Round Two Outcomes

Commissions

Round Two - Projects Overview

Connor Elliman: Baggage

Exploring the notion that queer people are often perceived as arriving with trauma or baggage, and the way in which this affects queer bodies entering public spaces.

Project Stage: Complete. See outcomes here.

Together

Showcasing work by emerging and early career dance artists, using new interactive platform technology to enhance audience experience with a hybrid SCRATCH event.

Project Stage: Complete. See outcomes here.

Ludus Dance

Exploring how the development of a digital platform can support the evolution of youth dance in the North West among audiences to whom socioeconomic, geographical and time constraints are barriers.

Project Stage: In Progress

Josh Coates

Commissioning North West dance artists to create new work to share via the online 'etude' platform to reach audiences who can’t access live theatre, with audiences gaining an insight into the creative process.

Project Stage: In Progress

Lucy Nicholson: Moving With

Creation of an intergenerational dance film that inspires communities to connect with their local landscape whilst promoting critical conversations about the relationship we have with our environment.

Project Stage: Complete. See outcomes here.

Swati Dance Company

An exploration of the landscape of South Asian dance in the North to raise the art form’s profile and promote better integration and links within the sector. Includes National Conference on South Asian Dance and ‘Shifting Seasons’ Scratch event.

Project Stage: In Progress

Rosie Watt

Working directly with the community and across the arts and voluntary sectors to discover what the people of Blackpool want from the dance sector. To be followed by a sharing of research findings.

Project Stage: In Progress

To see Outcomes from Round One, please click here

Lucy Nicholson: Moving With

Moving With is a short film by dance artist Lucy Nicholson and film maker Jonny Randall that captures a precious moment in time between mother and son and their local landscape. A celebration of simple things: being together, moving together, listening, and watching all we have on our doorstep.

Moving With offers a contribution to the work being made in Cumbria, for Cumbria by Cumbrian residents. It nurtures a relationship with creative dance amongst young people so that the vital role which creative movement plays in our sense of self, well being, creativity and connection to environment can become apparent to schools and families.

The film, which was selected for the Kendal Mountain Festival and is a winner of the Osprey Short Film Awards at the Kewsick Festival showcases a unique aesthetic and creative practice – an intergenerational, sited improvised work. The film and a short documentary of the sharing of the work will feature here soon. In the meantime, read an interview with Lucy Nicholson and Jonny Randall here.

Round Three of the DCNW Research Programme is now closed

Round Three of the DCNW Research Programme is now closed

Round Three of the DCNW Research Programme is now closed

Round Three of the DCNW Research Programme is now closed

Round Three of the DCNW Research Programme is now closed

Round Three of the DCNW Research Programme is now closed

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