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

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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