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
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
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
A new festival centred on approaches to learning, collaboration and performance
Higher Education Roundtables
2013 - ongoing
ID’s most recent HE Roundtable (2020), titled Recognising Institutional Racism in our Classroom, focused on how we can come together to recognise 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