Our Dance Democracy was founded in Liverpool 2018, a city of defiance – solidarity and home to radical and diverse dance, performance and cultural heritage practices.
Our Dance Democracy 3 – Courageous Conversations Positively Democratising Narratives – addresses dance, performance and heritage practices which positively disrupts Western canons, and promotes the artist voice, agency and endeavour which enhances critical art practices.
Dance and performance practices under the auspice of globalisation have increased global and intersectional discourse in art making practices, and as such has powerfully contextualised the systemic and institutionalised effects of Global majorities, Gender, Disability, Racial injustices, Maternal in the art making sectors.
In Our Dance Democracy 3 we invite dance, performance and heritage practices which explore expansive understanding of human experiences, that speak to an equity of belonging, and champion diversity and identity politics. In this event, we would like to encourage the power of Courageous Conversations and at the same time advocate a safe and transformative space.
Our Dance Democracy 3 will be a two-day conference, dedicated to deliberating on the role of dance artists and scholars in ways including, but not limited to –
29th March Liverpool Hope University – Care, Compassion and Culture
Transformation, Identity, Endeavour and Risk
Activism and activist art making practices
Reimagine teaching and learning practices
30th March Edge Hill University – Decolonising our Stories
Transformation, Identity, Endeavour and Risk
Diasporic, First Nation and other dance practices
Appropriation and marginalisation of knowledge-systems
Submission of Abstracts: 27th Jan 2023
Email tagline: Our Dance Democracy 3
For further information, please contact
Dr Sarah Black blacks@hope.ac.uk
Karen Gallagher – kgallagher.k@gmail.com