Animated Edition - Summer 2024
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Focus on: Dance creates human connections
Welcome to Summer Animated 2024!
This issue contains a collection of featured
articles on climate justice, guest curated by dance
researcher and educator, Dr Ruth Pethybridge.
Five artists with ecological concerns at the heart
of their practice invite us into their individual
worlds with a view to gaining vital understanding
about our role as custodians of our collective one.
This follows on from an inspiring People Dancing
Networks Together event back in April.
Elsewhere, sandwiched between two outstanding
examples of cross-generational practice, are
contrasting community dance voices from the UK
and beyond. Whether personal, practice or project
based all remain passionate about the power of
participatory dance in contexts from the great
outdoors to the future of folk dance to whole life
journeys through the profession.
We wish you happy reading, a wonderful summer
whatever it holds for you and your practice. We
hope to connect with some of you online and in
person during our Summer Intensive across the
month of July and in cyberspace again for our
energising September wellbeing ‘reset’ session.
Chris Stenton
Chief Executive
Louise Katerega
Head of Professional Development
In this issue
Read and download the complete Summer 2024 digital edition of Animated magazine online in a flipbook.
TC Howard, Independent Dance Artist, based in Sheffield, takes us along on her incredible journey with Yorkshire Dance’s inter-generational Company of People and considers how we create courageous and adventurous spaces for artists and communities.
CEO of Reside Dance C.I.C. and Ph.D. Candidate, Jennifer Christine Stokes invites us to question our response to current times in community dance as we accompany her through shifts in geography, career and thinking that led to an expansion and re-definition
of ‘community’ in her practice.
Join Shreya Vadnerkar, dance artist and Associate Director of Nupur Arts on a journey through it’s evolution: from humble beginnings as newcomers to the UK pioneering Bharatanatyam in the city of Leicester, to achieving recognition as an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation (NPO).
Lucy McCrudden, Founder/CEO, Dance Mama reflects on the position of parents in dance from her time in training through to the latest developments of the award-winning non-profit company founded to support dance professionals who are parents through activities, events mentoring and research.
This issue, we have been delighted and grateful to collaborate with dance researcher and educator, Dr Ruth Pethybridge, who brings you this collection of articles by five independent dance and interdsciplinary artists from around the globe, who place care for it at the heart of their practice.
Dance researcher and educator, Dr Ruth Pethybridge is a Trustee of People Dancing, a lecturer in Dance & Choreography at Falmouth University and on the The Place MA Dance: Communities Participation Activism. Here, she opens up the space of this special feature, introducing its themes and authors and invites us into a dynamic reflection on the state of dance, the world and their relationship to each other.
Marília Coelho is a dance artist, choreographer and director based in Brazil who seeks, through dance, to articulate ancestral knowledge with a contemporary approach to life based on decolonisation. This is reflected for us in a journey she takes us on deep into the forest behind her home in Botucatu, São Paulo, where she also co-leads the activist and cultural space Mirante das Artes.
Dancer, dance resercher and visual artist based in the South West of England, Minou Tsambika Polleros, offers the idea of dance as a galvising practice to help us take action in a climate crisis and introduces two global and one local eco-somatic practice networks, the International Forum for Eco-Embodied Arts (IFEEA), the Institute for the Study of Somatic Communication (ISSC) and Movement Network South West (MNSW).
For over twenty years, Simone Kenyon, intra-disciplinary artist, dancer, and Feldenkrais practitioner has developed a practice of expanded choreographies encompassing movement, ecology, cultural geographies and walking arts to create participatory events exploring our relationships with place. Here, she discusses finding ecological and embodied connection through mountain-place-relational performance making exploring our relationships with place.
In this article, culminating with a link to an exclusive access spoken, audio-mediation, Berlin-based interdisciplinary artist, Jared Gradinger, shares his journey into the deeply personal, transformative co-creative partnership with Nature he has been cultivating since 2012.
Improvisational movement artist, Stephanie Gottlob has followed a path begun in North America, exploring movement improvisations with nature, leading to England, where she designed her ecological dance pedagogy. The source of this journey is the co-creative relationship she experiences with landscape, which continues to inspire her current creative pedagogic activism and mission for embodying environmental ethics.
Independent Disabled Dance Artist/Consultant, Steph Sandy is based in the West Midlands region. One of the UK’s first physically disabled dance graduates. Here, she offers us compelling contemplation of the choices, chances and changes which have led to a fresh start mid-career as a community and creative dance professional.
Pagan Hunt Co Artistic Director Pelican Theatre, describes how on the bumpy road of post-graduation, an early career encounter with dance for people living with Parkinson’s led to discovery of people and places, values and commitment that helped establish both their teaching and their artistry.
Angharad Harrop, an independent dance artist from Wales, introduces Wyth (Eight), an joyous initiative to simultaneously preserve Welsh folk dance tradition and innovate with it for the future re-igniting national pride in older generations and new.
Helen Linsell, Artistic Director of dance and social inclusion charity Dance United Yorkshire (DUY), shares her experience delivering an intergenerational dance project with one of Bradford’s most deprived and challenged communities. As Bradford approaches its Year of Culture in 2025, Helen highlights the learning DUY will take into one of its most ambitious and significant years to date.
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