A partnership between Movema and Cheshire Dance, the Wildfire Rising Associate Artist Development Programme Wildfire Rising Year 2 presents the Inquiring Bodies Series.
Inquiring Bodies is a full day event by dance artists, for dance artists. Inquiring Bodies feature guest artists who identify as Global Majority who invite others to engage in their current research, the questions they’re asking themselves and their emerging interests.
Inquiring Bodies creates a mutually supportive environment for dance exploration and open dialogue.
This event will take place in Salford at The New Adelphi Building.
Free to all artists; £100 bursaries are available to Global Majority Dance Artists.
To attend, please complete the following 2 forms:
For questions or queries, please contact: connor@cheshiredance.org
To find out more about Wildfire Rising, click here to Discover Year One and click here to Discover Year Two. For an overview of the full programme, head here.
*’Global Majority’ “refers to people who are Black, Asian, Brown, dual-heritage, indigenous to the global south, and or have been racialised as ‘ethnic minorities’. Globally, these groups currently represent approximately eighty per cent (80%) of the world’s population making them the global majority now” (Rosemary Campbell-Stephens MBE 2020 in Global Majority; Decolonising the language and Reframing the Conversation about Race.
Read more here.
‘Wildfire Rising’ is an associate artist programme from Cheshire Dance and Movema that looks to remove barriers of inequality by investing in and supporting dance artists from African, South, East and South East Asian diasporas to make way for the rising of their artistry, representation and development.
Inquiring Bodies is a full day event by dance artists, for dance artists in a mutually supportive environment for dance exploration and open dialogue.
Movema celebrates diversity through dance, creating safe spaces for different communities to come together and learn about each other through high-quality arts experiences.
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Arts Council England is the national development agency for creativity and culture. Cheshire Dance is a National Portfolio Organisation of Arts Council England.
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