable 

Bridging between teaching pragmatism and social engagement in dance training. 

Veronica Jobbins, Cathy Seago and Noyale Colin in discussion with dance teachers. 

1:30 – 2:15 Lunch 

2:15 - 3:00 A European perspective on dance technique 

Ingo Diehl 

Problematising hybridity. 

  

3:00 – 3:15 An updated perspective from the USA 

A film/ skype presentation by Melanie Bales & Rebecca Nettl-Fiol 

The Body Eclectic - the three spheres. 

  

3:15 – 4:00 Artists Roundtable 

Dance training and civic engagement. 

Chris Hutchings, Stephanie Schober, Vicki Hargreaves and Laura Doehler.  

4:00 - 4:15 Coffee 

4:15 – 5:30  Discussion Panel 
HE dance training and beyond. 

Gillian Hipp  

Laban at Work. 

Libby Worth  

What’s the ‘place’ of folk, traditional and national dance in the current UK dance training ecology?  

Sara Reed, Andrea Barzey, Denise Horsley and Becca Weber  

Bridging the gap: transferring learning between dance higher education and the professional (dance) world. 

  

5:30 – 6:00 Plenary