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• ResDance Series 8: Episode 10: Inclusive Dance and Empowerment: Voices from Opening Doors Malta with Angela Bettoni and Sara Accettura

  ResDance Series 8: Episode 10: Inclusive Dance and Empowerment: Voices from Opening Doors Malta with Angela Bettoni and Sara AccetturaIn this episode, Angela and Sara share insight into their experiences as educators, practitioners, researchers and advocates for inclusive practice. Situated around their workwith Opening Doors, an arts organisation in Malta that works for the active involvement of adults with intellectual disabilities in the artistic sector, we explore what ‘inclusivity’ means in their own artistic practice and experiences within the sector.  We explore the importance of open dialogue in fostering opportunities for collaboration, the need for societal change in the perception of inclusive arts and the wider role of dance and the moving body as a non-verbal form of communication. Throughout the episode, they celebrate an openness to inclusion and working alongside everyone, advocating that dance is accessible for all.  https://openingdoors.org.mt/  Angela BettoniBorn in 2001, Angela is a writer, performer and advocate with Down Syndrome. Angela has been living in Maltasince 2013 and has a Sri Lankan mother and Italian Father. Angela has just finished her BA in Creative Arts at MCAST, where she previously received her Advanced Diploma in Performing Arts. Angela is a passionate advocate forinclusion in the performing arts in Malta. She became Malta’s first TV presenter with Down Syndrome when she co-presented a 10-minute programme (Action!) on TV Malta in 2022. In 2023, she collaborated with the MindAdventures Theatre Company in Sri Lanka, performing “Heart”, a mixed-ability duet to a monologue she had written. This summer (2024), she performed a mixed-ability duet called BALM at Dance Festival Malta and at the Venere inTeatro Festival in Venice. Angela has been an Executive Committee Member of the Commonwealth Children and Youth Disability Network (2021- 22) and is a member of the Young People's Disability Rights Forum in Malta (2021-2024). In December 2022, Angela received a JCI Malta Ten Outstanding Young Persons (TOYP) award for her advocacy work.Contact details: Website: www.angelabettoni.net  Social Media:Instagram - @angelabettoni18   YouTube - Angela Bettoni Down SyndromeAdvocate  X- @Angie_DownSyn   -Facebook: Angela BettoniSara Accettura Sara Accettura is an educator, practitioner, and researcher with a PhD in Inclusive Dance and Autism (University of Bedfordshire). Her work focuses on creating accessible andempowering environments for neurodiverse individuals. Originally from Italy, Sara holds a Diploma for Dance Teachers and an MA in Choreography, as well as a first-class BA (Hons) and MA in Performance from London Contemporary DanceSchool (University of Kent). She has performed and choreographed for several European dance companies, with her choreographic works receiving international recognition and awards. Sara also teaches internationally. She is the artisticdirector of Junior Dance Company (Bari and Malta), Dance Master Class, and the inclusive project Dance For All. She lectures at the University of Malta in the Dance Studies and Disability Studies departments. Additionally, she is a boardmember and dance leader with Opening Doors Association Malta, promoting access to the arts for adults with intellectual disabilities.Contact details:Email: [email protected]: https://www.facebook.com/sara.accettura1/Social media:https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100079289806203 (Dance For All Project)Other sources:Accettura, S. (2023) ‘L'incontro tra danza e autismo: un'indagine qualitativa presentata attraverso l'uso di vignette’ in P. Grassi and R. Zammit Bioethics and the paradox of appearance: fragility, dependence, disability in the various phasesof life. Rome: Armando Editore, pp.703-720. The JD Dragon Disability Rights Podcast: (https://open.spotify.com/episode/1S6uurALuEXCbVXHHnO34G?si=mwK7WKONStytfQlJQ2AE2w)

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• ResDance Series 8: Episode 9: Choreography, Questions and Relationality with Nic Conibere

