Finalist Presentations Tues Dec 18, Wed Dec 19...

FInalist Presentations...Tues Dec 18th and Wednesday Dec 19th

We have our Module Three MAPP finalists sharing their research inquiry journeys this week. It would be great if you can join us at all (via Skype) to be a part of their day and support each other.

I will set up a Skype Group Chat for the sessions Tues AM/PM and Wednesday AM Please comment below to say which day you would like to join (or both) and I will make the groups.

The schedules for the presentations are below, you are free of course to leave the call when you need to (we appreciate you may have other committments during the days).

Schedule of the day: Tuesday December 18^th 

Session One:

10.30-11.00 Garry Clarke (S) – Oral Presentation / Professional Artefact

11.00-11.30 Rebecca Sloan-Kirton  - Oral Presentation / Professional Artefact

11.30-12.00  Elissavet Lintzerakou– Oral Presentation / Professional Artefact

Session Two:

14.00-14.30 – George Kirkham – Oral Presentation / Professional Artefact

14.30-15.00 – Brandon Sears (S) – Oral Presentation / Professional Artefact

15.00-15.30 – Jane Syder – Oral Presentation / Professional Artefact

15.30-16.00 – Hannah Jackson (S)– Oral Presentation / Professional Artefact

Schedule of the day: Wednesday December 19^th 

Session One:

10.00-10.30 Laura Dudman– Oral Presentation / Professional Artefact

10.30-11.00 Chelsie Innes– Oral Presentation / Professional Artefact

11.00-11.30 Joe Kenneday (S) – Oral Presentation / Professional Artefact

11.30-12.00 Katherine Bates(S) - Oral Presentation / Professional Artefact

12.00-12.30 Sunita Bolton– Oral Presentation / Professional Artefact

12.30-13.00 Emma Coutler - – Oral Presentation / Professional Artefact

Communication of ideas...

We had a good conversation at our 2nd Sunday discussion group. Centred around the notion of communicating ideas we had people across the three modules talking around language, connections, sharing and ways in which different contexts influence how we communicate our ideas.

A question that arose was around articulating what we mean by by 'academic language' and the broader need to unpick terms and assumptions.

We considered the 'i' in research...where you are within your practice, your research, your writing. 

The balance in considering who you are, what you value, what embodied knowledges shape your ideas and those you are communicating to and the forms that might take.

Please do add in the comments here further thoughts on this and links to your own blogs to continue to communicate and share our ideas.

A note on Drafts...

Drafts of work are in which is great! 

Drafts are intended to initiate a feedback dialogue (in person, skype, via email) with your supervisor, they are not usefully used to ask if things are 'right' or sent with an expectation of receiving corrections, by way of a pre-marking opportunity.

Please do receive feedback as an extended discussion of your work. 

Often feedback contains prompts for further reading, suggested texts/practitioners to look at, comments regarding the level of critical thinking/analysis in your writing over overly descriptive personal narrative approaches etc.. Feedback comments are not telling you to 'correct' something and re-submit, but more trying to help you to move your thinking and writing on as we see the process of your work developmentally.

With this in mind, when you have received feedback on a draft of work, please take time to read and consider comments made, come back to your supervisor asking to extend the conversation, arrange a skype is you have further thoughts and questions as a result of the feedback, but please try not to send a 2nd draft asking if the work is now correct.

At MA level we put our trust in you as professional people and see our role as supervisors as guding you, being a critical friend, promting, pushing your thoughts, challenging sometimes in order for you to develop further. We are not testing you getting things 'right' we are interested in your engagement and curiosity about your own work.

Making Connections...

In the 2nd of our discussion groups today we had some great conversations around notions of creativity, advocacy and leadership, social, economic and cultural implications of dance and dance training. Connections were made between themes of interest, across cultures and communities of practice, between theory and practice and through utilizing the comments thread on skype to share resources as we spoke. I heard a strong sense of community in the sharing of practices and noticed the different perspectives we all experience and how we are able to nurture a community of learning through revealing these connections.

Those that were a part of this disucssion please do add links to your blogs below in the comments!!



I thought I'd share as a reflection on the conversations on creativity in our teaching and learning some notes from my own early PhD research around the relationships between environments, creativity and rigor in dance improvisation...

