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** Round Three of the DCNW Research Programme is now open - apply today **

** Round Three of the DCNW Research Programme is now open - apply today **

** Round Three of the DCNW Research Programme is now open - apply today **

** Round Three of the DCNW Research Programme is now open - apply today **

** Round Three of the DCNW Research Programme is now open - apply today **

** Round Three of the DCNW Research Programme is now open - apply today **

DCNW Research Programme

Round one Outcomes

The DCNW Research Programme commissioned 14 projects in 2022 to re-imagine the region’s dance by researching, creating and delivering new work in collaboration with creatives and communities. Outcomes from completed projects in Round One are now being gathered and can be found below. Click here for Round Two.

Research Programme Overview

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

round one RESEARCH PROJECT outcomes

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.

Life Class: Dr Sara Giddens

Dr Sara Giddens (Bodies in Flight / UCLan Dance) has been considering what authentic co-creation really means and what it might look like. 


Working in partnership with older social dancers from Nottingham and Preston, Sara has developed bespoke live shows that have brought together professional performers and local non-professional dancers and choirs to be showcased in the participants’ community spaces and also at professional venues.  Read more here.

New Voices: LPM DANCE

LPM Dance has been exploring the impact of creative ownership of the choreographic and music-making process for dancers living with Parkinson’s. Through a series of workshops in Fleetwood and Preston, the project, titled ‘New Voices’, considered how participants could become creators, co-curators and choreographers.  


LPM Dance commissioned this film about the dancers and their journey with the New Voices project and a podcast offering an insight into the artists’ 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.
  

More project outcomes coming soon; please check back again.

More project outcomes coming soon; please check back again.

More project outcomes coming soon; please check back again.

More project outcomes coming soon; please check back again.

More project outcomes coming soon; please check back again.

More project outcomes coming soon; please check back again.

In the meantime, discover the Outcomes from Round Two

Click here

Dance Consortia North West is delighted to recognise the support of Arts Council England for its programme of research to find new ways of making and sharing dance. 

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