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Symposium Dance and diversity 2019
SYMPOSIUM
Artists within the field of integrated artistic dance practices, education and performing arts collaborated in workshops with all dance students of Royal Conservatoire Antwerp and invited guests. Dancers with mixed backgrounds, histories and abilities met to dance, investigate, exchange and discuss dance and diversity as part of an ongoing practice and research within the Dance programme.
With workshops by Max Greyson and Un-Label, Vera Tussing and Sebastian Kann, Marco Torrice and KunstZ, Said Gharbi and Leif Firnhaber.
In partnership with KunstZ, Unlabel, CERA and Integrated.
DANCE AND DIVERSITY
The diversity in our society, developments in the performing arts and the changes within the national and international dance field ensure that the current profile of the dance artist is becoming ever more layered. More and more, it is necessary to be able to fulfill various roles simultaneously within a wide and varied field: as a dancer, teacher, choreographer, but also as a researcher, actor, mentor, coach, animator, networker, organizer and entrepreneur. Graduates end up in diverse contexts or set up initiatives within the professional, artistic and socio-cultural circuit. The rapid pace at which dance and movement practices change influences both the current working methods and career opportunities of the dance artist and the professional field itself. As a dance training, we have the responsibility to prepare future dance artists for this changing dance landscape in order to take an active, creative role in personal, artistic and social processes and developments within a large diversity of fields.
The program of the Bachelor Dance focuses on this broad definition of the dance artist through a wide range of dance techniques and complementary courses taught by teachers, artists, makers and thinkers with different specialization and approach, but with the same vision: the potential to challenge and develop a maximum of every student in a way in which the balance between variation and depth is sought. The course consciously chooses not to express a specific preference in terms of student profile, artistic and educational currents within dance or specialization, but to focus primarily on the potential of the individual talent of the student and to guide this development on artistic, personal and social level.
Since 2014 dance and diversity has been an official part of the curriculum. Students from the study program and dancers with a physical or mental disability get together, do research, exchange, make performances and learn from each other. In addition to the weekly labo research group, the project also includes an annual symposium with workshops, performances, debates and collaborations with teachers, artists and companies from the Netherlands and abroad who are active in the social art field and inclusive dance practice. In the Summerschool, which takes place on arts campus deSingel and the theme days during the academic year, new collaborations are entered into with programs, theaters and artists who propagate dance and diversity in their way of working and we share this knowledge with a larger audience.
📷 Nathan Ishar, www.pramudiya.com, Instagram, Facebook
Lore Loyens made an audiovisual interpretation of the Symposium.