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Dance Studies - if there are no scholars working in dance depts, the UK will lose its capacity to contribute to the academic field

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Specificity of the subject and specialism in embodied practices.

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Specificity of the subject and specialism in embodied practices.

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Innovative, creative, team-player individuals that can work in a huge range of roles - a dance degree does not just equate to performance.

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international standing - already damaged by brexit

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Recognition as valid field of academic inquiry. 

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Recognition as valid field of academic inquiry. 

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Dance research, the ability to collaborate on research and artistically and creatively

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Dance research, the ability to collaborate on research and artistically and creatively

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Decades of developing groundbreaking courses that have trained those working in dance and dance academia today

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Choice - the chance to study the subject that you want to engage with.

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Choice - the chance to study the subject that you want to engage with.

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lose diversity of offer - each course has distinctive content

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lose diversity of offer - each course has distinctive content

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Dancers who will have experimented with other students during their time at university, and then in turn the other student will lose their knowledge of how to work with dancers

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Jobs!

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Integral component of the regional dance infrastructure.

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We programme a series of professional works (5 per year) which is great for both University users, the companies and artists and the community at large.  We always try to make there are works that are contributing to current debates/issues so that we allow art making to open up a space for complex conversations.  

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We programme a series of professional works (5 per year) which is great for both University users, the companies and artists and the community at large.  We always try to make there are works that are contributing to current debates/issues so that we allow art making to open up a space for complex conversations.  

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somatic intelligence woven into the education, and critical reflective practitioners

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somatic intelligence woven into the education, and critical reflective practitioners

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erasure of dance within a broader social and contextual understanding

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erasure of dance within a broader social and contextual understanding

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Universities can provide a platform  to consider  the cultural significance of dance and to support a broader understanding of dance beyond the demands of training linked to the requirements mainstream dance companies 

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Universities can provide a platform  to consider  the cultural significance of dance and to support a broader understanding of dance beyond the demands of training linked to the requirements mainstream dance companies 

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teaching and learning environments that celebrate inclusivity and diversity in dance; spaces where we share practice with local, regional, and national communities; spaces for dance and interdisciplinary research; a whole ecology of nurturing artists who make an impact in different areas of society

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teaching and learning environments that celebrate inclusivity and diversity in dance; spaces where we share practice with local, regional, and national communities; spaces for dance and interdisciplinary research; a whole ecology of nurturing artists who make an impact in different areas of society

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Lack of contributions from UK to international publications and ongoing research projects

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Lack of contributions from UK to international publications and ongoing research projects

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Representation of an Art form

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Specialist facilities that universities have spent a lot of money getting organised

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Pipeline of students who become the next leaders

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Pipeline of students who become the next leaders

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Specificity and Identity of the field of dance

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Loss of a community of teachers/artists/practioners

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Loss of a community of teachers/artists/practioners

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Spaces to offer artists and graduates residency time to make work, and dancers to work with them as part of their education.

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The world needs more embodied knowledge, not less!

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The world needs more embodied knowledge, not less!

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The body being central to so many aspects of life and work. And movement of course. Both being often rather neglected or sen as unruly, dangerous...

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The body being central to so many aspects of life and work. And movement of course. Both being often rather neglected or sen as unruly, dangerous...

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we will be losing the support we offer our local dance artist community 

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we will be losing the support we offer our local dance artist community 

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Progression through from UG, PG, research students into the professional field

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A multi/inter/transdisciplinary academic field and educational opportunity that are innately collaborative

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Dance research in the UK has relied almost exclusively on dance teaching departments. Do we need to find an infrastructure for dance research that includes, but does not overrely on university teaching departments?

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Dance research in the UK has relied almost exclusively on dance teaching departments. Do we need to find an infrastructure for dance research that includes, but does not overrely on university teaching departments?

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Capacity to support and input into lower levels of dance education in the NQF e.g. GCSE, BTEC

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the idea of education being about forming an informed and critical citizen, not just a contributing cog to the economy

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The ability to offer dance classes and other dance-based opportunities to the local community

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The ability to offer dance classes and other dance-based opportunities to the local community

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credibility... bodies of work...communicative possibility... value for/of embodied knowing

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disappearance of dance as a scholarly field and as a valuable set of skills for living. 

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disappearance of dance as a scholarly field and as a valuable set of skills for living. 

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there was a generation who worked so hard to develop respect for dance as a body of knowledge and it feels like this is being lost

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there was a generation who worked so hard to develop respect for dance as a body of knowledge and it feels like this is being lost

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Losing the possibility of it ever returning to HE - very difficult to rebuild what has been removed

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Decreased representation for marginalised dance forms

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Decreased representation for marginalised dance forms

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Recognition of the value of the dance ecology

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Recognition of the value of the dance ecology

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Another way of thinking and experiencing the world, society, politics. 

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Another way of thinking and experiencing the world, society, politics. 

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sector resilience and depth of practice, research, teaching and professional standards

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sector resilience and depth of practice, research, teaching and professional standards

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rich possibilities for students who are being the process of being "taught out"

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rich possibilities for students who are being the process of being "taught out"

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That we find ways to get the message of the importance of body-based dance knowledge to other disciplinary fields - publish widely not only within our field

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embodied enquiry, critical thinking, empathy, somatic intelligence, next generation of versatile dance pioneers 

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embodied enquiry, critical thinking, empathy, somatic intelligence, next generation of versatile dance pioneers 

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The value of dance as a serious life pursuit outside of a performance route. 

