Dance Umbrella UK offer for Mdx students

 

The UK Dance Umbrella Festival is coming up in a couple of weeks and as Middlesex ACI Students you are able to use a discount code which means you will have exclusive access to all of Dance Umbrella's digital festival content online for FREE!

Please follow the instructions below to get your digital pass. We strongly encourage you all to take advantage of this and see/engage with as much as you can- digital and live where possible!

 

 

With September now upon us we’re excited that it’s nearly Dance Umbrella Festival time. We hope you, your students and staff will enjoy our programme of digital performances, in-conversations, articles and discussions.  Don’t miss Choreographer’s Cut with Claire Cunningham, Nora Chipaumire and Eddie Ladd; brand new digital performances from Jade Hackett and SAY; in-conversations, a panel discussion, articles and Dimitris Papaioannou’s Nowhere – the first time this full edit of the filmed version has been released online.  Explore the digital events below and we can’t wait for you to join us this October!   Middlesex University Digital Pass For 2021 we are pleased to be piloting a Digital Pass with your institution, which will give you exclusive access to all digital content within this year’s festival. Content will be released throughout the festival, and once live, all content will be available on demand until Sunday 31 October*. The promo code MIDDLESEX gives you this content for FREE. To activate the code, select the minimum price (£5), which will be discounted when you enter your code. Having trouble? Please check out our FAQs * with the exception of Dimitris Papaioannou's Nowhere, which is available until Sunday 24 October Get Digital Pass Watch the 2021 Festival trailer  Choreographer’s Cut Online from Friday 8 October, 10am BST  Step inside the mind of a choreographer as Nora Chipaumire, Claire Cunningham and Eddie Ladd give an in-depth commentary on a recent work and discuss their creative process with Dance Umbrella’s Artistic Director and Chief Executive Freddie Opoku-Addaie.   Give Them Their Flowers | artists in conversation with Jade Hackett Online from Friday 8 October, 10am BST  Join performer, actress and choreographer Jade Hackett as she shines a spotlight on five artists who have and continue to make significant contributions to the dance world today: Ash Mukherjee, Kev ‘Renegade’ Gopie, Liza Vallance, Phillip Chbeeb and Shelley Maxwell.    Articles | Sonny Nwachukwu, Jade Hackett Online from Friday 8 October, 10am BST  Read new articles from writer, director, and performer Sonny Nwachukwu and performer, actress and choreographer Jade Hackett.   Nowhere | Dimitris Papaioannou Online from Monday 11 October, 5pm BST  Join Dance Umbrella as we present Dimitris Papaioannou’s iconic production NOWHERE – a filmed version of the original stage production. Don’t miss this exciting opportunity to see the full edit released online for the very first time.    London Battle | conceived and created by Jade Hackett  Online from Thursday 14 October, 5pm BST  Bringing together some of the most exciting talent from London’s hip-hop dance scene, London Battle is a celebration of the capital’s globally renowned dance and music culture. Witness dancers go head-to-head with a diverse range of styles to create a thrilling digital dance performance.    SAY: AF (And Friends) Online from Monday 18 October, 5pm BST  SAY: AF (And Friends) is a dance film collaboration produced by Dance Umbrella between dance artists Sarah Golding and Yukiko Masui and an exciting range of music artist collaborators. Merging dance influences, SAY create their own unique dance style.   Panel Discussion | curated and hosted by Valerie Ebuwa Live discussion via Zoom on Wednesday 20 October, 11.30am BST  Join DU for an online panel discussion curated and hosted by freelance dance artist, activist, writer and model Valerie Ebuwa.   Explore our live festival performances

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Module Three - schedule change

 Module Three's I appreciate the timing of most of your sessions this term were not great for the majority of you and so have made some adjustments as follows to allow as many as possible to attend and engage in real-time discussions -

This week: 

session one: Research terms - what are you doing - will take place on THURSDAY SEPT 30, 9AM (UK)  NOT WEDNESDAY 29TH

session four: Artefact, presentation and report -  to remain MONDAY NOV 15, 1PM (UK)  and be REPEATED ON TUESDAY NOV 16, 7PM (UK)- This is session is something of a practice run for your oral presentations, discussing your research journeys with each other and offering feedback hence repeated for all to attend one session.

All sessions will be recorded and blog posts as usual encouraged for continuing conversations and joining those you were not able to be a part of. Please appreciate that scheduling is taking into account the global spread of students on this module from the US, UK/Europe, China, UAE and beyond.

Module One - Areas of Learning discussion

 Thank you to all that were able to make the Module One session today - we had a great discussion around Areas of Learning - you are asked to identify and discuss through critical reflection, three areas of your past learning experiences that you see as significant in/in shaping your practice today. 

Some of the areas that came up included;

Injury - shifting perceptions/expectations

Vulnerability

Self- Pressure

Personal/Professional Ethics

Improvisation / play

Techniques as umbrella concepts for Areas of Learning

Time Management / Planning / Organisation

Embracing Uncertainty

Change and Responsiveness

 

 There were others and some great space made within the conversations for different voices and perspectives. 

 

Pedro offered the great analogy of the process of identifying and unpacking and re-looking at your Areas of Learning being a dance - fluid, in motion, in the relationships between parts...

 

Those that were a part of the conversation do share more of your thinking through your blogs for others to join the converation - comment below with the blog from this discussion...

This session was recorded and will be available on your BAPP ACI programme page within 24hrs