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Bamberger Dance Projects - fluffie 3

Still of Bamberger Dance Projects' fluffie (2019). Credit: Ian Douglas

Bamberger Dance Projects - fluffie 1

Still of Bamberger Dance Projects' fluffie (2019). Credit: Ian Douglas

Inventing Embodiment - Episode 15: Kate Marsh 'Disabled people do embodiment better'

Episode 15 of a series of short podcasts which ask the question 'what do we mean when we talk about embodiment?' Choreographer Jonathan Burrows in conversation with colleagues from the Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE)at Coventry University

Dancing Bodies in Coventry podcast Episode 9: Francis Ranford, Herbert Museum and Art Gallery, Coventry (UK)

Episode 9 of the Dancing Bodies in Coventry podcast that looks at dance in Coventry (UK) past, present and future and dance's heritage and legacy in the city of Coventry (UK)

Bamberger Dance Projects - cottonbrickNEEDle 2

Still of Bamberger Dance Projects' cottonbrickNEEDle (2019). Credit: Ian Douglas

Yellow Couch Convos podcast Episode 10: Adrian Marsh

Episode 10 of the Yellow Couch Convos Podcast hosted by Rosa Cisneros, a Roma Cultural Heritage podcast series with influential, grassroots and cultural heritage sector individuals and institutions. The key stakeholders include artists, dancers, curators, musicians, writers, poets among others that consider themselves and self-identify as member of the CH and ICH ecology. “Yellow Couch Convos” honours storytelling and oral history traditions and modernizes it. This pilot project is also a form of collective and creative activism where the micro pieces feed the larger components that support the broader ERIAC long-term goals of educating and raising awareness.

“Dancing in a Time of Plague”, produced during Lockdown for the EDC Virtual Festival 2020

Norwich Historical Dance Nobile offer 3 15th century dances in a garden: the Bassa danza, Alexandresca, Bassa danza for 2, Voltati in ҫa rosina and the Ballo for 3, Ambrosio. They recreate some sense of Florentines taking refuge from the plague.

Yellow Couch Convos podcast Episode 17: Miguel Angel Vargas

Episode 17 of the Yellow Couch Convos Podcast hosted by Rosa Cisneros, a Roma Cultural Heritage podcast series with influential, grassroots and cultural heritage sector individuals and institutions. The key stakeholders include artists, dancers, curators, musicians, writers, poets among others that consider themselves and self-identify as member of the CH and ICH ecology. “Yellow Couch Convos” honours storytelling and oral history traditions and modernizes it. This pilot project is also a form of collective and creative activism where the micro pieces feed the larger components that support the broader ERIAC long-term goals of educating and raising awareness.

Dancing Bodies in Coventry podcast Episode 1: Natalie Garrett Brown and Emma Meehan

Episode 1 of the Dancing Bodies in Coventry podcast that looks at dance in Coventry (UK) past, present and future and dance's heritage and legacy in the city of Coventry (UK)

LifeStrings Dance Short

Part of the GM5 Residency: Director and Choreographer: Rosa Cisneros from RosaSenCis Film Productions Dancers: Rosa Cisneros, Leyla and Yasemin Cisneros-Sengun Filmed and edited: Maria Polodeanu from Reel Master Productions Music: Hania Rani & Dobrawa Czocher - Śmierć na pięć [Republika] Flamenco is born from the Spanish Roma community and traditional work often includes a singer, guitar player and dancer. LifeStrings is a screendance film that investigates climate justice, violins and motherhood using a contemporary flamenco dance vocabulary. Reflecting on traditional Flamenco dance rhythms, techniques, gestures and modes of transmission, the work asks questions about what we copy and imitate and what we disrupt and let go of in terms of traditions. The film is using a choreographic lens to navigate cultural and generational trauma while also relying on the dancing body to reveal embodied histories and practices. Romani Violin playing by the Lautari musicians have a great tradition of violin playing, with virtuosos frequently embroidering their music with extreme amounts of ornamentation. Within Flamenco, the violin is often used to replace the singer and becomes the voice within an accompaniment. LifeStrings examines this notion of voice and disrupting traditions while drawing on Roman Krznaric’s thinking of the “the good ancestor”. Reflecting on The Vaia, a violent storm that tore through the historic Val di Fiemme forest (Italy) in late 2018 and left a trail of devastation, LifeStrings is dedicated to intergenerational justice and long-term thinking. The Vaia storm in 2018, a great atmospheric depression with strong winds, turned Stradivari's forest into a landscape of destruction. Vaia had a dramatic impact in the whole area of the Dolomites, a UNESCO World Heritage site. It caused almost $3.5 billion worth of damage and knocked down entire forests, destroying 8.5 million cubic meters of wood. LifeStrings asks….What kind of ancestor do you want to be? +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ This work was commissioned by The Romani Cultural and Arts Company who recieved a funding award from the Arts Council of Wales to continue the trailblazing Gypsy Maker project in Wales. ‘Gypsy Maker 5’ is a development of the highly successful ‘Gypsy Maker’ project and commissions Gypsy, Roma and Traveller (GRT) artists to produce new work to add to the growing bank of Gypsy, Roma & Traveller art, knowledge and culture in Wales and beyond.

Somatic Practice and Chronic Pain Network - Breathe in Energy, Breathe out Pain

Breathe in Energy, Breathe out Pain with a gentle Qi Gong Movement Meditation By Eline Kieft This is a video created as part of the Somatic Practice and Chronic Pain Network, funded by AHRC.

A Couple of Regency Dances & a Ball

The Hampshire Regency Dancers host balls, educate the public and recreate the dances of 1775-1830 while have a lot of fun. Here they present “Le Bouquet Cotillion”, an arrangement of Gallini’s c.1772 “Le Bouquet,”an arrangement of Ignatius Sancho’s Strawberries & Cream” and a glimpse of their Annual Ball.

Somatic Practice and Chronic Pain Network - Body awareness, movement and witnessing for chronic pain

This is a practice video developed in collaboration between Micia de Wet, Tamara Ashley and Rachel Cherry in exploring chronic pain through body awareness, movement and drawing/writing. They address the uniqueness of each person and how they manage their own chronic pain, including the associated emotions.

White Rose Early Dance & Greensleeves

Two longstanding early dance groups outline their early dance careers and then perform two challenging dances: Brando Alta Regina (Negri, 1602) and Dance for Nine by Mr Couch (Pemberton, 1711). From the EDC Online Festival 2020.