Creativity is not a new concept and creative exploration is not necessarily about seeking or finding ‘newness’; it is about approaches to learning and living.  Creativity is about allowing, offering, inviting a clearing of mind/body/space through which to think/move/feel a little more freely, intuitively perhaps. Whilst not suggesting that creativity is exclusive only to dance and dancers, or indeed the arts, this is where my practice and understanding is formed.  For dancers to engage in a process of exploration (to be creative) is not uncommon, and yet the facilitation of environments conducive with, and the level of engagement and understanding from this engagement can vary considerably and should therefore not be taken as a given facet of dance. To be open to acknowledging and accepting alternatives through the challenging of existing assumptions is pivotal to my practice-as-research.  To be spontaneous whilst re-visiting, re-ordering, re-learning I believe is at the heart of creative exploration in the arts.

 An area I feel is problematic within dance improvisation as a practice of creative learning is its apparent lack of pedagogical structure and rigour, making it a little ambiguous as an educational experience when sitting alongside a curriculum of codified dance techniques with (through documentation at least) longer more hierarchic heritage.  There is an assumption following this line, that improvisation in dance is instinctively creative, as it is apparently without boundaries, open and free.  Context is critical here as we begin to unpeel the layers of the arts in society through to dance as an art, through to particular nuances within the dance experience.  In the context of mainstream Western society, the arts are generally perceived of as free, open, accepting, experimental and creative.  Dance as the most explicitly physical, sensory practice in the arts, attracts the same breadth of description in the context of the other arts.  Within dance, contemporary (modern, post modern) is generally regarded to be more 'creative' than classical ballet, and improvisation, with its perceived lack of form as 'the' creative dance.   

I wonder what your thoughts are around assumptions held with regard to technique, form, structure and pedagogical value in dance?

 

Ethics...

Those of you in Module Two you'll be starting to look at the ethical considerations of your research proposals and note that there are some ethical procedures for you to undertake as part of submitting your proposal at the end of this term.

We are using the MORE (Middlesex Online Research Ethics) programme - there is a link to this on your MAPP programme page. It would be good to take a look at this and begin to familiarise yourself with it. The Ethics application needs to be completed online for your Supervisor to review by November 23rd (this is when you will also send a draft of your inquiry proposal).

We will be running a skype session with you overviewing the whole Ethics process on SUNDAY NOV 4, 9PM (immediately after our group skype discussion group that evening) and a follow-up session to look at the MORE site and process in more detail on WEDNESDAY NOV 14, 8PM.

Please comment on Adesola's blog to 'sign-up' for these sessions...



 

Week 4...

As we start the fourth week of term there are a few check-in / reminders for you...

Module Ones - you should be formulating a list of your Area of Learning titles (AOLs) which will be the areas of your learning that you write short reflective essays on to make up your RPL claim (Recognised Prior Learning). This is a sustantial part of the first term of study and important to get moving on it now. We ask that you send your list of AOL titles to your Supervisor this week so that we can talk through these with you. We suggest that you then draft the first AOL, send this for feedback by November 5th (as indicated on your MAPP schedule). From the feedback discussion with your supervisor on the first AOL you can then move on and write the others. Be mindful of the connections you are making in your learning as you construct these AOLs, refer to the learning theories, ways of thinking that Module One is introducing you to and use these to understand the process of Reflection you are applying in order to look back and evaluate past learning experiences.

Module Twos - Reading. Mapping the field of your proposed area of research and getting into what it is to PLAN a research inquiry. Remember in this module your are PROPOSING an area of research for inquiry and seeking the University to approve this before undertaking it (in Module Three). Look at what a proposal needs. How can someone external to you be assured that your research inquriy has been considered ethically, has relevance to your field of professional practice and demonstrates an awareness of others already talking, doing, writing in this field? How do you PLAN a practice-based project?

Module Threes - Out in the field, gathering your data. What are you noticing? How are things taking shape, or throwing you off track? Are new doors opening that you may not have anticipated? Be open to the process of your research and journey through it keeping a sense of curiosity and wonder about the area you have chosen to explore rather than being on a mission to find answers to your questions. Share your process through your blogs, share what you are noticing...

We look forward to hearing your thoughts from all modules through your blogs!



Week 4 is also the time administratively when things need to be in place. You MUST now be enrolled for the correct module DAN4510 - Module One / DAN4630 - Module Two / DAN4760 - Module Three. Any problems here PLEASE contact our Admissions team immediately and let your Supervisor know.

Knowing and Learning - Sunday discussions...

