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Embodied Dramaturgy: Liminal Movement in Dance and Theatre Call for Papers. February 28, 2025

The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Disability Call for Chapters. March 15, 2025

Foundations and Futures of Dance Scholarship in French Call for Papers. April 15, 2025
 

You are cordially invited to the fourth research seminar of the year from Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Warwick. The seminar, by Tania Cañas, will take place on Microsoft Teams on Wednesday 12th February from 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm.  
Tania Cañas, Archiving the Present: Memory as creative practice, Multi-local and site-specific creative memory work

Public memory practices are continual sites of struggle and contestation on unceded lands as the nation-state continually functions to relegate and dispossess memory. Archiving the Present (AtP) is a multi-site digital community archive project of "remembering as insurgent practice" (Cusicanqui 2020, p.xxxii) and memory as creative practice, from a Central American, site-specific, and multi-local perspective. The project is made up of artists and community members who are primarily of the Australian Salvadoran community, having arrived in Australia through the refugee and humanitarian program in the 80s and early 90s. Archiving the Present is a grass-roots initiative that seeks to develop alternative practices of remembering in ways that do not conform to whiteness and aesthetics of colonial forms of remembering (i.e. plaques, statues). Archiving the Present asks: who gets to be remembered and what gets to be preserved in settler-colonial Australia? How does memory and embodied archiving occur for sites deemed to have no “heritage significance” by national and state-level heritage organisations? What does it mean to engage in acts of creative remembering that sit outside of heritage regimes? How do we remember within displacement and in the context of ongoing dispossession?

If you would like to attend please email Rashna.Nicholson@warwick.ac.uk
 

Kinship Workshop FREE online nature connection workshop on 23rd February 2025 as part of this year’s FREE LAUNCH EVENT.
Kinship@Home is an online nature connection workshop that focuses on getting to know the nature where we live. Participants meet each other online, before we go outside for solo time to meet our neighbourhoods or local green spaces with audio or text guides for support, and then we return online to share and listen to our collective stories and experiences. This is an inclusive online workshop that can be joined from wherever you are in the world!¡
To join this workshop and other talks as part of Kinship Workshop’s 2025 LAUNCH DAY EVENT, please join our free newsletter which will then give you access to booking your place.
More information and booking here:
https://kinshipworkshop.info/2025/01/19/new-workshop-2025-launch-day-online-event-23-february-2025/
 

Moving Otherwise: Making Change
Weds 12th February 2025, 12.00 - 7.30pm

Join us in the final Dancing Otherwise: Exploring Pluriversal Practices network event to share, intervene in and contribute to our research journey to date. The event is part of the AHRC-funded network that invites members of the public, movement artists, dance researchers and interdisciplinary interlocutors involved in social and environmental justice to engage in conversations, workshops and activities and interrogate collectively how we might foster inclusive, entangled modes of working and dancing together.

We ask: What next? What are the future directions for UK dance research? How might we contribute to the development of a radical model of dance ecology to ensure that equity and critical diversity are encapsulated in the field as it moves forwards?The day’s events will include presentations and workshops by Rosalind Holgate-Smith, Stefan Jovanović, Manuela Albrecht, and A Particular Reality, followed by an evening improvised performance by Seke Chimutengwende and an open forum discussion.

Full schedule can be found on www.dancingotherwise.com