The Drying Prayers: Peace Dance from a Central African Perspective

干燥的祈祷：中非视角的和平之舞

• 批准号: AH/T004053/1
• 负责人: Nicolas Salazar Sutil
• 金额: $ 3.08万
• 依托单位: University of Leeds
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FT004053%2F1
• 关键词: Drying; Prayers; Peace; Dance; Central

This follow-on project responds to a community need, which is the promotion of culture for development among displaced communities in Central Africa. Our previous research has built capacity for knowledge exchange (Phase I) and training (Phase II). We now require support from AHRC for impact and engagement activities. Our new focus group are women and children. These developments are part of a long-term collaboration between PI Salazar Sutil and non-academic partner Taigue Ahmed (Artistic Director of Ndam Se Na). Ndam Se Na has conducted community engagement work in refugee camps for almost 15 years, developing a unique pedagogy for community-building through dance. The focus of this project is the Baga Sola UNHCR refugee camp located in the Lake Chad region, which is a new area of activity for NSN. This fund is supporting the growth and expansion of NSN's methodology both within Chad and internationally. The reason for conducting work in Lake Chad is all the more relevant given the fact that this region is experiencing one of the largest humanitarian crisis in the world due to the disappearance of the lake, a problem aggravated by Boko-Haram related violence. This project will enable us to take our research programme in new directions through development of a novel impact and engagement plan that enhances previous research, while engaging new communities and partners in defining and responding to the above-mentioned need. This fund will enable a new team of African artists and researchers to be recruited through open call. The team will conduct practice-research on the subject of "peace performance," exploring embodied ethical values found within traditional Chadian dances used in Ahmed's pedagogy. The team of practitioners will spend three weeks in the Lake Chad, and will facilitate rhythm and dance workshops with our new focus group (women and children). In September 2019, we will conduct a festive event in N'Djamena to showcase the art co-created with lakeside refugees. This event will also give our trainees from the previous research project an opportunity to showcase new work done in their home countries. This will inform our feasibility study and impact report, as we will evaluate the impact of Ahmed's training (Phase II) in new regional contexts beyond Chad (i.e. Mali, Senegal, Cameroon and Madagascar). The event will also support policy-making and match-funding activities.In addition, this fund will support the collation of audiovisual records of the fieldwork, to be carried out by the PI. The research material amassed during Phases I, II and III will be housed in a new project website, which will include blogs and unpublished material concerning Pas en Avant pedagogy (including a downloadable toolkit). Finally, the artistic research will lead to the production of a novel work of documentary dance, also led by Ahmed and his team of 8 unnamed artists. The piece, entitled "The Drying Prayers", will be presented in Germany, UK, France and Chad, and it will be co-produced by a number of high-profile cultural organisations for maximisation of artistic and cultural impact. This work of documentary dance will provide an opportunity for the realisation of talks and Q&As, so as to engage new academic communities, dance experts, and art researchers from across Europe and Africa.The choreographic work and academic talks will promote the basic conceptual framework of our research, which draws on dance philosophy to construe an embodied understanding of "peace" as creative praxis. The project demonstrates creativity and innovation through promotion of a distinctly Chadian perspective on peace dance, as well as through the development of the emergent medium of documentary dance. The success and legacy of this project is ensured by a trusting relationship built through our continuing work with African experts, scholars, and the participating communities.

这一后续项目响应了社区的需要，即在中非流离失所社区中促进文化促进发展。我们以前的研究已经建立了知识交流（第一阶段）和培训（第二阶段）的能力。我们现在需要澳大利亚人权委员会对影响和参与活动的支持。我们的新焦点是妇女和儿童。这些发展是PI Salazar Sutil和非学术合作伙伴Taigue Ahmed（Ndam Se Na艺术总监）之间长期合作的一部分。Ndam Se Na在难民营开展社区参与工作近15年，通过舞蹈开发了一种独特的社区建设教学法。该项目的重点是位于乍得湖地区的难民专员办事处巴加索拉难民营，这是NSN的一个新的活动领域。该基金支持NSN在乍得和国际上发展和扩大其方法。在乍得湖开展工作的原因更加重要，因为该地区正在经历世界上最大的人道主义危机之一，原因是乍得湖的消失，博科圣地相关暴力加剧了这一问题。该项目将使我们能够通过制定一个新的影响和参与计划，加强以前的研究，同时让新的社区和合作伙伴参与定义和应对上述需求，从而将我们的研究计划推向新的方向。该基金将使一个新的非洲艺术家和研究人员团队能够通过公开招聘招募。该小组将对“和平表演”这一主题进行实践研究，探索艾哈迈德教学法中使用的乍得传统舞蹈中体现的道德价值观。实践者团队将在乍得湖度过三个星期，并将与我们的新焦点小组（妇女和儿童）一起促进节奏和舞蹈研讨会。2019年9月，我们将在恩贾梅纳举办节日活动，展示与湖畔难民共同创作的艺术。本次活动还将为我们以前研究项目的学员提供一个展示他们在本国所做新工作的机会。这将为我们的可行性研究和影响报告提供信息，因为我们将评估艾哈迈德培训（第二阶段）在乍得以外新的区域环境（即马里，塞内加尔，喀麦隆和马达加斯加）中的影响。该活动还将支持政策制定和配对筹资活动，此外，该基金还将支持PI整理实地工作的音像记录。在第一、第二和第三阶段积累的研究材料将存放在一个新的项目网站上，该网站将包括博客和关于“先行”教学法的未发表材料（包括一个可下载的工具包）。最后，艺术研究将导致一个新的纪录片舞蹈作品的生产，也是由艾哈迈德和他的团队的8个无名艺术家。这部名为《干燥的祈祷》的作品将在德国、英国、法国和乍得展出，并将由一些知名的文化组织联合制作，以最大限度地发挥艺术和文化影响。这部纪录片舞蹈作品将提供一个实现讲座和问答的机会，以便吸引来自欧洲和非洲的新学术团体，舞蹈专家和艺术研究人员。舞蹈作品和学术讲座将促进我们研究的基本概念框架，借鉴舞蹈哲学，将“和平”作为创造性实践的具体理解。该项目通过宣传乍得对和平舞蹈的独特观点以及通过发展纪录舞蹈这一新兴媒体，展示了创造力和创新。通过我们与非洲专家、学者和参与社区的持续合作建立的信任关系，确保了该项目的成功和遗产。