What are we losing? by

gilliekleiman — 2023-12-19 13:06:52 UTC

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

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.

gwigro — 2023-12-19 13:07:22 UTC

international standing - already damaged by brexit

Recognition as valid field of academic inquiry.

2023-12-19 13:07:27 UTC

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

lose diversity of offer - each course has distinctive content

suesmith9 — 2023-12-19 13:07:54 UTC

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

2023-12-19 13:07:54 UTC

We are losing

2023-12-19 13:07:56 UTC

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

gilliekleiman — 2023-12-19 13:08:07 UTC

Jobs!

Choice across the country

2023-12-19 13:08:11 UTC

debbiemilnerireland — 2023-12-19 13:08:20 UTC

Integral component of the regional dance infrastructure.

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.

2023-12-19 13:08:23 UTC

somatic intelligence woven into the education, and critical reflective practitioners

tamaraashley — 2023-12-19 13:08:27 UTC

erasure of dance within a broader social and contextual understanding

2023-12-19 13:08:28 UTC

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

2023-12-19 13:08:31 UTC

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

2023-12-19 13:08:32 UTC

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

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Representation of an Art form

gilliekleiman — 2023-12-19 13:08:35 UTC

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

Pipeline of students who become the next leaders

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Hope

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Specificity and Identity of the field of dance

Loss of a community of teachers/artists/practioners

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We are losing...

2023-12-19 13:08:55 UTC

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

The world needs more embodied knowledge, not less!

2023-12-19 13:08:55 UTC

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...

2023-12-19 13:09:03 UTC

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

2023-12-19 13:09:16 UTC

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

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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gilliekleiman — 2023-12-19 13:09:18 UTC

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

Impact on REF contributions

2023-12-19 13:09:27 UTC

A broader sense of education

gwigro — 2023-12-19 13:09:35 UTC

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

The breadth of choice of courses

2023-12-19 13:09:42 UTC

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

2023-12-19 13:09:45 UTC

Legacy...

lisakendall5 — 2023-12-19 13:09:47 UTC

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

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

suesmith9 — 2023-12-19 13:09:56 UTC

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

Decreased representation for marginalised dance forms

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

tamaraashley — 2023-12-19 13:10:28 UTC

we are losing a broad epistemic vision

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

lisakendall5 — 2023-12-19 13:10:37 UTC

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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

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

2023-12-19 13:10:54 UTC

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

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mveitch79_ — 2023-12-19 13:10:59 UTC

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

wider education policy losses and impacts

2023-12-19 13:11:10 UTC

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

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.

2023-12-19 13:11:10 UTC

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

Regional offer

jennahubbard13 — 2023-12-19 13:11:33 UTC

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

debbiemilnerireland — 2023-12-19 13:11:35 UTC

Diversity in choices of study for emerging dance artists.

Decrease in the experimental and the bold.

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.

2023-12-19 13:11:35 UTC

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 sense of belonging

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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

tamaraashley — 2023-12-19 13:11:51 UTC

gilliekleiman — 2023-12-19 13:11:55 UTC

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.

Nigel Stewart, Lancaster University

2023-12-19 13:12:01 UTC

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.

vidamidgelow — 2023-12-19 13:12:03 UTC

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

2023-12-19 13:12:26 UTC

Dance research matters! We cannot lose it.

Art and creative thinking. Thinking out of boxes.

2023-12-19 13:12:32 UTC

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

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

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debbiemilnerireland — 2023-12-19 13:13:19 UTC

The continued devaluing of embodied practice.

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

2023-12-19 13:13:29 UTC

vidamidgelow — 2023-12-19 13:13:30 UTC

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

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

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gilliekleiman — 2023-12-19 13:13:44 UTC

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

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.

2023-12-19 13:14:22 UTC

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.

2023-12-19 13:16:02 UTC

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.

rrimmerpiekarczyk — 2023-12-19 15:52:24 UTC

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

rrimmerpiekarczyk — 2023-12-19 15:57:09 UTC

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.

rrimmerpiekarczyk — 2023-12-19 16:00:07 UTC

2023-12-19 19:59:09 UTC

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!!