Doing diversity in European dance schools

In response to growing calls to question and revise European Higher dance education, this project was set up across three different dance schools – La Manufacture, PARTS, and SKH – and with the support of the University of Amsterdam, in order to investigate and instigate questions around diversity and social justice. 

Using participatory action research methods, we have visited the three schools and held lectures, shared bodily practices, conducted interviews with staff and teachers, and organized focus groups with students and alumni. These three weeks had as objective to create some common ground and literacy around diversity and social justice, as well as producing a picture of the state of diversity practice in the three dance programs. Following the treatment of the data, each school receives a preliminary report leading to further discussions and at the end of the project, three outputs will be shared: a comparative report on the state of diversity practices – with analysis, comparisons, and recommendations – a course on diversity and social justice geared to dance students, and a training for staff and teachers on the same subject. 

Description du projet sur le site Internet de La Manufacture