Module Three Session(s) this week

Aware that not all of you have been able to attend the Module Three sessions live this term, and mindful that this session is where we will discuss ideas for practice-based artefacts and talk about the relationships between the different modes of work you will submit for assessment in May, I wanted to offer this session repeated across two different time/dates this week. 

Tuesday March 28th, 1730-1830 (BST) slightly later than scheduled

Plus 

Friday March 31st, 10.30-11.30 (BST)

Please indicate in the comments below which session you plan to attend live.

Please note that times in the UK switched to British Summer Time at the weekend so we are now GMT +1hr

Academic Writing session

 A reminder that we have our re-scheduled Academic Writing session this week with Peter Thomas

Thursday March 9th, 0900-1000 (GMT)

The session is aimed as a refresher on academic writing skills, tips, approaches for reading and writing in academic study.

 

The session will be recorded 

Theories and Frameworks - Sunday Discussion group focus

 Tomorrow Sunday March 5, 1900 

we have our next Sunday Discussion Group of this term. 

The zoom room for this meeting (same link as all sessions) will be open for you to enter 20mins before the start time of the session, please do take this time to arrive, check your connection, connect with each other informally, get tea/coffee and generally settle into your space.

As noted on your schedules, the focus of the discussion is 'Theories and Frameworks' 

As always, with these Sunday sessions, this is a space for you to learn in dialogue with others, to share ideas, thinking, processing, without the need to have definitively formed answers. 

In preparation for this conversation, please do give some thought to how you are experiencing theories and frameworks in your practice and study at this moment. 

Some questions to guide your pre-session thinking:

What established frameworks in arts based research as you becoming aware of?

What frameworks are emerging through your practice?

What are some of the theories you are engaging with in developing deeper understanding of your practice through research?

How do theories and frameworks work in a transactional relationship of developing  knowledge?

Please do add further thoughts and questions for consideration in the comments below.

Students must enrol for each term of study

 An urgent reminder - you must enrol for each term of study in order to be eligible for assessment at the end of the module and to generate the correct fees invoices etc.. 

If you have not done so this term PLEASE ENROL NOW!!

Module two - you are enrolling for DAN4630

Module three - you are enrolling for DAN4760

Any problems, please do let me know!!

Sunday Open Discussion Group

Our first Sunday discussion group of this term offered space for conversation around the concepts of Knowledge, Learning and Information. Observations were shared from those that were a part of the discussion, and a feeling of the concept of Change emerged.

We talked about transformation; of information into embodied knowledge, about 'technique', or 'Technique', what this is, or what is can be (mis)understood to be, about fear, language, assumptions, expectations, integrity as part of our learning, and of knowledge as something in-process, always growing, keeping, broadening and through it allowing ourselves to be open to the possibility of change. 

Sharing with you an excerpt from my own work, commenting of the concept of change in relation to relationships between somatic practice and improvised performance...

'Change illuminates the in-between-ness as a mobile place of form and fluidity through critical enquiry. For Irmgard Bartenieff, change is pivotal to working with Fundamentals and key to unlocking the full potential of the integrated body. ‘Change is fundamental. The essence of movement is change. As we move, we are constantly changing’ (Hackney, 2002: 12). The need to respond to change, feels strikingly present in our current global climate, as does a sense of community. Being responsive to the continual ebb and flow of our environments encourages one to remain present in movement that is meaningful through shared experiences with others. Bartenieff herself speaks of movement as a fluid phenomenon, likened to the ebb and flow of water. Change in the context of this research has emerged which is not simply an action or effect that is temporal but an event which is transactional and has the potential to be transformational through multiple encounters. Change is revealed in a becoming aware of, and allowing space for multiple possibilities through improvisation. The new methods developed through exploration of somatic practices actively embrace the phenomenon of change. The concept of hovering (discussed in chapter III) places the body, bodies, and environment in a state of flow where change is invited. When the body is experienced as becoming of, and as its environment, it is within a process of change. Theorizing my approach to somatic practice and improvisation through this thematic concept (re)opens form and offers further consideration of the language of practice'. 

Kindred, H. 2021, PhD thesis, dancing the in-between-ness: (re)articulating Bartenieff Fundamentals through improvised dance performance-making, pg.120)

Do share your thoughts, comments, readings around anything that emerged for you from this discussion group

Re-scheduled Academic Writing Session

  

The session on Academic Writing for this term has been re-scheduled to 

Thursday March 9, 0900 (UK)

The slides and a recording from last term's session are still available on Unihub in the meantime, and you can always book your own tutorials with the Academic Writing team and/or attend their drop -in sessions at any time!

A note for Module Two students

 From Astrid's Ethics session

Thanks for the amazing discussions and pertinent points raised in our lecture. 

Please do not panic about having everything ready for next week. 

We will look through the MORE form and what documents need to be supplied with it. We do not complete it next week – unless you wish to start already. 

At the moment, start jotting down ideas for your research project and think what general line you might wish to take. Think about which form of data collection is the best way to answer your research question. If you want to interview, then you can start to outline questions. 

 

As said, the submission is not set in stone. We know research changes and that as you continue exploring thoughts the topic and some questions will evolve. The MORE form is for us to see which direction you go and what you intend to do with your participants. 

Please have a conversation with your supervisor about your ideas.