The DCNW Research Programme commissioned 17 projects between 2022 and 2023 to re-imagine the region’s dance by researching, creating and delivering new work in collaboration with creatives and communities. Outcomes from completed projects in Round Three are now being gathered and can be found below.
24 Hope Street Artists Collective: Digital Open Labs
Experimenting with the use of technology when making dance through labs that bring together artists, technologists and critical observers to understand the enhanced potential of dance making when technology is paired with dance from the first stage of creation.
Project Stage: Completed. Outcomes coming soon.
Chad Taylor - Lost Online
Through the development of his piece, Lost Online, questioning what are the negatives and positives for dance given the digital evolution of social media and online trends during and after the Covid lockdowns – and how social media can affect a young person’s mental health. Project Stage: Complete. See outcomes here.
UCLanDance Collective - Shared Dances: Choreographies of Care
How can we best articulate and share movement-based transdisciplinary research in settings across the North West & beyond, and how can we develop a robust network that supports and critiques such work?
Project Stage: In Progress
Mel Brierley and Penny Collinson - Ten Conversations
How can health & wellbeing and dance in the community practitioners more effectively promote, develop and find support for the growth of their practice, research and training?
Project Stage: In Progress
Chad Taylor has been delving into what are the negatives and positives for dance given the digital evolution of social media. Through his piece ‘Lost Online’, which he has been adapting from a digital piece to a live performance piece, Chad has been exploring how young people respond to the online world – and how the digital world can impact on their mental health and their relationships with others.
Read more here as well as watch the process and performance screening.
Dance Consortia North West is delighted to recognise the support of Arts Council England for its programme of research to find new ways of making and sharing dance.
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