TransDisciplinary Improvisation Symposium at Middlesex University London

This symposium has come about through the research interests of Mdx faculty through the schools of Media and Performing Arts - it is a space for sharing research, exchanging thoughts and networking through professional practice.  MAPP DTP students and alumni are most welcome to attend (booking at the Student concessionary rate) equally please do share this with others within your professional communities that may be interested. Hope to see some of you there! Helen T.I.N. presents What’s in a Name? (#TINconf15) View this email in your browser

(TIN) TransDisciplinary Improvisation Network presents What’s in a Name?  23rd - 24th October 2015 Event times: Friday 23rd October: 13.00pm – 20.30pm  Saturday 24th October: 09.00am – 17.00pm  Improvisation is a long–standing practice that is central to the processes of many performance forms with well-established practices and associated discourses. More recently the significance of improvisation has been recognised in contexts beyond the arts, including for example design, education, therapy and management, making this a dynamic and emergent field of research. Strongly grounded in the creative arts and led by expert improvisers this event will be an opportunity to articulate and elaborate practices and contribute to the emerging critical discourses of all things improvisatory, refining understandings of creative approaches, terminologies and significances. The day will include key note presentations, papers by leading researchers/artists, workshops, performances and open research spaces for shared creative dialogue, such that we use the modalities of the improvised (and the various practices we bring) as a way to consider the nature, benefits and problematics of improvisation. Guest Key Note Presentations: David Toop, Professor of Audio Culture and Improvisation  - www.arts.ac.uk Sondra Fraleigh, Professor emeritus and Dance Artist/Writer - www.eastwestsomatics.com Gary Peters, Professor of Critical and Cultural Theory - www.yorksj.ac.uk In the evening we have a improvised performance event, in conjunction with the Inside Out festival by: Jonathan Impett, Simon Limbrick, Ben Dwyer, Helen Kindred, Robert Vesty, Vida Midgelow, Suzanne Martin and guests. Registration open online at our online store.  £75 (waged/ institution) and £45 (unwaged/freelance artist/student) Middlesex Staff free attendance to conference, evening reception £15. Please register through the Online Store. (NB. All presenters need to register) If you wish to join the conversation on social media, we'd like to suggest the hashtag #TINconf15. How to get here The conference is held at our main campus in Hendon, north London, which is located 10 minutes from the Northern Line and Thameslink rail line, both of which take you to central London in under 30 minutes. For directions and maps please click here. Accommodation The Hendon Hall Hotel, Ashley Lane (within walking distance)  The Pillar Hotel, Brent Street (within walking distance)  Holiday Inn, Brent Cross (a short bus or Tube ride from Hendon) Informal inquiries can be directed to the conference conveners: Vida Midgelow:  v.midgelow@mdx.ac.uk Helen Kindred:  h.kindred@mdx.ac.uk   Registration & Refreshments: Studio 3, Ravensfield Theatre   Venue: Middlesex University, The Burroughs, London, NW4 4BT - Map   Join the conversation on social media, @TINConference15, hashtag #TINconf15.

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New Term...

Good to talk to some of you joining us on the MAPP DTP at our induction this weekend, and looking forward to talking with others through the week.  Returning students - very much looking forward to having you back with us and continuing your journeys this term!

A few notices and thoughts as we all prepare to start the new (school) year on the MA together...

Adesola and I continue to be your advisors this term, and from this academic year we will be Co-leading the programme itself too, working together to help to grow a wider MAPP community.  You should still contact your advisor for tutorial discussions, drafts of work etc, and anything programme related - enrolment, fees, assessment etc can be directed to either of us as Programme Leaders.

Term begins on Monday Sept 28th and runs for 12 weeks through to the Winter break (Dec 18-Jan 3)
Your next submission date (across all modules) is MONDAY JAN 4th 2016.

Our monthly Skype meetings for all MA students resume on Oct 4th, again we will be offering an AM and a PM meeting in the hopes that you can make one of them from wherever you are in the world.  We aim to keep these to the first Sunday of each month at 1100 and 1700 (London time).

Adesola co-ordinates the Skype meetings and will post a reminder before each one on her blog (remember to check-in with our blogs weekly for any notices like this), make sure you have sent a contact request to Adesola on Skype <aonthephone> before the call and comment on her blog to let her know which call (1100 or 1700) you want to join.  It's helpful when you send a contact request to note that you are on the MAPP DTP so that we know who you are!