This month's Sunday Discussion groups focused on the notions of Knowing and Learning. Discussions in the first group covered how we feel we (as dance teachers) prepare and respond to our student's needs for knowledge, how we facilitate learning and how we observe learning as developmental over time as we see student's progression. There was some discussion around how influenced we are in our learning from the teaching we experienced as students, but some gaps here perhaps between the experiences of us as learners and how we are positioning our students learning? Adesola is talking more about this through her blog from today.

The thoughts around learning as a process and knowing as fluid interested me most here.
How might we see knowing as transformational?
How might we use reflection in learning?

 What do you think?



The second discussion group veered more towards teaching/learning and assessment and the relationships between these in different contexts, different parts of the world. Something that struck me in these conversations was the sense of wanting to nurture and help students grow and develop autonomy in their learning through their dancing, while (as teachers) feeling the external pressures of the systems of the school, government, and a general lack of agency these may put on that learning. I wonder how we - as artists (teacher, learners, people) respond to this. I wonder how we might foster 'bettter', more creative relationships between the inner rhythms, our inner dance and the environment that shapes that. What might that look and feel like if we were to bring these conversations around teaching, learning and assesment back to the body and pause to listen...

Love to hear your thoughts and continue the conversations through your own blogs...

New Beginnings...

As we all get settled into the first week of term; finding your space for study is really important. Figuring out when and where the MA is part of your life to that your practice and your study becoming intertwined.This is essential in a programme which is about your Professional Practice. As you move through the first couple of weeks, reading through module handbooks, beginning to dig into something from the reading list and becoming more conscious perhaps of your own practice as a 'thing', it is important to remind yourself to take the time to listen to your own rhythms, observe your own patterns and be aware of your own learning processes. 

The MA programmes are centred around you and your professional practice and aims through guiding and deepening your reflective practice to develop you as practitioners in your fields and within the field of dance pedagogy. 

Module Ones, the next 12 weeks of this module term are all about reflecting on your learning through practice to date. So, locating yourself where you are today through mapping a landscape of your past learning experiences. We recognise that you come to the programme with vast and varied bodies of experience and we are coming from the position of experience = knowledge, but there needs to be a process in the space between (reflection) which makes meaningful the learning from experience. The module handbook gives you dates and deadlines, what needs to be submitted and when, and talks you through observing and engaging in reflection on your practice in order that you will be in a place to first identify and then to articulate in writing what you consider to be your Areas of Learning (this will form part of your RPL – Recognised Prior Learning claim). The handbook offers you the skeleton of the module, your engagement with the learning community, literature, your openness to engage in the process of learning through reflection offers you the flesh you'll need to complete the module. 

Module Twos and Three's, different journeys for you but still needing space to breath in order to move. Module Two - a lot to cover, try to look at all the elements starting by referring back to the AOLs you submitted for the previous module as a reminder of key areas of your practice, identify the area of your research rather than search for the 'perfect question' at this stage. Reading around your area of interest and being within your practice with those thoughts will help your questioning develop.

Module Three's start also by reading back over your research proposals. You're now setting off on doing what you planned in the last module! You've created your map, it may / should shift and take alternative routes as you progress along it, learning from doing, being open to change and being responsive to it along the way.

Get in touch with your Supervisors to arrange one-to-one's as your formualte your ideas and have things to talk through..get posting on your own blogs and commenting on others!!

New term...

Great to meet those of you new to the MAPP programmes as well as say HI to those returning to study at the Welcome/Welcome back skypes over the weekend.

There was a lot of information to go through, I hope you're having a chance to digest this over this coming first week of our term. 

Do take the time to browse through your Programme Pages, MAPP DTP, MAPP Dance and MAPP SS, download the relevant Module Handbooks for your term of study and begin reading through, making notes, highlighting things through them. Do read through the Programme Handbooks also - ALL students, this will have changed for this academic year so even if you are returning to Modules two or three, so take some time to read through this as well.

Begin to gather everything you need for your study this term, and start to find or re-find your rhythm with work-study-life. 

Module two/threes - Complete your response to module feedback forms and end to your supervisors this week.
Module ones - have a look at the study plans your supervisor has sent you and make a first tutorial to check-in!

Remember new students to make the most of being a student...apply for your NUS or ISIC cards to access student discounts on a range of activities and events. 

