Dancing with Memory

Dancing With Memory is an AHRC-funded research project investigating popular dance and cultural memory, led by @DrClareParfitt at University of Chichester.

[Dancing with Memory @DancingwithMem]

The recording of the virtual book launch for ‘Cultural Memory and Popular Dance: Dancing to remember, dancing to forget’ is now on YouTube! See link below 👇🏼@PerformanceWg @Palgrave

[Memory Studies Association @MemStudiesAssoc]

Did you miss our latest dMSA event for the virtual book launch 'Cultural Memory and Popular Dance: Dancing to remember, dancing to forget'? 📚 If so you can find a recording of the event here ➡️
https://t.co/CMjujKRleq

[Dancing with Memory @DancingwithMem]

Please come and celebrate our new edited collection at our Virtual Book Launch on 7th May!👇🏼

[Dr Clare Parfitt @DrClareParfitt]

Please join us to celebrate the publication of the edited collection 'Cultural Memory and Popular Dance: Dancing to remember, dancing to forget' at our Virtual Book Launch on Sat 7th May! Registration: https://t.co/EdO0vvLCdh
YouTube live stream: https://t.co/u1OVETKmci @Palgrave

[Dr Clare Parfitt @DrClareParfitt]

I'm delighted to announce the publication of my edited collection, 'Cultural Memory and Popular Dance: Dancing to Remember, Dancing to Forget'. ToC and abstracts available here: https://t.co/O8kkzIxQXj @antidirndl @DancingwithMem @DeanneStillman2 @andrewhoskins @Palgrave

[Dancing with Memory @DancingwithMem]

Free online conference on dance and memory!

[SDR Dance Research @SocietyDanceRes]

Memoria Saltationis: The Memory of Dance, 5 June.
Conference - free to attend. Take a look at the line up of speakers.

https://t.co/FL7oQmikJa

[Dr Clare Parfitt @DrClareParfitt]

The deadline for the CfP for the Performance and Memory Working Group (@MemStudiesAssoc ) interim event has been extended until 15th Feb 2020! @carmen_levick @MelissaBlancoB @atama001 @PastsStaging

[Dr Clare Parfitt @DrClareParfitt]

This blog post was written in 2017 by my fellow chair of the @MemStudiesAssoc Performance and Memory working group, @carmen_levick. It ends with words by Caryl Churchill on post-revolutionary Romania: 'Things are in democratic order, even if they are in the worst confusion.’

[Dr Clare Parfitt @DrClareParfitt]

I'm co-curating two roundtables on Performance and Memory at the Memory Studies Association conference in Charlottesville next year. Here is our Call for Provocations. Please share widely!

[Dr Melissa Blanco Borelli @MelissaBlancoB]

CNMH decides to edit an exhibit that features memories of communities affected by Colombian armed conflict. They have removed words such as war, resilience and resistance. Achille Mbembe seems apt here. #necropower #censuraalamemoria
#olvidoobligado
#CNMHolvida

[Dancing with Memory @DancingwithMem]

Questions of dance in the wake of traumatic memory.

[In Between Time @In_Between_Time]

“How do you dance after rape and trauma? How do you sing after genocide?" @lyngardner delves into some of the questions explored by international performer and choreographer Dorothée Munyaneza in an #interview with the powerful UNWANTED artist #IBTsummit https://t.co/37bFRHw0w3

[Dancing with Memory @DancingwithMem]

Great thread on understanding the ‘chicken noodle soup’!

[TY BUT DISAGREE @tybutdisagree]

understanding the "chicken noodle soup" | a thread by @elliotsang:

[Simon Sladen @theatrecurator]

We're hiring! Could you be our next Curator of Modern and Contemporary Performance at the @V_and_A? https://t.co/b6lQp9ARiL

[SDR Dance Research @SocietyDanceRes]

Call for Papers: Dance Research, Special Edition, with guest editors Sarah Whatley and Jane Pritchard.

Dance and the Archive, including application deadlines and references

More information on the Society for Dance Research website

https://t.co/oVbUa6aSUV

[Dr Clare Parfitt @DrClareParfitt]

For the whole of April, the Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism is giving free access to a selection of entries on popular dance forms, including one written by me on the cancan! https://t.co/poWyOkVlC3

[Dancing with Memory @DancingwithMem]

Thank you @RachelFensham for including the Dancing with Memory project as a case study in your chapter for the new Bloomsbury Companion to Dance Studies (ed. Sherril Dodds). Very flattered to be considered a "paradigm-shifting research project"! https://t.co/r1a32jeOVE

[Dancing with Memory @DancingwithMem]

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[Modern Showgirl @ModernShowgirl]

The story of Walter Sickert's Tiller Girls paintings: https://t.co/wEEEsrenRr

[Dancing with Memory @DancingwithMem]

First #PoPMovesParis panel! Polyswag and the political potential of fierceness.