As soon as I have an up to date list of all blog addresses (those new to the programme remember to send your advisor your address as soon as you have it set up) I will upload this onto our MA PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE DANCE TECHNIQUE PEDAGOGY PROGRAMME PAGE ON UNIHUB (in the Resources Folder).  Don't forget the blogs are your space to communicate with each other, read, leave comments at a time that works for you and do make a point of checking in with our blogs on a weekly basis as this is how we will communicate with you all as a community on the MA.

For this week in preparation for term starting, take the time to download the handbook for your module and have a read through it.  Returning students please do check you are enrolled for the correct continuing module (Module Two - module code WBS4630 / Module Three - module code  WBS4760), those coming in on Module One you should be enrolling this week (module code WBS4510) any problems do let us know!

Helen

Grades...

With apologies for the delay in your results from the work submitted in May being published, I am happy to confirm that all grades have now been approved by the University Assessment boards and External Examiners and should be visible for you on MyUniHub.  Well done to you all, some really exciting work emerging here across all the modules!

If you have any problems viewing your grades here please do contact the UniHelp desk.
You should have received written feedback on your work also now from your advisor, if you have any queries or problems accessing this please contact us.

Over the next two weeks we will be updating Module Handbooks and general information on our Programme Area on UniHub, do take a look at the end of the month and access the handbook and information for the next module you are moving onto in September.   Those of you who have completed the MA now and will be moving on to new ventures in September, we look forward to seeing you at the Graduation ceremony on Friday!

Our new term will start on Monday Sept 28th, and we will have a new schedule of group Skype meetings to post soon for you also.

If your summers have some space in them we have a few more places on our Dance and Writing Summer Intensive running Aug 17-21, student rate £250, this will benefit any of you as you move between the modules on the MAPP DTP.  Each day will start with a morning movement class and afternoons will be spent looking at research, writing, referencing skills with the focus on how we translate our physical experiences in dance into writing.  It would be great to move with you and spend the week together if you can make it.

Please use this link to book, or comment here with any questions...

http://www.onlinestore.mdx.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=5&deptid=48&catid=118&prodid=623&searchresults=1&mc_cid=b0b516abfe&mc_eid=896d46dbef

Helen

Summer Intensive is open for booking...

The Dance and Writing Professional Practice Summer Intensive will take place August 17th-21st 2015 and will be held at Middlesex University's Hendon Campus, London.

Dates: August 17-21, 2015

Costs: £350 (Full/institution funded)  £250 (concessions/unwaged/students)

Venue: Middlesex University London NW4 4BT

Facilitators: Adesola Akinleye and Helen Kindred

Bookings and Payment online: www.mdx.ac.uk/onlinestore

The programme has been designed in response to feedback from students on both the MAPP DTP and the BA Professional Practice (arts) programmes concerning the transition from vocational training, performance work, independent practice, studio teaching into studying within a university environment and being able to confidently share rich bodies of experiential knowledge through academic writing.

The programme intends to address these transitions through a mix of studio (practical) dance classes and classroom sessions;  accessing and developing literature reviews, citation methods, academic writing structures and written expression of physical experiences, engaging with social media and web 2.0 online developing confidence in online learning and sharing.

Each day will begin with a movement class followed by sessions looking at text, research skills and writing to help students develop confidence in what they have to offer as academic students and to encourage students to draw on their somatic knowing of movement to inform their ideas and writing.

Please do contact myself or Adesola if you have any questions or need further information on this.

MA Presentations May 29th 2015

You are warmly invited to attend the

MA Professional Practice, Dance Technique Pedagogy

Finalist Presentations

May 29th 2015

College Dance Studio (CG60)

Middlesex University London

Schedule of the day:

12.30 arrival / coffee and finalists set-up

13.00 – 14.30 Presentations  - 2 finalists presenting their Research Projects, each presentation is approx 30mins with questions, comments, invited afterwards.

14.45-15.45 – Assessors questions/discussion with finalists

Please confirm attendance via email to Helen Kindred h.kindred@mdx.ac.uk

Presentation and Submission of your work...

As you approach the stage of preparing work for submission I thought it may be helpful to re-post this blog offering some guidance as to the presentation of your work in line with the University's expectations.  Whilst the content and expression of your experiences for each essay is most important, presenting work for consideration by the University also expects you to adhere to certain protocol.

Some guidelines:

Presentation of Essays

Guidelines

Essays should be typed, 1.5 or double spaced. 

Please justify the margins on both sides. Fonts: use Times New Roman, Arial or Garamond. 

The cover page should include; 

your name

student number

programme and year

module number and title

module tutor - PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU STATE HELEN KINDRED, SENIOR LECTURER IN DANCE (TG55) to ensure any hard copy work submitted gets to the correct office.

full title of assignment and date written and word count.

