The Drying Prayers: Peace Dance from a Central African Perspective

这一后续项目满足了社区的需要，即在中部非洲流离失所的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AHRC为影响和接触活动提供支持。我们新的重点群体是妇女和儿童。这些发展是PiSalazar Sutil和非学术合作伙伴Taigue Ahmed(Ndam Se Na的艺术总监)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，通过舞蹈发展了一种独特的社区建设教学方法。该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的一个新活动领域。该基金正在乍得国内和国际上支持NSN方法的发展和扩展。鉴于乍得湖的消失，该地区正在经历世界上最大的人道主义危机之一，而博科圣地的暴力事件加剧了这一问题，因此在乍得湖开展工作的理由更加重要。该项目将使我们能够通过制定一项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确定和回应上述需求，从而使我们的研究方案朝着新的方向发展。这一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募集招募。该小组将对“和平表演”这一主题进行实践研究，探索在艾哈迈德的教学中使用的乍得传统舞蹈中体现的伦理价值。实践者小组将在乍得湖度过三个星期，并将促进与我们新的重点小组(妇女和儿童)举办节奏和舞蹈讲习班。2019年9月，我们将在恩贾梅纳举办一场节日活动，展示与湖边难民共同创作的艺术。本次活动还将为我们先前研究项目的学员提供一个机会，展示他们在本国所做的新工作。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)在乍得以外的新地区(即马里、塞内加尔、喀麦隆和马达加斯加)的影响。该活动还将支持政策制定和配对资助活动。此外，该基金还将支持由国际和平协会进行的实地考察视听记录的整理工作。在第一、第二和第三阶段收集的研究材料将存放在一个新的项目网站上，其中将包括博客和有关先锋教学法的未出版材料(包括一个可下载的工具包)。最后，艺术研究将导致制作一部新的纪录片舞蹈作品，也是由艾哈迈德和他的8名未透露姓名的艺术家团队领导的。这部名为《烘干的祈祷》的作品将在德国、英国、法国和乍得展出，并将由多个知名文化组织联合制作，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机会来实现谈话和问答，从而吸引来自欧洲和非洲的新的学术界、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，这一框架借鉴舞蹈哲学，将“和平”的具体理解解释为创造性的实践。该项目通过宣传乍得人对和平舞的独特看法，以及通过发展新兴的纪实舞蹈媒介，展示了创造性和创新性。这个项目的成功和遗产是通过我们与非洲专家、学者和参与社区的持续工作建立起来的信任关系来确保的。

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.