Keynote presentation this Friday at Mdx live streamed...

We are so excited to have Dr. Thomas F. DeFrantz giving the Keynote at our symposium on Friday...

Queering the Somatic: Interrupting the Narrative 

Dr DeFrantz will be speaking from 1-2pm (UK time)

If you would like to hear him please comment below and we will make a Skype group to call you in as we live stream the presentation to you...

Different situations create the BAPP Learning Environment

In his book 'Knowing Knowledge' George Seimens talks about Learning Domains

In this course, we create the situation for all four of the domains he discusses in this course. But it is the combination of the four that is the Learning Environment of BAPP. The dance, the music, the play, the yoga class are made of a combination of elements and so is the learning environment of BAPP. 

Transmission Learning- The learner is brought into a system through lectures and exposed to ‘facts’.  The Unihub and Module Handbooks do this.

Emergence Learning– involves greater emphasis on the learner’s cognition and reflection. What you do with the UniHub and Handbooks and Blogs, and Skypes and conversations with your Supervisor.

Acquisition Domain– learning is exploratory and inquiry-based. This has to be self-directed (because it is your practice not anyone else’s) but self-directed does not mean alone you need to remain connected through sharing ideas (on blogs, in Skype discussions etc…). You explore this domain through looking at what you have done in the past (and writing past learning in Module One), looking at your current practice and how the course and ideas you encounter connect with it, through carrying out a project based inquiry. Sometimes you are considering all three at once (if you are in Module Three for instance).

Accretion Learning– is continuous, the learner forages for knowledge when and where it is needed – Real life and ongoing. This is shared through your blog – which is why your blog is so important to keep contributing to and why commenting on others people’s blogs is so helpful to them. 

Across all this ‘relevance’is crucial to look at critically.  This returns us to thinking about what truth, deception, distraction and fact mean to you/do to you. 

Lastly feedback (to each other on blogs and back and forth with your Supervisor) becomes a conversation - ongoing and not as set of instructions to get an 'A'. Go back to 'The Test'  in my blog on September 17th 2019 for John Green to explain that again...

Here is a video made about Connectivism which is the overarching idea for the network of learning domains. 

Please comment below....

Campus Session (NOTE TIME CHANGE)

Wednesday Oct 30th

BAPP campus session

12:30-3pm

Room is in Vine Building (behind the library building) V101

Comment below to indicate which one you will attend. Please also give a sentence or two about what you have been thinking about/doing. This will help us plan the session.

Discussion group: Wednesday October 16th

Discussion Skypes are open for all, this is a time to share reflections, things you've looked at, thought about, discuss your study with other people who are doing the same thing - BAPP.

Start your day off Skype  8:15am (time in London)
or
End your day Skype 9pm (time in London) 

Comment below to indicate which one you will attend. Please also give a sentence or two about what you have been thinking about/doing. This will help us plan the discussion.

Re:Generations conference November 7th - 9th (Manchester) reminder

Try and attend there will workshops, papers and performances:
https://www.onedanceuk.org/event/regenerations-2019/

Student Voice

Please consider being a student leader by being one of the Student Voice Leaders for BAPP. This means consulting with other people on the programme and feedback string points and things that have developed and things that still need development.

https://www.mdxsu.com/studentvoiceleaders

If you become a Student Voice Leader you get some leadership training from the Student Union and of course you can admit to your CV as a responsibility you took on.

Student Voice Meeting where you feedback to the University is the week of February17th 2020 (so if you are Module Three it might not be for you as you might have graduated by February)

Please comment below

Symposium - Queering the somatic Nov 1st & 2nd (London)

Try and attend there will workshops, papers and performances:

Queering the Somatic: Interrupting the Narrative Symposium 1^st and 2^ndNovember 2019. 

About the Symposium:

Dance can be seen as a critical way of being in the world. For us dance emphasises the felt over the ‘named’, dispelling binaries and challenging Western constructs of the passive body. Queer theory is a field of critical thinking emerging in the early 1990’s drawing on feminism and queer studies to challenge social constructs and identities. Moving beyond the social constructs of the body both dance and queer theory offer a fluidity for narrating the lived experience; narrations that interrupt dominant stories of identity and how we move through the world.

Queering the somatic offers opportunities to explore, challenge and celebrate the act of dispelling binaries: mind-body, male-female, subject-object. 

The symposium is looking for contributions that might re-imagine, re-educate, re-think, reveal and allow us to re-create a world without the limits of binaries that reflect the somatic experience of Being in the world. 