Please do not use bold type or underlining in your essay, but italicize any foreign words as well as book titles and titles of choreographic works, plays or films. Use single quotes (‘and “double quotes” inside single quotes’).

1)            References in bibliography:

A bibliography is a list of all source material you have used, whether or not you have quoted from it. It is important to show that you have extended your knowledge by referring to other texts/works/authorities. A bibliography should be presented in alphabetical order of author’s surname. There are various ways of setting out a bibliography, but the details should always include:

Book:

Surname, Initial(s). Date of publication. Title in italics. Place of Publication: Publisher.

For example:

Ostwald, P. 1999. Vaslav Nijinsky. A Leap into Madness. London: Robson Books.

Edited book:

Surname, Initial(s). (ed.). Date of publication. Title in italics. Place: Publisher.

For example:

Carter, A. (ed.). 1998. The Routledge Dance Studies Reader. London: Routledge.

Book chapter:

Surname, Initial(s). Date. Chapter title. In Name of editor (ed.), Book Title. Place of Publication: Publisher, pages in book.

For example:

Carter, A. 1996. Bodies of knowledge: Dance and feminist analysis. In Patrick Campbell (ed.),Analysing performance. A critical reader. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 43-55.

Journal articles:

Surname, Initial(s). Date. Title of article. Title of journal volume (issue no.), page numbers.

For example:

Gill, R., and Pratt, A. 2008. In the Social Factory? Immaterial Labour, Precariousness and Cultural Work. Theory, Culture & Society 25(7), 1–30.

Videography / DVDs (a list of videos /DVDs you have used):

Name of choreographer. Date of work. Title of work in italics. [DVD/video, etc]. Place of distribution, distributing company.

For example:

Khan, A. and Cherkaoui, S.L. 2008. Zero Degrees [DVD]. Sadler’s Wells on Screen. Axiom Films International Limited.

Media broadcast, e.g. television programme

Title. Year. Type of media. Originator (e.g. channel). Exact date and time of broadcast.

For example:

The Culture Show. 2013. TV. BBC2. 13th March, 2200 hrs.

Live performance:

Choreographer. Year of premiere. Title in italics. Company (optional). [Location. Date seen].

For example:

Ashton, F. 1948. Cinderella. [Royal Opera House, London. 13 January 2004].

Newspaper articles:

1)    Printed:

Surname, Initial(s). Title of article. Title of newspaper, day and month of article, page number.

For example:

Rae, B. 2008. Mozart dances at Civic Theatre. The New Zealand Herald, 25 August, 11.

2)    Electronic:

Surname, Initial(s). Year of publication. Title of Article. Title of Newspaper in italics [online]. Day and month of article. Page number of article - if applicable. Available from: URL of database supplier [accessed date].

For example:

Dickson, Andrew. 2011. Immersive Theatre: It Was a Ghost in the Library with a Violin. The Guardian [online]. 4 July, 14. Available from:http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/jul/04/immersive-theatre [accessed 2 January 2012].

Internet References

Electronic references should contain the following elements:

Surname, initial(s) of author (if known). Date. Title of document [Type of resource, i.e. Online]. Organisation responsible (optional). Available from: Title of Website [accessed date].

For example:

With author:

Cvejic, B. 2010. Xavier Le Roy: The Dissenting Choreography of One Frenchman Less. Available from:

http://www.xavierleroy.com/page.php?id=4b530eff077090c4cdd558852f04f24fb0840bae&lg=en[accessed 28 July 2013].

Without author:

BBC News. 2008. Factory gloom worst since 1980 [online]. Available from:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7681569.stm [accessed 10 June 2012].

Note: Dates are not always available for web pages. If this is so use (n.d.) to represent no date so that the reader knows you have omitted this element. In the in-text quotation, please reference as follows: Cvejic, 2010 (first example); BBC News, 2008 (second example).

Students should only use internet references when no other possibility for gaining this information exists. This is sometimes the case with current dance performances or choreographers. Dance students are not allowed to use Wikipedia or quotation websites for their assignments. They frequently provide incorrect and plagiarised information or quotations taken out of context which are not a means to find relevant academic information. 

Other source material may be listed e.g. ‘Interviews’; there are no definitive guidelines for the presentation of these, but please give as much information as possible. For interviews give the name and role of person you interviewed, date and place of interview.

