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October 2020
Decolonising the Curriculum: Where do we start?
Following on his Windrush Day Lecture, Professor Stephen Small explores how education and academia can start to examine the accountability, systematic racism, untold perspectives and ignored history. As we reconsider what is being taught and how it is being taught, and where we start the process of decolonising the curriculum. Ticket provides access to the lecture and a digital copy of Professor Stephen Small’s extended Windrush Day Lecture. With the support with Stephen Lawrence Research Centre and Windrush Fund.
Find out more »LDIF21 Preview Festival Pass
Support LDIF and Serendipity by purchasing an LDIF21 Preview Festival Pass. All LDIF21 Preview events, with the exception of Online Masterclasses are available online, free of charge, for 24 hours from the advertised start time. For a donation of £10, you will have access to all of the festival content (except the Masterclasses) until Sunday 8 November. During this time, you will be able to revisit any event as many times as you like, at any time during the period…
Find out more »The Big Debate: Where is Dance Now?
COVID-19 has seen dance studios close, rehearsals suspended and stages kept in the dark, amidst this, alternative creative projects utilising digital media have flourished and the sector is starting to emerge and envisage what the post-COVID future of dance might be. But where is dance now? What impact has COVID-19 had on dance training? Who has access to dance? How have dancers and choreographers been affected? An international with nora chipaumire, Jonzi D, Sharon Watson and Javier Torres, with additional…
Find out more »Black British Dance Platform
Choreographer Jean Abreu presents an extract of his internationally acclaimed full length work Solo for Two which explores themes of identity, migration, duality, brokenness and rebirth in a form of a physical lament. Jean Abreu worked closely with Belgian dance dramaturg Guy Cools to develop a dance language that reflects how a migratory identity is created by cycles of loss, letting go and new beginnings. Solo for Two looks at the notion of ‘origin’ not as a fixed point in…
Find out more »Thomas Prestø Online Masterclass
Thomas Prestø is the founder of Tabanka Dance Ensemble and the creator of Talawa TechniqueTM. His work seamlessly merges ancestral movement, culturally contextualised vocabulary and Africana movement sensibilities. Prestø is intimate with indigenous Caribbean and African Spiritual practices in Haiti, Trinidad, Cuba and Nigeria respectively, pulling from these practices both in his theoretical, practical and artistic approaches.
Find out more »Léna Blou Online Masterclass
A researcher, choreographer, dancer and teacher, Léna Blou’s work is part of a growing pedagogy for modern Caribbean dance practice. Nourished by Gwoka aesthetics and contemporary movement, Léna has developed ‘Techni’ka’ and the concept ‘bigidi’ which she teaches at the Dance and Choreographic Studies Centre in Pointe-á-Pitre, Guadeloupe and through master classes. Facilitated by Gladys M Francis.
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