Rebecca Stancliffe

The project team includes a conventional researcher, a somatic filmmaker, a composer, and six lived experience experts with experience, talent and interest in practices including writing, drawing, collage, yoga, somatic practice, drama, music and... tea drinking

#ChronicPain #ArtsBasedResearch

We use Zoom as the 'studio' for our research to accommodate our health needs. We meet online once a fortnight to develop our practice and use Padlet to work asynchronously outside of scheduled sessions. We are exploring how to work together in online spaces.

#ChronicPain #Zoom #ArtsAndHealth

For this project, film serves as a creative medium for documenting, editing and sharing the material generated through our process, and we embrace the poetic device of storytelling to focus on the lived experience of chronic pain.

#ChronicPain #ArtsBasedResearch #SomaticPractice

The Language of Pain collective met this week to start work on a new creative project - to create a multimedia film that articulates and expresses subjective and collective experiences of living with chronic illness and pain.

#ChronicPain #ArtsBasedResearch #SomaticPractice

Delighted to share that my book on #VideoAnnotation is now out!

It focuses on video annotation as a manual method of analysis, indexation, and publication for performance practices

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Robert Quinn

“Truth-seeking is at the heart of higher education. As public support erodes and scholars face growing threats, there has never been a more urgent time to rally and defend academic freedom.” ✊

Robert Quinn, Scholars at risk at our joint academic freedom conference with @eduinternational.bsky.social

As I make the final edits to my first book, I am forever grateful for the contributions of my cats, without whom the process would be quicker and easier.

Calling dance for health practitioners...

My MFA student is seeking participants for a survey about the experiences of dance for health practitioners.

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Participants needed for a study exploring the motivations and skills of dance for health practitioners. - Participants who are 18 years or older - Have been teaching or co- teaching a dance for health class for at least 1 year - Have taught or co-taught a minimum of 5 sessions in the prior calendar year

Calling dance for health practitioners...

My MFA student is seeking participants for a survey about the experiences of dance for health practitioners.

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I had the pleasure of working with a fabulous group of lived experience experts on The Language of Pain, creative research that used the arts to explore the expression of pain narratives.

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#ChronicPain #ChronicIllness #ParticipatoryResearch

(PDF) 'A Story in Itself': The Artist-Researcher and Performative Dissemination PDF | Beyond the Walls is a piece of artist-research choreographed and performed by dance artists Lucy Evans and Stella Howard from Trinity Laban... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ...

'A Story in Itself': The Artist-Researcher and Performative Dissemination

#EmbodiedSelfhood
#KinestheticEmpathy
#Artist-Research
#Dementia
#ExperientialVoice

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Home - Lisa Ullmann Travelling Scholarship Fund Registered Charity 1203903  Original image from Jason Mabana Dedalo Project …

Applications for the Lisa Ullmann Travelling Scholarship Fund are open.

LUTSF supports individuals working in all areas of movement and dance who wish to travel to enrich their professional practice.

Deadline to apply is 31 January 2025.
lutsf.org.uk

Festive half marathon complete ✔️

13.1 miles of stunning coastline, marshes, and common around Portsmouth and Eastney

A great atmosphere and good selection of fuel station treats 🤤

Producing Dance Network: Sector call out - Arts Professional Do you make dance happen? We want to hear from you! Producers in organisations or independent, the subsidised or commercial sectors, self-producing artists, all those with a role in making dance happen...

New event: Producing Dance Network: Sector call out from Future Ecologies: Producing Dance Network (FE:PDN). Do you make dance happen? We want to hear from you.

YouTube video by Claire Cunningham Claire Cunningham - Songs of the Wayfarer

Last week I saw Claire Cunningham's "Songs of the Wayfarer" at Lilian Baylis Studio. I was inspired by the accessible and inclusive framing: relaxed viewing, introducing the sound and lighting levels the audience would encounter...A brilliant performance, beautiful choreography tinyurl.com/2m5yv245

Home - Lisa Ullmann Travelling Scholarship Fund Registered Charity 1203903  Original image from Jason Mabana Dedalo Project …

Lisa Ullmann Travelling Scholarship Fund opens soon!

The aim of this small charity is to provide financial support to individuals who wish to travel to attend a conference, pursue a research project or undertake a short course of study in the field of movement or dance.

lutsf.org.uk

As *a* workshop suggested

Hi Sorcha, thanks for setting this up. Would love to be added 😊

It was great couple of days. Enjoyed listening to Emily Kenway's (author of Who Cares) keynote, participated in a wonderful workshop on Play, and had lots of interesting conversations ☺️

#FestivalOfCare Technologies can have positive implications for healthcare, but what about 'care'? It matters that interrelationality becomes an illusion, but who does it matter for? Delegating care to non-human agents risks losing what it means to be human, overlooking the invisible.

#FestivalOfCare Technological 'solutions' transform relation to the body, care, society. In 2019, the UK government spent £34million to develop carebots (Who Cares, 2023), but the 'necessity' emerges from the chronic underfunding of the health and social care sector.

#FestivalOfCare A key takeaway was the danger of viewing technological progress as inherently positive. Carebots do not have 'embodied presence' as the workshop suggested. The delegation of care to non-human agents is seen as more efficient, but at what cost?

#FestivalOfCare at The Whitford, Manchester considered: What happens when we consider care a craft or an artful practice? A uniting theme was invisibility (invisible labour, experiences, tacit knowledge) and how we experience, recognise, and give 'voice' to or share these. tinyurl.com/yskbntsk

I'm currently exploring video-supported learning in dance technique classes using video livestream and live annotation.

YouTube has closed my account for 'violating community guidelines'. Their automated review systems have confused contemporary dance with inappropriate content. I mean.... what?

First time posting on Bluesky.
Looking forward to reconnecting after quite some time away from Twitter.
Current research #CreativeHealth #ChronicPain #CoProducedResearch #ParticipatoryResearch #DigitalLearning

Are you a UK artist/creative practitioner interested in using immersive technologies in your work: #MR #VR #AR #XR #haptics #binaural + more?

Immersive Arts is offering grants to artists at different stages of development: Explore (£5k), Experiment (£20k) &Expand (£50k).

⏰ Apply by 2 December.