Register your details with KORTEXT to receive your free text book for the module!

https://www.kortext.com/?_b=b&utm_expid=.4r4w_ldSQOOp0xot48NLJw.1&utm_referrer=



Looking forward to a great term ahead with you all and to our next skype discussion group on Sunday Sept 30th!
 

Results and New term...

Hi, hoping everyone has enjoyed some kind of break since the end of our last term of MAPP.

Your grades from your last module are now published on your MyUniHub page and you will have received your feedback from your advisors. Do take some time to process this and respond to it in your Feedback Discussion form at the start of the next module/term.

Finalists - you will have recieved your grade and feedback also, your finalist degree classification (Distinction / Merit / Pass) will be published in September and this is also when your formal degree certificate will be mailed to you from our Graduation Office.

Our new term begins on September 17th. You will be able to access materials, handbooks etc for the module you are moving into from Sept 1st via our MAPP UniHub Programme Pages.

On Friday September 14th and Sunday September 16th we have welcome / welcome back Skype sessions. Anybody is welcome 

 

These will be at:

Friday September 14th 5pm (time in London)

or

Sunday September 16th 2pm (time in London)

Comment on Adesola's blog  to indicate which one you will attend and share any thoughts, tips reflections on starting back / starting the MAPP term.

 

Looking forward to the term ahead!

Finalist Presentations...

You are all invited to attend and support those in Module Three as they share the journey of their inquiry process with us...

MA Professional Practice, Dance Technique Pedagogy

Finalist Presentations

Tuesday May 29^th and Wednesday May 30^th 2018

Ritterman Dance Studio

Middlesex University London

Tuesday May 29th:

10.00-10.30 Lizzy Rowden - Oral Presentation / Professional Artefact

10.30-11.00 Sam Pickering - Oral Presentation / Professional Artefact

11.00-11.30 Davis Hobdy  - Oral Presentation / Professional Artefact

--------  Break --------

13.30-14.00 –. Imogen Butler - Oral Presentation / Professional Artefact

Wednesday May 30th:

12.00-12.30 – Anna Helsby - Oral Presentation / Professional Artefact

12.30-13.00 – Raymond Chai - Oral Presentation / Professional Artefact

13.00-13.30 - Emma Millward - Oral Presentation / Professional Artefact

ALl the best to those presenting, looking forward to hearing about your research processes!

Fellow MAPPs - You are welcome to attend in person or via skype - please let us know of your attendance (via email) by MONDAY MAY 28th

A note...

Lots of questions flooding in now so a general note on submitting work for assessments:

Deadline for submission for all work across all modules this term is MONDAY MAY 21st 2018

All work is submitted via the turnitin submission box 
this is on your MAPP DTP or MAPP Dance Programme page on UniHub

Work must be submitted as ONE WORD DOCUMENT (this includes your cover page, main essay, any appendices and bibliography).

Under the title - May 21st Submissions you will find a turnitin icon for each module and one for the RPL claims, please submit to the correct module for the work you are turning in.

There are a number of forms required to be submitted as part of Module Two. These should be submitted as an appendix to the Inquiry Proposal and still uploaded as one word document.

All forms can be found under 'Forms and Temnplates' on your MAPP DTP or MAPP Dance Programme page on UniHub.

Module Ones you should submit your RPL claim form (sent to you via email by your advisor) with your corresponding AOL essays.

Specific questions if you have them concerning the content of your work are fine, please do not send further drafts for feedback now - the deadline for final submission is less than a week away!

Finalist Presentations are on Tues May 29th and Wed May 30th at our Hendon Campus in London, or you may skype in to attend, please do support those presenting their research inquiries for Module Three. I will post a full schedule soon!

Keep breathing...Keep going...

Drafts and Feedback...

We are working through reading your drafts and offering feedback on them... the feedback is just that - an offering, some thoughts, suggestions, further considerations, questions to encourage you to move on, delve deeper, gain more clarity in the communication of your ideas. 

It is important to recognise that these are not 'corrections'. We are not telling you what is 'wrong' in order for you to correct it and make it 'right'. We are offering professional advice from experience, a critical eye/ear, an alternative and additional perspective to your work. We are not telling you how to do it, or when it is 'right'.

The process of developing your work, (all modules here, your profession, life...) is just that 
'a process'. 

Something to be re-visited (a draft is not a finished piece of work), re-considered, re-thought along the way in order that it might grow and develop with you. Most creative projects are not linear in their development, most are not 'done' on first draft, first sharing, but they take that sharing to invite others views which may offer something more to your own thinking and perspective. 

