Dancing Dialogues: Networking research with traditional English and diasporic dance groups practising in South West, South East and Midlands England.

舞蹈对话：与在英格兰西南部、东南部和中部地区练习的传统英语和侨民舞蹈团体进行网络研究。

• 批准号: AH/Y000153/1
• 负责人: Libby Worth
• 金额: $ 3万
• 依托单位: Royal Holloway University of London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FY000153%2F1
• 关键词: Dancing; Dialogues; Networking; research; traditional

Dancing and dancers are at the heart of this proposed practice-based network that seeks greater understanding of traditional/folk/national dance forms currently practiced in England. Engaging key current research trajectories of diaspora, community, regionality, and urban cultures and identities, this project recognises and values the breadth of dance practices taking place under the headings of 'traditional', 'folk', 'regional' and 'national', and will foreground their complex, often contested, associations and histories. Our network will develop research with traditional dance groups active within three selected areas of England (South East, Midlands and South West). There are many such groups operating in halls and community centres throughout these regions that are currently under researched. These include largely amateur companies based in England from a range of diasporic communities maintaining their cultural identities such as Polish, Ecuadorian, Irish, Spanish and South African groups, together with local regional dancers of, for instance, Cornish step, Morris, sword and clog dance. As national borders close, and with increased global interdependence, we ask: what role do distinct traditional and national dances play for diasporic communities in negotiating embodied identity in England today? How are notions of regional location, site, and geography central to extending our understanding of dance as contextual to the idea of 'Englishness'? How have groups adapted, created, and survived during and post the Covid 19 pandemic? How do traditional dance groups actively contribute to creativity and community? The project will develop research in three stages. Initial questionnaires circulated widely to traditional dance groups active in each of the three regions will invite inclusion on an interactive online map supported by tech and software company IN2. With this we aim to locate the number and range of dance groups operating in each of the selected areas. There has been no systematic attempt to capture this information in England previously, nor how it relates to understandings of 'Englishness'. Dance groups will be able to upload their online profiles to support group interaction and further research engagement. Working with our partners and supported by an experienced advisory group the website details will be circulated through dance festivals and associations and linked to related websites. In the second stage researchers based in each of the regions will lead visits to self-selecting groups that have expressed interest in sharing their practices. Libby Worth (PI based in SE region), Jerri Daboo (Co-I in SW region) and Midlands consultant Rosemary Cisneros will extend the network through face-to-face interaction, interviews and discussion with groups. This will culminate in an online symposium that addresses the project aims through dancer panels, video analysis, presentations and keynotes. We will invite academics' contributions from related disciplines such as, ethnomusicology, material culture, memory studies, heritage studies, religious studies and social cultural geography. The final stage will trial an original methodology in a workshop hosted by EFDSS at Cecil Sharp House in London. Two to three dancers from self-selecting groups in each region will be invited to meet to show and share steps and dance experiences. This day of 'dancing dialogues' is envisioned as trialling an embodied process that could be developed and offered regionally and internationally. It will provide an opportunity for dancers to share their steps and the stories of their dances to better understand how creative activity contributes to regional, national and diasporic cultural identity. This both fulfils dancers' expressed desire to meet with each other and supports greater academic research in this terrain. The project will complete with an open access web report and co-written research article.

舞蹈和舞者是这个以实践为基础的网络的核心，该网络旨在更好地了解目前在英格兰实行的传统/民间/民族舞蹈形式。参与散居，社区，区域性和城市文化和身份的关键当前研究轨迹，该项目承认并重视在“传统”，“民间”，“区域”和“民族”标题下发生的舞蹈实践的广度，并将突出其复杂的，经常有争议的，协会和历史。 我们的网络将与活跃在英格兰三个选定地区（东南，中部和西南）的传统舞蹈团体开展研究。目前正在对这些地区的霍尔斯和社区中心内的许多这类团体进行研究。其中包括总部设在英格兰的业余剧团，它们来自波兰、厄瓜多尔、爱尔兰、西班牙和南非等保持其文化特征的散居社区，以及当地的康沃尔语、莫里斯舞、剑舞和木屐舞等舞蹈。 随着国家边界的关闭，并与全球相互依存度的增加，我们问：什么样的角色做不同的传统和民族舞蹈发挥散居社区在谈判体现身份在今天的英格兰？区域位置、地点和地理的概念如何成为我们对舞蹈的理解的核心，并将其与“英语”的概念联系起来？在2019冠状病毒病大流行期间和之后，群体如何适应、创造和生存？传统舞蹈团体如何积极地为创造力和社区做出贡献？该项目将分三个阶段开展研究。最初的问卷广泛分发给活跃在这三个地区的传统舞蹈团体，邀请他们加入由科技和软件公司IN 2支持的互动在线地图。这样，我们的目标是找到在每个选定的地区经营的舞蹈团体的数量和范围。在此之前，英国并没有系统地试图捕捉这些信息，也没有系统地试图捕捉这些信息与“英语”的理解之间的关系。舞蹈团体将能够上传他们的在线资料，以支持团体互动和进一步的研究参与。与我们的合作伙伴合作，并得到经验丰富的咨询小组的支持，网站的详细信息将通过舞蹈节和协会分发，并链接到相关网站。在第二阶段，每个区域的研究人员将带头访问表示有兴趣分享其做法的自选团体。利比沃思（PI总部设在东南地区），杰里达布（Co-I在西南地区）和米德兰顾问迷迭香西斯内罗斯将通过面对面的互动，采访和讨论小组扩大网络。这将在一个在线研讨会上达到高潮，该研讨会通过舞者小组，视频分析，演示和主题演讲来解决项目目标。我们将邀请相关学科的学者，如民族音乐学，物质文化，记忆研究，遗产研究，宗教研究和社会文化地理学。 最后阶段将在EFDSS在伦敦的塞西尔夏普大厦主办的一个讲习班上试用一种原始方法。每个地区的自选团体将邀请两到三名舞者见面，展示和分享舞步和舞蹈经验。这一天的“舞蹈对话”被设想为试验一个具体的过程，可以开发和提供区域和国际。它将为舞者提供一个机会，分享他们的舞步和舞蹈故事，以更好地了解创造性活动如何促进区域、国家和散居地的文化特性。这既满足了舞者表达的彼此见面的愿望，又支持了这一领域更大的学术研究。该项目将完成一个开放获取的网络报告和共同撰写的研究文章。