The Drying Prayers: Peace Dance from a Central African Perspective

这个后续项目回应了一个社区的需要，即在中非流离失所的社区中促进文化促进发展。我们之前的研究建立了知识交流（第一阶段）和培训（第二阶段）的能力。我们现在要求人权委员会为影响和参与活动提供支持。我们的新焦点群体是妇女和儿童。这些发展是PI Salazar Sutil与非学术合作伙伴Taigue Ahmed （Ndam Se Na艺术总监）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。这个项目的重点是位于乍得湖地区的Baga Sola难民署难民营，这是NSN的一个新的活动领域。该基金将支持诺西的方法在乍得和国际范围内的发展和扩展。由于乍得湖的消失，该区域正经历着世界上最大的人道主义危机之一，与博科圣地有关的暴力加剧了这一问题，因此在乍得湖开展工作的理由就更加重要。这个项目将使我们的研究项目朝着新的方向发展，通过开发一种新的影响和参与计划来加强以前的研究，同时吸引新的社区和合作伙伴来定义和响应上述需求。该基金将通过公开招募的方式，招募一支新的非洲艺术家和研究人员队伍。该团队将对“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周，并将与我们的新焦点群体（妇女和儿童）一起促进节奏和舞蹈讲习班。2019年9月，我们将在恩贾梅纳举办节日活动，展示与湖边难民共同创作的艺术作品。这次活动也将给我们以前研究项目的学员一个展示他们在本国完成的新工作的机会。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（即马里、塞内加尔、喀麦隆和马达加斯加）以外的新区域背景下的影响。该活动还将支持政策制定和配对筹资活动。此外，该基金将支助由PI进行的实地工作视听记录的整理工作。第一阶段、第二阶段和第三阶段积累的研究资料将放在一个新的项目网站上，该网站将包括博客和有关Pas en Avant教学法的未发表材料（包括可下载的工具包）。最后，艺术研究将导致一部新的纪录片舞蹈作品的制作，同样由Ahmed和他的8位无名艺术家团队领导。这幅名为“干燥的祈祷者”的作品将在德国、英国、法国和乍得展出，并将由多家知名文化机构联合制作，以最大限度地发挥艺术和文化影响力。这项纪录舞蹈作品将提供一个实现对话和问答的机会，从而吸引来自欧洲和非洲的新学术界，舞蹈专家和艺术研究人员。编舞工作和学术讲座将促进我们研究的基本概念框架，即利用舞蹈哲学来解释对“和平”的具体理解作为创造性实践。该项目通过推广独特的乍得和平舞蹈视角，以及通过发展纪录片舞蹈这一新兴媒介，展示了创造力和创新精神。通过我们与非洲专家、学者和参与社区的持续合作，建立了信任关系，确保了这个项目的成功和遗产。

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.