Share, think further, re-draft, keep questioning, editing ...it's all part of the process and only you will know when it says what it needs to say.

Knowing in your bones...

Just a reference to share, I know some of you I have flagged the work of Guy Claxton to in a one-to-one, but as I read through drafts of your work now, particularly those on Module One, it strikes me that this text is relevant again.

Terry Atkinson and Guy Claxton, (2000). The intuitive practitioner: On the value of not always knowing what one is doing, Taylor and Francis Publishers

What we often take for granted as 'just knowing', 'just doing', centres around the out intuition as practitioners.  There are educational theories of Intuitive Practice and the role of intuition in teaching that you might find interesting and that can offer greater context to your 'gut feelings'.

Let me know what you think..

Summer Lab.

We are holding our annual Summer Intensive for the 4th year this August...It offers a great transition between modules, and a chance to come together and move, share, discuss and write as a group on our London campus.  Accomodation is offered on campus for around £20 per night, so a great way to spend a week in London, fueling yourself artistically, creatively, academically. The campus facilities, access to the library, studios etc are fully open and available to you for this week as well as the sessions we run daily from 9.30am to around 3pm. Last year we also took a trip to the British Library and the Tate Modern... there's plenty of inspiration around!

The week runs Aug 13-17th, 2018 
Cost (for students) £250

For more information and Booking:
https://www.mdx.ac.uk/courses/cpd/dance-writing-professional-practice-summer-intensive
 

 

Check-in...

As we move through March now just a reminder of the guidelines we've offered to help you organise your time-study for the MAPP programmes.

Module Ones - you should have now sent / be sending this week please your first Area of Learning essay for your RPL portfolio claim, along with a list outlining the titles of and draft plans for your other claims. Do contact your advisor if you have questions around any of this. Don't struggle along - a yell for help is fine!

Module Twos and Threes, we're expecting drafts of work from you later in April, after the spring break. Again, contact us if you've questions, you're wanting to talk through ideas... We're here to be your 'critical friend' through these modules and happy to hear your processes in order that we may move you on by asking questions and probing your thinking along the way.

2nd skype discussion March 4th...

Our 2nd discussion group today had many voices, mostly sharing themes around reflection, reading, revealing 'gaps' in the literature and how we might relate to the development of our professional practice.

We talked about the idea of adding the 'the field' of your practice, of your research and of ways in which to structure the literature in order to make meaningful what you read to what you know and what you don't know but are seeking through the literature.

There were examples from peoples specific teaching practice shared, research inquiry ideas and process shared and generally a feeling of working together, listening and sharing in order to learn. There was an acceptance of feeling lost (multiple times) along the MA journey and of hitting points of 'crisis' when different perspectives to those you held as 'true' are perhaps knocked by something you read and engage with now through your MAPP learning - GREAT!! Remember life, practice, research is not a linear path from A to B... enjoy the wiggles and bumps along the way, they let you know you are alive and learning!!

Those who were part of this discussion will continue these conversations through their blogs, do check them out and comment, so that the blogs reach their potential of being interactive conversations.

Davis Hobdy
Jo Roots
Brandon Sears
Kirsty Searle
Hannah Jackson
Julie Williamson
Garry Clarke
Katherine Bates
Jane Syder
Anthea Garratt
Michael Joseph
Elissavet Linkzerakou

Please comment with the link to your blog on this conversation below...

The body as evidence...

A good first discussion today with Agata, Davis, Raymond and Rebecca.

We talked across all three modules about common themes of the body, approaches to learning and teaching technique, about structure and freedom and about the importance of multiple perspectives.

Davis reported back as Student Rep to the group from the recent Student Voice Group meeting help at the university this week and updated all on the move of the MAPP programmes from the school of Work-based learning to the school of Arts and Creative Industries and the shift in focus this allows now from work-place to practice-based. About the positive changes to handbooks in terms of language and clarity and the administrative and resource support available in the university beyond your advisors. He will blog about this and, from today's conversatiosn, about the use of breath and breathing in teaching and learning in order for us not to become or remain static in our dancing, in our lives.http://kensdancer.blogspot.co.uk/

Agata will share more from this conversation with a focus on how we perceive our own body as central to how we approach 'the body' in dance training through multiple techniques.
http://krabumbel.blogspot.co.uk/2018/02/dialogue.html 

