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About the Library
Independent Dance’s digital library houses an extensive range of research material to read, watch and listen to. This material is from the past 19 years of our 40+ year history and is drawn from work ID has programmed, or with which ID has a direct connection.
By re-releasing this archive and creating this new digital space as a home for documentation of our programme and research, ID aims to create a non-academic, dance research resource which is freely available to all.
This material was available on ID’s former website and is re-released here with minimal edits, noting the original dates. Our aim has been to increase accessibility and to organise the collection to be more easily searchable. We have added introductions offering short summaries of each piece and have included contributors’ biographies from the time at which the material was recorded. It is important to say that views expressed are also of their time and may have subsequently changed or developed; this is an archival library and in this sense will reflect the period in which the material was created.
As we move forward, new material will be added, including audio and video recordings of talks, and occasional written material, from ID’s programme. Our hope for the future is that this archive will further thinking and discussion and be a springboard for new research.
In the Library you will find content to Read, Watch and Listen to. You can browse by tags like ‘eco-somatic’ or ‘choreographic thinking,’ or search by year, artist name, or other keywords.
You can also browse short curated series like Being With: towards the ecological body.
Library Team:
Heni Hale + Nikki Tomlinson: overall direction
Heni Hale: curator of Being With: towards the ecological body collection
Julia Pond: editorial lead
Renée Bellamy + Jay Yule: content editors
Renée Bellamy: voiceover
Alison Thomas: project assistance
The first phase of ID’s Library project is supported through public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
If you enjoy the content and find it useful, please consider making a donation to ID to help us to continue developing the library.
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A collection of talks from our digital library, co-curated by Renée Bellamy and Jay Yule.
This collection features speakers Jo Bannon, Maddy Costa, Marina Collard, Nicola Conibere, 'Funmi Adewole Elliott, Heni Hale and Anna Pakes, all of whom offer new perspectives on the otherwise familiar
A curated collection of talks by dance artists, academic researchers and social scientists delving into questions of ethics and power
This curated collection of Library material centers ideas and practices which explore relationships between movement and ecology, ranging from talks by sociologists and scientists to conversations between artists and a recorded solo performance.
The What Festival 2013 was curated around the theme Dancing in Context. This short series of Skype conversations formed part of the programming, and featured conversations which play between movement and speaking, using image, object and bodies to communicate, with artists from the UK and abroad.
Choreographer, performer and visual artist Christopher Matthews discusses his new work Act 3 with choreographer and academic Nicola Conibere.
