The Moving Online Symposium took place on 30th January 2025.
Here are the recordings from the day which include BSL. You can see the event description below.
Welcome and Introduction to Moving Online
Hetty Blades, Vipavinee Artpradid and Lily Hayward-Smith present the Moving Online Project, its aims and objectives, activities that have taken place and final outcomes of the project.
Panel One: Preservation and Transmission
Examining the incorporation by Iranian dance of conventional methods in digital settings Presenter: Shahriar Khonsari
40 years of Phoenix Dance Theatre: connecting knowledge through archive, oral history and repertoire Presenter: Laura Griffiths Chair: Karen Wood
Panel Two: Legacy, Lineage and Pedagogy
Who owns the dance photograph?: licensing from analogue to digital Presenter: Rachel Fensham
Productising Indian Dance: The Digital Learning and Distribution Culture by Natyasutra Online Presenter: Swetha Mangalath
Chair: Kathryn Stamp
Panel Three Ownership, Aesthetics and Materiality
The Dance of Copyright! Presenter: Trupti Panigrahi
What is the materiality of dance existing between online presence, scores, copyright and cultural capital? Presenter: Renate Bräuninger
Shifting Dance Stages: an analysis of the work developed by collective (LA) Horde Presenter: Raquel Rodrigues Madeira
Chair: Hetty Blades
Panel Four Online Practices and Processes
Performing the Post-human Commons: An Entangled Study of Chinese Elderly Dance on Social Media Presenter: Jing Jie
Karaoke as choreographic tactic: the same but different in professionally authored dance with non-professional performers Presenter: Gillie Kleiman
Chair: Emma Meehan
Hip Hop discussion group
The art of battling in hip hop dance culture, the impact of online dance and its evolution in mainstream media Presenter: Lauren Scott
Critical Breakdown: curated discussion on Culture and responsibility in a digital era, from a Bboy stance Presenters: James Fogerty and Lucy Crowe
Chair: Kerry Franksen
Moving Online Symposium
30th January 2025
9.30 – 17.00, followed by a reception
Coventry University, UK
In recent years, there has been increased attention paid to the ownership of dance. There has been important work done in the area of dance and copyright1 as well as the examination of the way ownership is managed via social norms through the ‘commons’2 and as a form of ‘gift’.3 The increased circulation of dance online through archives, video platforms and social media sites has led to multiple debates about the copying and re-embodiment of dances,4 reigniting important conversations about appropriation, acknowledgment and credit.5 At the same time, there has been a flourishing of work on dance and performance ontology. For example, long-standing debates about the ephemerality of dance and performance have been reframed through discussions about the ‘post-ephemeral’6and materiality.7 There have also been new perspectives offered on questions about the nature of dances and the way in which they exist.8,9
The Moving Online symposium explores how these two areas intersect in the context of online dance and performance. The event builds on and shares the findings from Moving Online: Ontology and Ownership of Internet Dance (funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council [grant number AH/W01002X/1]).
The event is free to attend. We are offering limited number of £150 bursaries to support travel and participation by freelance artists. The deadline for applications is 8th January 2025.
The symposium is taking place in-person at Coventry University. We plan to live stream some of the panels, but not all sessions will be available online. If you would like to join the live stream, please select this option on the registration form.
For more information about Moving Online please see here and follow the project on X: @MovingOnlineCU and/or Instagram: @movingonlinecu
Please contact Hetty Blades with any questions: hetty.blades@falmouth.ac.uk
For the notes and references please see here.
