Dance & Museums Working Together Symposium Symposium Report - Content, Analysis & Recommendations January 2015 Author: Emma McFarland, Consultant, eMc arts E:
[email protected] arts eMc TRINITY LABAN CONSERVATOIRE OF MUSIC & DANCE Contents Section 1 : About the Symposium 4 Introduction 4 1. Overview 5 Section 2 : Symposium Content 7 2. Presentations & Case Studies 7 3. Feedback from Discussion Groups 14 4. Enquiry Groups 4.1 Topic 1 – Schools & the Curriculum 14 4.2 Topic 2 – Responding Creatively to Objects 16 4.3 Topic 3 – Audience Engagement and Response 20 4.4 Topic 4 – Dance as Object – Live Curation and Archiving 23 5. Panel Q & A 25 Section 3 : Rationale for Dance and Museums Working Together 28 6. Opportunities and Benefits of Museum – Dance Collaboration 6.1 New and innovative ways of interpreting objects / artefacts, collections 28 and exhibitions 6.2 Developing new audiences / visitors 28 6.3 Collaboration as a way of informing the development of dance performance 29 6.4 Providing rich, new artistic stimuli 29 6.5 Encouraging reflections on dance’s own history 30 6.6 Offers new approaches to museum learning and participatory work 30 6.7 Organisational benefits 30 Section 4 : Considerations around Museums – Dance Collaboration 31 7. Potential Issues and Challenges of Museums – Dance Collaboration 7.1 Need for deeply rooted partnerships 31 7.2 The need for trust....and risk 31 7.3 The role of the artist 32 7.4 Purpose, priorities and planning 33 7.5 Audiences and visitors 33 7.6 Practical considerations 34 7.7 Evaluation of ‘pop-up’ dance activity in museums 34 Section 5 : Where Next? 36 8.