Crip* Ecologies of Producing Dance
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
Thursday 19 September | 12 – 5.30 pm (Including lunch) | Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (and also online )
***closed for registration***
A partnership between The Work Room and Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, this event is part of the AHRC Future Ecologies: Producing Dance Network project, which brings together higher education institutions and dance organisations across the UK to scope the ecosystem that supports those involved in producing dance (more information about the network here )
We invite disabled and non-disabled artists, producers, researchers, and anyone interested exploring alternative models of producing dance to join us either in person or on-line.
- What kinds of ecologies of producing dance exist, and are emerging, when disability and crip are the focus?
- How do crip ecologies influence practice and approaches to making and producing dance?
- What crip models of producing are currently being practiced?
- What might future ecologies of crip producing look / sound / feel like?
With crip, different ways of knowing, experiencing, and doing, are embraced. The emphasis is on the normality of different bodyminds doing things differently. Crip relates to the affirmative model of disability and has emerged from disability arts and disability pride. An activist term and politicised identity, crip embraces an individual’s impairment as a crucial aspect of their identity and place within disability or crip culture.
If ecology is about relations and systems, with crip ecology we are interested in what kinds of relations and systems support producing crip and disability dance. Are there particular kinds of relations between those involved in producing dance that emerge in the context of crip? What are crip dance practices, artistic forms, rehearsal structures, ways of touring, performer-audience relations etc? And how do crip approaches influence and relate more widely to current ecosystems of producing dance?
Crip Ecologies of Producing Dance will be a relaxed, creative and accessible event with artists presentations, discussions and reflections. The event will be hosted by Dr Sarah Hopfinger (RCS) and Anita Clark (The Work Room) with guest contributions:
It is open to anyone interested in contributing to these conversations around crip dance producing.
To register for this event, please click here and complete the google form.
PLEASE NOTE: You can register to attend in person or online up until the 18 September. However, we may struggle to respond to any individual dietry requests or access support received after the 12 September.
· Many self-identifying disabled people, particularly in arts and activism, have reclaimed ‘Crip” as a political term of solidarity, community and resistance to able-ism; conveying shared understanding, celebration and appreciation of what it is to live in the world as a disabled person. This is the intention with which we use it here. We know that not all disabled people embrace this term. You are very much welcome to this event if you are a disabled person who does not identify with the term.
ACCESS
The event will include BSL interpretation.
You can read about access at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland building and travelling information here.
If you have any individual access requests, please note these in the registration form of if there is anything else you’d like to talk through that would making attending easier and more enjoyable for you, please get in touch with us directly by email to: hello@theworkroom.org.uk
For The Work Room members, we are able to cover travel costs from outsider Glasgow and can also have some childcare bursaries available.