Watching Dance | Moving Audiences
08 Mar 2011
Free public events from the Watching Dance Project: 10-25 March
The Watching Dance Project is coming to an end after three years of research funded by the AHRC. During this time researchers across four UK universities have used audience research and neuroscience to explore spectator responses to dance, focusing on kinesthetic empathy (the sensation of movement in the observer). This programme of events will bring that research to light and discuss how it can feed back into the arts, science, dance and academic communities.
Watching Dance | Moving Audiences
Thurs 10 March 2011 at The Greenroom, 54-56 Whitworth St West, Manchester M1 5WW, 8pm
How do choreographers and dancers work together? How do their interactions impact on audience experience? In association with Turn Festival 2010.
Watching Dance Now and Ailey 2
Weds 16 March 2011 at The Lowry Theatre, Pier 8, Salford Quays, M50 3AZ, 5pm
What have we found out and what does it mean for choreographers, dancers, audience developers, audience members and educators. Followed by a wine reception and a public performance by Ailey 2. To book, contact:
Performer-Spectator Relations in Dance
Saturday 19 March as part of Dance and Academia: Moving the Boundaries, Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Choreographer Rosie Kay and Watching Dance researchers discuss their collaboration exploring audience responses to movement and sound.
Moving Together: Connecting through Dance
Sunday 20 March at The Lowry, Pier 8, Salford Quays, M50 3AZ, 12 noon
Workshop with Bonnie Meekums, based on neuroscience and dance movement psychotherapy, aimed at developing an understanding of how dance movement can help deepen relationships. To book, contact:
Mirror Neurons: Movement Learning in the Wink of an Eye
Friday 25 March at Laban, Creekside, London SE8 3DZ, 2 - 3.30pm
Workshop with Glenna Batson. In an atmosphere of play, participants will explore how simple movement sequences readily convey the phenomenal qualities of embodied, shared action. To book, contact:
Kinesthetic Empathy in Action: Watching Dance Round Table
Friday 25 March at Laban, Creekside, London SE8 3DZ, 5 - 6.30pm
A panel of practitioners, researchers, artists and choreographers explore the potential of kinesthetic empathy to influence debates and developments in the arts and sciences.
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