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The value of dance as a serious life pursuit outside of a performance route. 

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Dance in academia and particularly the practice research emerging from that - the rich, philosophical knowledge of who we are.

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wider education policy losses and impacts

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wider education policy losses and impacts

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downgrading and loss of Dance - also all arts and humatities - A-levels means loss to both University and Conservetoire entry.

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Dance in its breadth of understanding from the body knowledge of doing across creative and scholarly experience.  The right for students to have choice in life choices.

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Dance in its breadth of understanding from the body knowledge of doing across creative and scholarly experience.  The right for students to have choice in life choices.

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HE offers work to so many professional artists and companies.  The subsidised sector is already struggling.  

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HE offers work to so many professional artists and companies.  The subsidised sector is already struggling.  

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Connections to wider artistic practices - dance makes a massive contribution to interdisciplinary practice

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Fewer places means more concentrated activity in those places that do offer, and therefore excluding others. It's a weird postcode lottery as the advocacy statement noted

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Diversity in choices of study for emerging dance artists.

Decrease in the experimental and the bold.

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Loosing jobs in an area where many women do work/people identifying themselves as female. Meaning that this gender group is disproportionately affected of loosing work.

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Loosing jobs in an area where many women do work/people identifying themselves as female. Meaning that this gender group is disproportionately affected of loosing work.

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A foundation, supporting space and meeting place for dance in a range of modes and forms from practices, performances, intellectual and embodied reflection and research etc

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A foundation, supporting space and meeting place for dance in a range of modes and forms from practices, performances, intellectual and embodied reflection and research etc

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engaged intelligent practice that makes a real difference in communities, dance for health, working in health, well being and social prescribing

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engaged intelligent practice that makes a real difference in communities, dance for health, working in health, well being and social prescribing

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highly localised dance ecologies dependent on interchange of practitioners, including work and facilities but also ideas, practices, board members, staff, advocates, leaders, doers, funding etc.

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To remove a dance degree programme, or else a stream of dance modules within a broader performing arts or theatre programme, is to remove the study of how body consciousness, physical fitness, kinaesthetic and other forms of empathy can be integrated with the study of how social, cultural, and political values are reflected and formed through collective physical experience.  In short, it is to remove the study of what it is to be human.

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The specific contribution that dancing, choreographic practices and embodied knowing affords.

Dance as a cultural practice, as and art form and as an applied practice.

The value of the history and cultural understanding of dance

Dance as a creative form and space

The valuing of multiple ways of knowing

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Dance research matters! We cannot lose it.

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Art and creative thinking. Thinking out of boxes.

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Art and creative thinking. Thinking out of boxes.

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We lose the chance to go further - sense of 'back to square one' in fighting for legitimacy

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We lose the chance to go further - sense of 'back to square one' in fighting for legitimacy

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courses are like ecosystems, they take a long time to evolve and develop - years...then gone in one swift stroke...the work just instantly deleted, and then so ridiculously hard to re-gain

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dance is a subject area that is intrinsically collaborative, inclusive and fulfills wider uni aims

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dance is a subject area that is intrinsically collaborative, inclusive and fulfills wider uni aims

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The continued devaluing of embodied practice.

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Loss of Multi-dimensional representation/s of 'dance'. 

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Loss of Multi-dimensional representation/s of 'dance'. 

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the contribution that dance makes to widening academia and modalities of research.

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education for dancers, choreographers and practitioners in general to articulate their concepts and raise problems / issues

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education for dancers, choreographers and practitioners in general to articulate their concepts and raise problems / issues

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graduates with practical and other skillsets to work in dance, to support the future of dance, to invent the future of dance!

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It's also so important that young people are able to enjoy the 'now' of the things they are most passionate about.  Not always seeing education as a quick 'means to an end' but rather being able to trust that if they follow their passions it will lead them in the right direction.

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It's also so important that young people are able to enjoy the 'now' of the things they are most passionate about.  Not always seeing education as a quick 'means to an end' but rather being able to trust that if they follow their passions it will lead them in the right direction.

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Dance has come a long way in it's aim to become inclusive, equitable and diverse. These qualities are in dire need within our societal systems, something that is not valued within our current government. 

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Dance has come a long way in it's aim to become inclusive, equitable and diverse. These qualities are in dire need within our societal systems, something that is not valued within our current government. 

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An inclusive education system in which individuals from deprived areas and lower income backgrounds can have equal opportunities to study dance at higher education level. The narrowing of dance provision creates a culture of exclusivity. 

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An inclusive education system in which individuals from deprived areas and lower income backgrounds can have equal opportunities to study dance at higher education level. The narrowing of dance provision creates a culture of exclusivity. 

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Quality dance facilitation in other sectors - eg. in early years, primary or secondary education, community settings and private settings. 

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Quality dance facilitation in other sectors - eg. in early years, primary or secondary education, community settings and private settings. 

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The chance to take creative risks, be innovative and experimental. To take an embodied approach to learning about self, others and the world. Dance is being reduced to entertainment only. 

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The chance to take creative risks, be innovative and experimental. To take an embodied approach to learning about self, others and the world. Dance is being reduced to entertainment only. 

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Why are so many people registering as anonymous?

We all care so much about our discipline of Dance Studies, and have fought so hard for our subject for 40 years. Speak out!!