  ResDance Series 8: Episode 9: Choreography, Questions and Relationality with Nic Conibere In this episode, Nic shares insight into her choreographic processes and on the theoretical ideas, frameworks andenvironments that more widely inform her practice-based research. Alongside sharing her processes for creating work, Nic draws upon her own formative experiences and encounters with choreography.  Throughout the episode, we explore  ideas around the body and spaces of exchange and ways of being curious and seeking out where relationality can be found.  Nicola Conibere is a choreographer and Programme Leader for the MFA Choreography at the University of Roehampton. Her work explores the politics of bodies, performance and the potentials of the choreographic.Headshot photographer: Christa Holka. Contact Details Email: [email protected] Website: www.nicolaconibere.com Staff Profile Link: https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/nicola-conibere    Published Resourceswww.nicolaconibere.com Please share this episode with students, educators, practitioners, performers, and interdisciplinary researchers curious to learn more about dance research inaction.

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• AHRC Funded Dance Research Matters Network Series: Episode 5

  Dancing Otherwise: Reflections on Pluriversal Practices with Victoria Hunter, Daniela Perazzo and Michelle ElliottIn this second episode of their Dance Research Matters Network, Vicky, Daniela and Michelle remind listeners of the focus of their network, which aimed to explore how practices created by artists from diverse backgrounds and artistic perspectives, produce new understandings, positionalities and new modes of knowing.  In this episode, they share insight into the network activities and how these have created new opportunities for dialogue around how we might thinkdifferently in our field. Through situating thinking in their own practices, they consider what being otherwise means to them and reflect upon the richness of what they have learnt from both the network and their approaches to pluriveral thinking.  They discuss future dissemination of the network activities, the wider value of transdisciplinary debate and remind listeners as to the value of dance in demonstrating others modes of being and doing.Dancing Otherwise: Exploring Pluriversal Practices NetworkThe network emerged from the investigators’ interests in dance and politics and a curiosity about the potential for dance to explore, illustrate and provoke ways of relating and being ‘otherwise’. Website: www.dancingotherwise.com Instagram: @dancingotherwise Contributor biography: Victoria Hunter Vicky Hunter is a Practitioner-Researcher and Professor in Site Dance and formerly head of the MA Choreography and Professional Practices programme at the University ofChichester. She joined Bath Spa in October 2023 and leads the AHRC ‘Dancing Otherwise: Exploring Pluriversal Practices’ network and is a member of the Ecotones research project led by Professor Amanda Bayley.Her research is transdisciplinary and includes site dance practice and theory, embodied research methods and post human feminism, eco-somatic awareness, environmentalchoreography, practice-research methods, dance and new materialisms.Biography: https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/our-people/vicky-hunter/ Contact: ⁠ [email protected] Contributor biography: Daniela Perazzo Daniela is Senior Lecturer in Dance and PostgraduateResearch Coordinator for the School of Arts at Kingston University London. Her research interrogates the intersections of the aesthetic and the political in contemporary choreography, focusing on the ethical, po(i)etic and criticalpotentialities of experimental and collaborative practices. Her publications include articles in Performance Philosophy, Performance Research, Dance Research Journal, Choreographic Practices and Contemporary Theatre Review, and the monograph Jonathan Burrows: Towards a Minor Dance (Palgrave, 2019). Her latest researchengages with notions of vulnerability and discomfort and attends to the gaps, difficulties and entanglements of modes of being in relation. Biography: https://www.kingston.ac.uk/staff/profile/dr-daniela-perazzo-179/ Contact: [email protected] biography: Michelle Elliott Michelle is the Subject Leader for Dance at Bath Spa University with research interests in a range of sociocultural issues, the ontology of creativity and embodied cognitive theories.  She has publications on critical approaches to dance analysis,dance and cultural identity politics and creativity research.  Michelle is the co-convenor of the Creative Practice and Embodied Knowledge Research Group, a collective that aims to celebrate and elevate knowledge that exists and emerges from our creative, embodied interactions and experiences.  Biography: https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/our-people/michelle-elliott/ Contact: [email protected] Dance Research Matters NetworksThe five AHRC-funded Dance Research Matters Networks explore current issues and generate change and legacy for thesector. For more information, please visit: danceresearchmatters.coventry.ac.ukInstagram and Twitter: @danceresearchmatters

