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[Commlist] Collaborative Doctoral Award - Centre for Dance Research, Coventry University

Tue Nov 01 18:07:09 GMT 2022





Karen Wood is delighted to pass on news of a fully funded PhD doctoral award on ‘Decolonisation, Dance and Curatorship: Interrogating situated colonial practices’in collaboration with The Bluecoat, Liverpool. This is part of the M4C-funded Collaborative Doctoral Award scheme.

This research award is hoping to recruit someone with relevant expertise and interests in dance practice and archival research. Hosted in the Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE), Coventry University, the award is in collaboration with the Bluecoat, Liverpool and hopes to open up new research possibilities with their archives and curators.

Full details here and links to application process here: https://www.midlands4cities.ac.uk/apply/

Any questions, do ask! but please share this with anyone you think might be interested.

*_Project Overview_*

This PhD project will examine the historical and geographical relevance of colonial histories in relation to dance and archival practices. This will be done by using The Bluecoat’s archive of 19th century migrating dance artists with the aim of exploring a multiplicity of influences on current dance practices. It examines through practice research, how dance contributes to the interrogation of the colonial history of archival practices in art spaces. This collaboration meets the aims of both HEI and partner: the Bluecoat, Liverpool’s contemporary arts centre, to reflect on its colonial past and influences on archives. The project chimes well with a larger questioning in dance of its relationship to social justice and how practices and narratives of inclusion and diversity can be put into dialogue in envisioning new modes of production. In addition, the Bluecoat are concerned with ‘undoing’ and ‘liberation’ from a dominant colonial paradigm (Vázquez, 2021) and how dance has an important role to play in this.

The project will ask these research questions: - What multiplicity of influences are there on dance practices such as ballet, tap, contemporary, live art etc? What is the impact of colonialism on these practices and how does this affect contemporary curatorship when influenced by colonialism at the time? - How can dance practice and curatorship have a symbiotic relationship for the future? - What can dance practice offer gallery spaces to rethink curatorship and addressing social justice?

The student will have the opportunity to have their practice mentored by Bluecoat, the oldest arts centre in the UK that programmes and supports contemporary arts practices.

_Supervision_

This will be led by Dr Karen Wood:_https://pureportal.coventry.ac.uk/en/persons/karen-wood

Along with Dr Rosa Cisneros_:__https://pureportal.coventry.ac.uk/en/persons/rosamaria-kostic-cisneros

and Bryan Biggs, Director of Cultural Legacies, Bluecoat.


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