Queering the Somaticis the third somatic symposium curated by Dr Adesola Akinleye and Helen Kindred, following Wright-ing the Somatic(2016), 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sh_fNd_jys&t=17s

and Narrating the Somatic(2018),

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_e1md6ejfK0

We hope; ‘Let’s imagine together we have all the money in the world and let’s let go of black and white, gay and straight, theory and practice and that all the gatekeepers have flung the doors open. Let’s focus on the arts, the practice and sharing. Understanding the world for a moment through someone else’s eyes’ (Akinleye, A. 2018)

Book a ticket using the MDX on-line store

Twilight discussions -

In the Twilight conversations we talked about a range of ideas. please see peoples blog post. One idea that was significant was the idea of the importance of having different perspectives. Not to 'agree' with them but to understand your own position better by understanding others positions. Here is a really interesting video about perspectives.

Collaboration ... learning

This blog post is about collaboration. Here is a video of an art work. As someone who makes community based site specific dance work I see this as art. It could also be an tourist marketing product!!

Have a look at this and then watch the video below that about collaboration. I am suggesting this because it is a way of revealing how the material (the professional artifact of the art work/first video) is another way of engaging with the theory (in the second video). Often the artistry we do is the embodiment of the theory talked about.

Letting go of dominating and welcoming making together...Learning to learning involves collaboration and interdependency. 

The making of...

Re:Generations - dance and the Digital Space - One Month away!!

Thursday 7^thto Saturday 9^th  at the Lowry Manchester, UK

Conference Re:Generations 

Workshops, discussion & performances.

Come along if you are in North of UK next month. BAPP and MAPP Alumni will be presenting work. Come along and support and exchange ideas. 

Hosted in partnership by One Dance UK, IRIE! dance theatre, Middlesex University, Dance Immersion, Canada and The Lowry, the theme for Re:generations 2019 is dance and the digital space. We will explore the ways digital technologies can be used for artistic innovation and creative practise, unite global communities through online platforms whilst increasing the visibility of diverse work to mainstream audiences.

Across the three days there will be panel discussions, lecture demonstrations, masterclasses, workshops, academic paper presentations, performances, networking events and more!

Get tickets here: 
https://www.onedanceuk.org/programme/dance-of-the-african-diaspora/building-global-networks/regenerations-international-conference/

Campus Session

Friday Oct 11^th

London BAPP campus session

12 - 3pm 

The Room number is CG83 

Comment below to indicate which one you will attend. Please also give a sentence or two about what you have been thinking about/doing. This will help us plan the session.

Monday Module One focus

Today we talked about Practice -our Practice. Module One is about articulating refining noticing reflecting on what you see as your practice. In the discussion we found for some people they are their practice and for others their practice involves a persona. We thought about how teachers, colleagues  and other past experiences have shaped what our practices are today. We also thought about the ethical choices and values that manIfest in our practices. 

Module One us really about peeling away your Practice from the background of your everyday activity and routines. People attending are commenting below with links to posts about the discussion. 

What are your thoughts? Please comment below ...

Queering the Somatic: Interrupting the Narrative - One Month away!

Friday Nov 1st & Saturday Nov  2nd  (at Middlesex University, Hendon London UK)

Helen and I are curating the Symposium 'Queering the Somatic: interrupting the narrative.' 

There will be workshops and discussion, some MAPP and BAPP alumni will be presenting work - come along and support them if you are near London (or make a trip to attend). 

Queering the Somatic: Interrupting the Narrative Symposium 1^st and 2^ndNovember 2019. Dance can be seen as a critical way of being in the world. For us dance emphasises the felt over the ‘named’, dispelling binaries and challenging Western constructs of the passive body. Queer theory is a field of critical thinking emerging in the early 1990’s drawing on feminism and queer studies to challenge social constructs and identities. Moving beyond the social constructs of the body both dance and queer theory offer a fluidity for narrating the lived experience; narrations that interrupt dominant stories of identity and how we move through the world.

Queering the somatic offers opportunities to explore, challenge and celebrate the act of dispelling binaries: mind-body, male-female, subject-object. 

The symposium is looking for contributions that might re-imagine, re-educate, re-think, reveal and allow us to re-create a world without the limits of binaries that reflect the somatic experience of Being in the world. 

Queering the Somaticis the third somatic symposium curated by Dr Adesola Akinleye and Helen Kindred, following Wright-ing the Somatic(2016), 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sh_fNd_jys&t=17s

and Narrating the Somatic(2018),

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_e1md6ejfK0

We hope; ‘Let’s imagine together we have all the money in the world and let’s let go of black and white, gay and straight, theory and practice and that all the gatekeepers have flung the doors open. Let’s focus on the arts, the practice and sharing. Understanding the world for a moment through someone else’s eyes’ (Akinleye, A. 2018)