dance it, dance it; artistic approaches to access & inclusive leadership
a programme focus running throughout 2023
ACCESS: Sign Language Interpretation
Research + Projects
ID collaborates with many artists and organisations to co-create projects every year. These aim to offer spaces for radical enquiry, learning and community-building and range across forms; conversations, research initiatives, publications, and small-scale festivals
International Festival of Learning (IFL.2)
3 - 16 December 2022
Vida Vojić / Miranda Tufnell / Cai Tomos / Filipa Pereira-Stubbs / Lucinda Jarrett / Galit Criden / Harold Offeh / Shivaangee Agrawal / Mandeep Raikhy / Building Conversation / Nic Conibere / Rebecca Swift / Denise Rowe / Brian Lobel / Mary Pearson / Michael Gagawala Kaddu / pavleheidler / Carolina van Eps / Elvan Tek / George Maund / Ava Riby-Williams / Aleasha Chaunte / Mira Hirtz / Rosalie Wahlfrid / Teresa Skamletz / Alisa Oleva / Christopher Matthews / Sarah Sigal / Adam Moore / Abby Nocon / Erin Robinsong / Sophie Seita / Florence Uniacke / Flora Wellesley-Wesley / Annie Pui Ling Lok / THE BAND THAT DANCES
Audio Dancing : a project by Gaby Agis
A series of audio scores composed by Gaby Agis + interviews with accompanying guest artists
T: transcripts available
FLOURISH
2020 - ongoing
An intergenerational reciprocal mentoring scheme stemming from discussions around age and influence in dance
Dance, Intimacy and the Civic
2021 - ongoing
A programme of research exploring dance in relationship to the civic realm and the potential for dance to influence social change
Artists Forums
As an artist-led organisation, ID works in continual dialogue, collaboration and exchange with artists and hosts forums on areas of particular current interest or concern.
International Festival of Learning (IFL.1)
A new festival centred on approaches to learning, collaboration and performance
Higher Education Roundtables
2013 - ongoing
ID has produced an HE Roundtable event annually since 2013. This discussion event is for artists working in higher education institutions to discuss pressing issues in HE contexts. The last one explored ways in which we might be unknowingly performing systemic racism in our classrooms, language and sense of history
ID guest edit Theatre Dance and Performance Training Journal
Keen to support the visibility of experimental approaches, TDPT invited ID to guest-edit an issue of the journal on independent dance and movement training.
Keep Listening Keep Talking
A series of talks focused on anti-racism in HE dance contexts, in partnership with Dance HE, C-DaRE and Centre for Performance Philosophy