Raymond will talk further about the notion of Intuition in our teaching - 'why do we do the things we do they way we do?' and about recognising the limitations of putting our teaching and our students 'in boxes'.
raymond-chai.blogspot.co.uk/ 

Rebecca will blog about seeing research as a framework for deepened/extended learning and starting to look within rather than outside us for inspiration and knowledge.
http://rebeccas-k.blogspot.co.uk/

This looking within, reminded me of a workshop I observed with Shobhana Jeyasingh and our BA choreography students at the university this week. She spoke in reference to her own work about seeing 'the body as evidence'. Looking at what stories it has to tell and how you tell them. How do you reveal the knowing of your body. How does that shape and structure your dancing?

Let me know your thoughts...

Multiple narratives, multiple perspectives...

It has been interesting being involved in several discussions this week about how we see things, how are perceptions are shaped and how they can easily, and often unwittingly, slip into telling a story, offering a narrative as if it were a singular truth.

There are multiple ways of seeing things, interpreting a piece of choreography, reading an article, receiving some feedback and I think it is important as you enter your modules 

- reflecting on your own practice - Module One
- reviewing the voices of others in your field through the literature - Module Two
- constructing research questions and thinking about your approach to analysis - Module Three

to raise the issue of 'a single story'...



This TED talk has been shared and shared again...well worth listening/watching.

Love to hear your thoughts...

Moving through ...

As we all get moving through the early weeks of the term, we wanted to flag up some support systems available through the university for your learning.

http://libguides.mdx.ac.uk/c.php?g=322117&p=2156545

http://libguides.mdx.ac.uk/c.php?g=322117&p=2154674

http://libguides.mdx.ac.uk/distancelearners/welcome

 

These are administrated through our librarian Michelle Newman, who is happy to be contacted should you have specific questions in your search for literature, questions around accessing texts online etc.. <m.newman@mdx.ac.uk>

 

We have our monthly Sunday skype discussion groups this weekend too...please make sure you comment on Adesola's blog to indicate which conversation you will be a part of. We make the call from this list, so please do comment or we may miss you!

Look forward to more conversations then!!

Helen

New Term...

Welcome to the start of the new term for the MAPP programmes, great to have new and returning students on MAPP DTP and also new students on the MAPP Dance (Specialism) programme too this term!

There were some interesting starts to our conversations via the two skype sessions on Friday and Saturdaywith some strong themes coming through around time/reflection, vulnerability/being brave and knowing and not knowing.

I believe we have a rich and vibrant community of practitioners on the MAPP programmes and it is the wealth of experiences you all bring to the programme through these discussions that make the programme and your journey on the MA both challenging and exciting.  Acknowledge the nerves at starting something new (the whole programme, the next module, Monday morning!) and embrace the confidence in the knowledge you bring to the programme and to this next phase of your learning. Do remember that the programmes are rooted in your Professional Practice, so while 'academia' and the university systems may be new and unfamiliar, your practice is not. Making these connections is fundamental to the programmes and your development as practitioners, artist-scholars as a result.

Be fiercely brave!!


If you're able to be in London on Feb 24th, jump straight in and join us for a day of artists sharing practice at the Narrating the Somatic Symposium - details and booking link below!

https://mailchi.mp/b959eb62f05e/narrating-the-somatic-symposium-workshops-performance-and-papers-2658705?e=896d46dbef

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Saturday February 24th  Key Note Speakers: Rosemary Lee and Richard Walsh Key Note Movement Workshop: Jackie Guy Workshops, performance, film and discussion with... Namron, Sandra Golding, Pawlet Brooks, Louise Kateraga, Mary Grigg, Chikukwango Cuxima-Zwa, Akosua Boakye, Dominique Rivoal, Jacqueline McCormick, Tom Hobden, Anton Califano, Adesola Akinleye, Helen Kindred, Stephanie Scheubeck, Eline Kieft, Nina Atkinson & Vivian Barbosa. and ISTD Open Day also the launch celebration of the new book edited Narratives in Black British Dance: embodied practices. Where: Middlesex University, London Hendon, Grove Theatre When: 9:00 for 9:30 start to 6pm Feb 24th 2018 Tickets for the day: £5 (students), £10 (individual), £20 (institution) Book on-line here This Symposium follows on from August 2016 event Watch video  Questions: a.akinleye@mdx.ac.uk & h.kindred@mdx.ac.uk

New Programme Pages on UniHub...