2)            In-text quotations

References should follow the Harvard style whereby references are cited in the text as (author, date: page) with full details in the bibliography at the end of the article. As a rule, page numbers should also be present unless the quotation refers to a very general argument or idea. Quotations of three lines or more should be indented in a separate paragraph. Please note that in-text quotations do not include the initial(s) of the author, but initial(s) should be stated in the bibliography.

Examples

Direct quotations:

- Phillips (2002: 43) noted that ‘contemporary dance in New Zealand is evolving rapidly’.         

- ‘Contemporary dance in New Zealand is evolving rapidly’ (Phillips, 2002: 43).

If author is not known:       

- This was obviously not the case before 2001 (Beating the Millenium Bug, 2003: 14)

- In Beating the Millenium Bug (2001: 14), it is claimed that this was not the case before 2001.

Secondary sources:                                                                                                          
- Smith (cited in Martin, 1991: 152) stated that one medium can be used in many different ways.                                                                                                                     
- One medium can be used in many different ways (Smith, cited in Martin, 1991: 52).  

Indirect quotations/paraphrasing a passage from a text:                                                                                                                            

- As the economy heated up, the government support for the arts cooled down (Horosko, 2002).                   

- Horosko states that as the economy heated up, the government support for the arts cooled down (2002).

When paraphrasing, you need to state the page number as if it were a direct quotation. If paraphrasing an argument that extends over several pages, you need to state this page range in full (e.g. 58-61). In the above example we can assume that this is an online source as there is no page number stated.

Submission:

You must submit your work via the Turnitin drop boxes on UniHub PLUS via email to both Adesola and myself (regardless of who is your advisor, as we both need to review your work for assessment).  <adesola@dancingstrong.com> <h.kindred@mdx.ac.uk> 

Module One portfolios, Module Two Research Proposals and Module Three Critical Reviews you must also submit via hard copy either in person to the UniHelp Desk in the Sheppard Library on the Hendon Campus or my post to:

Helen Kindred, Senior Lecturer in Dance

School of Media and Performing Arts (TG55)

Middlesex University London

Hendon

NW4 4BT

Ensuring that you mail your work by the submission deadline.  Please note that we will take the date of submission from the date of posting, do not worry about it getting to us on the deadline, but posting it by the deadline.

To submit via UniHub:

Login to UniHub and go to MyUniHub / MyLearning / MA Professional Practice Dance Technique Pedagogy

Within our programme page you will find all the folders including your handbooks, resources and submission.

Open the folder titled SUBMISSIONS MAY

You will see there a checklist of submission content for each module and a Turnitin submission icon.  

Click on the turnitin icon for your Module (one, two or three) to upload your work.

Please note that Turnitin cannot accept work saved through PAGES.  You work must be saved as ONE DOCUMENT as a word file.

Should you have any technical problems with UniHub and turnitin please follow this link for advice.

uniHelp (http://unihub.mdx.ac.uk/unihelp) for technical problems 

Dance and Writing Professional Practice Summer Intensive

We're really excited to let you know the dates of our first Professional Practice Summer Intensive, with more details to follow very shortly.

The Dance and Writing Professional Practice Summer Intensive will take place August 17th-21st 2015 and will be held at Middlesex University's Hendon Campus, London.

The programme has been designed in response to feedback from students on both the MAPP DTP and the BA Professional Practice (arts) programmes concerning the transition from vocational training, performance work, independent practice, studio teaching into studying within a university environment and being able to confidently share rich bodies of experiential knowledge through academic writing.

The programme intends to address these transitions through a mix of studio (practical) dance classes and classroom sessions;  accessing and developing literature reviews, citation methods, academic writing structures and written expression of physical experiences, engaging with social media and web 2.0 online developing confidence in online learning and sharing.

Each day will begin with a movement class followed by sessions looking at text, research skills and writing to help students develop confidence in what they have to offer as academic students and to encourage students to draw on their somatic knowing of movement to inform their ideas and writing.

The Summer Intensive will be open for booking and a full programme available through the MDX online store by the end of the month, we just wanted to flag up the dates to you now appreciating that you're probably in the process of planning your summers!

Provisional Details:

Dates: August 17-21, 2015

Costs: £350 (Full) £250 (concessions/unwaged)

Venue: Middlesex University London NW4 4BT

Facilitators: Adesola Akinleye and Helen Kindred

Bookings and Payment online: www.mdx.ac.uk/onlinestore

 
The programme is open to all current MAPP DTP students, alumni and enrolling students for the coming academic year, and would be a great opportunity to come together and learn more whatever stage you're at.

Any questions in the meantime please do comment here with them,

Helen