Commissions
Round One - Projects Overview
Bluecoat:
Collaborating with a UK dance artist (Priya Mistry) to research a framework for dance residencies which work through reflective time, peer involvement and public engagement.
Project Stage: Complete. See initial outcomes here.
Company Carpi: When You Light A Candle, You Also Cast A Shadow
Investigating how independent companies can evolve and tour work through further development of When You Light A Candle, You Also Cast A Shadow (originally commissioned by DCNW in 2019).
Project Stage: In Progress.
Dr Sara Giddens: Life Class
Exploring the value of social dance through gathering choreographic and spoken evidence from two older adult community groups in Preston and Blackpool during multi-generational research project, Life Class.
Project Stage: Complete. See outcomes here.
Labelled? Dance Theatre
A personal work from this autism-specific integrated dance company for 3 dancers about entanglement and rectification, choreographing conflict resolution for positive social change.
Project Stage: In Progress.
LPM Dance: New Voices
Exploring the impact of creative ownership for dancers living with Parkinson’s involved in a choreographic process with live music and considering how participants can become creators, co-curators and choreographers themselves.
Project Stage: Complete. See outcomes here.
Sole Rebel
Delivering an outreach programme by presenting tap workshops and performances that celebrate rhythm as a universal language in schools, youth centres and organisations in the under-served communities of Liverpool.
Project Stage: Complete. See outcomes here.
UCLan Dance: Movement Matters
Developing and facilitating somatic dance workshops in the community in the first 1001 days of life with a sharing of information and discussions on embodied creative practices within early years,
Project Stage: Evaluation.
To see Outcomes from Round Two, please click here
Bluecoat: Priya Mistry in Residence
A framework for dance artist residencies
In April and July 2022, Priya Mistry (whatsthebigmistry) participated in a pilot residency programme to support the Bluecoat to establish a framework for dance artist residencies for the DCNW Research Programme.
Bluecoat has since shared its learnings of this experience and highlights its continued vision to create a worksite which nurtures artists whilst also enabling audiences to experience, engage with and better understand creative processes. Read more here.
Sole Rebel
Through the Research Programme, Liverpool based Community Interest Company Sole Rebel has been exploring how it can best reach, educate, promote and perpetuate tap dance as a flourishing contemporary art form in the North West. Sole Rebel has been delivering an running an outreach programme, presenting tap workshops and performances celebrating rhythm as a universal language, for schools, youth centres and organisations in the under-served communities of Liverpool.
The project has run alongside its new pilot Training & Performance Company project for recent graduates/emerging artists in the North-West. Discover more here.