Please bear with us as we migrate the systems over from the previous MAPP DTP programme to the newly re-validated MAPP DTP and other new MAPP programmes (MAPP Dance and MAPP Somatic Studies). This is taking a little time to re-register you all to new programme codes in order for you to access the correct programme pages on Unihub and all of your learning materials.

The administration teams are on it...please be patient and you will be able to access the pages very soon!


Looking forward to starting the new term with you all next week.

Don't forget we have our Welcome back skypes this week Friday at 5pm /  Saturday at 2pm (UK times)


Comment on Adesola's blog if you haven't already to let us know which call you will join..

http://adesolamapp.blogspot.co.uk/ 


Helen

Narrating the Somatic Symposium Feb 24th

A date for your diaries ...

We have a coming up at Middlesex Univeristy on Saturday Feb 24th, 

Narrating the Somatic: gathering voices, sharing practices

The symposium will explore how we tell the tales of our embodied experiences and share our practices…narrating the somatic. The Symposium will bring together existing published academics, visual documentaries of movement (photography/film), and movers and choreographers practicing professionally in the field. The event also links to a call for papers for an up-coming special issue of the Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices that Adesola & I will be guest editing.

Booking is now open for the event :

http://www.onlinestore.mdx.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/faculty-of-arts-and-creative-industries/conference/narrating-the-somatic-symposium  

It would be great to see some of you there is you're able to make it to our Hendon Campus. There will be a great mix of workshops, performances, talks and time for networking and discussions. Some of your MAPP DTP alumni will be there presenting work also.

If you want to keep up-to-date with more on the symposium, schedule for the day (to be published shortly) etc.. please do follow our Embodied Practices Blog.

http://embodiedpractices.blogspot.co.uk/

The in-between bit...

Well done to all our finalists that presented their research last Friday... great to hear, see and meet some of you in person!

A note on 'what happens now?' 

Since assessed work for all modules was due in on Jan 5th, Adesola and I are now marking all assignments, preparing work for the External Examiners to view and for the University Assessment boards.

The Assessment Boards take place mid-Feb, shortly after this your grades will be published on UniHub (alongside the work you submitted) and feedback will be emailed to you by your advisor.

Our new term begins on FEB 12th (please note this is corrected from my earlier blog stating the 5th, the slightly later date is correct as we work to align the term dates with assessment dates etc).

Adesola will post details of our monthly skype discussion groups nearer that time, do remember to check in on her blog for this and comment to attend.

In the meantime, if we can ask that skype chats and emails with reference to the next module you're due to progress into and chatting through your plans wait until the next term starts. Use this in-between time to access the next module handbook, read, think, use your journals, blog your thoughts, comment on each others...

Back soon!!

Finalists Presentations...

We would like to invite you all to attend the MAPP DTP Finalists Presentations (either in person or via skype)... do try to support your peers if you can...

MA Professional Practice, Dance Technique Pedagogy

Finalist Presentations

Friday Jan 12^th 2018

College Dance Studio (CG60)

Middlesex University London

Schedule of the day:

Session One:

10.00-10.30 Maite Margues– Oral Presentation / Professional Artefact

10.30-11.00 Becky Jones (S) – Oral Presentation / Professional Artefact

11.00-11.30 Parimala Hansoge (S) - Oral Presentation / Professional Artefact

Short Break

12.00-12.20 – Maite Viva

12.20-12.40 – Becky Viva

12.40-13.00 – Parimala Viva

---------------- Lunch Break – assessors convene ------------------

Session Two:

14.00-14.30 – Barbara Olyus

14.30-15.00 – Michelle Rasdall

15.00-15.30 – Alice Forde (S)

15.30-16.00 – Anna Helsby

-------------------------------- Short Break ----------------------------------

16.00-16.20 – Barbara Viva

16.20-16.40 – Michelle Viva

16.40-17.00 – Alice Viva

17.00-17.20 – Anna Viva

Notes:

Oral Presentations should be no more than 20mins in duration.

You should aim to present/share your Professional Artefact in no more than 10mins.

The viva lasts 20mins and is a one-to-one chance for assessors to ask questions of your research inquiry having experienced your critical review, oral presentation and professional artefact.

We invite the audience, you, your peers, to comment on each others presentations and allow 5-10mins for this dialogue after each presentation

Please note: There is no parking available on the Hendon Campus, nearest tube is Hendon Central (Northern Line). There