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SUMMARY:Towards an Anti-Racist Dance Research
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DESCRIPTION:In this talk we reflect\, as two colleagues and friends\, on 
 expectations\, doubts\, and discoveries arising from our collaborative\,
  anti-racist research project on contemporary dance in the UK. “Contempo
 rary Dance and Whiteness” was funded by a British Academy/Leverhulme Sma
 ll Grant and undertaken in 2019 by Simon Ellis (Coventry University)\, R
 oyona Mitra (Brunel University London)\, and Arabella Stanger (Universit
 y of Sussex). The project set out to understand the covert cultures of w
 hite supremacy structuring a field of practice that has formed itself ar
 ound values of artistic freedom\, equality and inclusion. Faced\, at the
  close of the project timeline\, with our funding body’s expectations th
 at we report on “any advances in knowledge or understanding resulting fr
 om the research”\, in this talk we begin from a place of stumbling over 
 the imperialist implications of ideas such as ‘advancement’\, ‘knowledge
 ’ and ‘result’. Instead we ask: how might we work to unsettle the racist
  mechanisms of knowledge production and dissemination naturalised in Bri
 tish academia\, and in which we are complicit\, despite what we thought 
 were our commitments to anti-racist research?\n\nAdvocating for a critic
 al understanding of dance driven by lived experiences of oppression\, co
 nflict and struggle\, we take up activist and scholarly critiques of not
 ions of equality\, diversity and inclusion (EDI)\, a paradigm that autho
 rises the active obstruction of racial justice in both academic inquirie
 s and industrial policy-making in relation to dance\, race and racism. M
 otivated by such critiques\, here we try out a mode of listening and thi
 nking together that aims for mutual honesty about our project’s own obst
 ruction of racial justice in its perpetuation of extractive modes of thi
 nking\, collaboration\, administration and dissemination. Through these 
 reflections we wonder how an anti-racist dance research could really wor
 k\, moving towards modalities of practice that centre scepticism over ce
 lebration\, struggle over harmony\, activism over conciliation\, and the
  aim of becoming accomplices over allies.\n\nRead more about the Contemp
 orary Dance and Whiteness collaborative research project here: http://da
 nceandwhiteness.coventry.ac.uk/ \n\nThis event will be delivered over Zo
 om. Please register on Eventbrite for details.
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