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• AHRC-funded Dance Research Matters Network Series: Episode 4: Centring Dance in Research with Sarah Whatley

  AHRC-funded Dance Research Matters Network Series: Episode 4: Centring Dance in Research with Sarah WhatleyIn this episode, Sarah reflects upon the role of the five AHRC-funded Dance Research Matters Networks and their importance in generating change and legacy for the sector. Wediscuss the incentive for the Dance Research Matters campaign and consider ways in which dance research can be more visible in the UK. Throughout this episode, Sarah considers how dance can claim its space when linking with other disciplines and a need for dance to continue to voice the valuable contributionit makes to the wider research landscape. Contributor BibliographySarah Whatley is Director, Centre for Dance Research. Her research focuses on the interface between dance and new technologies, dance analysis, somatic dance practice andpedagogy, and inclusive dance. The AHRC, the Leverhulme Trust, Wellcome Trust and the European Union fund her current and previous research, which is broadly focused on the impact of digital technologies on tangible and intangible cultural heritage. She led the AHRC-funded Siobhan Davies digital archive project, RePlay, and has since partnered with a number of other leading artist organisations. She was founding Principal Editor of the Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices (JDSP) and now sits on the Journal's Board as well as severalother Journals. Sarah was a panel member in REF 2014 (Panel D35) and in 2021 (Panel D33) and is a Strategic Reviewer and member of the AHRC Peer Review College. She is also an Evaluator for the European Commission.Full biography: https://pureportal.coventry.ac.uk/en/persons/sarah-whatley AHRC-funded Dance Research Matters Networks The five AHRC-funded Dance Research Matters Networks explore current issues and generate change and legacy for thesector. The ecosystems created by the Networks traverse across South Asian dance, digital black dance, future producing dance ecologies, critical dance pedagogies, and pluriversal dance practices and will be mapped for reach and impact in and beyond the sector.For more information, please visit: danceresearchmatters.coventry.ac.uk    Instagram and Twitter: @danceresearchmatters Please share this episode with students, educators, practitioners, performers, andinterdisciplinary researchers curious to learn more about dance research inaction.

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• ResDance Series 8: Episode 8: The value of dance in Secondary Education with Jo-Hodson Prior

  ResDance Series 8: Episode 8: The value of dance in Secondary Education with Jo-Hodson PriorIn the episode, Jo shares insight into her experiencesworking in education and teaching dance to young people from 11-18 in a Secondary school, and in her role as a PGCE Dance Subject Coordinator.  Through situating our conversation in ways of maintaining high quality dance provision, we discuss different ways of accessing dance, current dance and teaching practices and the transferable skills dance can offer both young people and the wider school community. Drawing upon her experiences as a practitioner and researcher, Jo shares insight into findings from her PhD research and her holistic teaching practice underpinned by theoretical discourse.  Jo further discusses the importance of developing positive wellbeing for young people through dance and giving young people a voice, highlighting the positive role reflective practice and encouraging them to create, explore and play, can provide. Throughout the episode, she advocates the importance of dance in schools and for the awareness of inclusive practices within dance. Jo is currently the PGCE Dance Subject Coordinator and Professional Studies Tutor at the University of Chichester and has been working in education for the past 21 years, teachingdance to young people from 11-18 in a Secondary school, as well as teaching contemporary dance vocationally. Jo has continually advocated for the importance of the Arts In schools, with a specific focus on high quality dance and inclusive practice.  She is currently completing her PhD at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, focussing on the development of positive mental health and wellbeing in secondary age students, through a creative dance approach. Contact Details:Email: [email protected] Related Publications: OneDance Uk article for Education EditionHodson-Prior, J., (2019). University of Chichester & PGCE Dance. One Dance UK. Available at:https://www.onedanceuk.org/university-of-chichester-pgce-dance/?utm_source=One%20Dance%20UK&utm_campaign=452670b487-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_05_09_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f4ae144224-452670b487-144492377Please share this episode with students, educators, practitioners, performers, and interdisciplinary researchers curious to learn more about dance research inaction.

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