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Black British Dance and Performance: Impact, Voice and Gaze

Georgina Payne

Black British Dance and Performance: Impact, Voice and Gaze, an eight-week online course that will examine and explore Black dance from a British perspective, provided by Serendipity Institute for Black Arts and Heritage.

The course aims to further participants’ knowledge of how language, terminology and representation within the media and cultural practice affect the artistic and sociopolitical landscape within the UK and Internationally; also to explore funding bodies, legislations and policies that come into play as an artist who creates culturally diverse work and develops audiences

Over the years Serendipity Institute for Black Arts and Heritage has been at the forefront of learning and is proud to collaborate with educators at schools, colleges and universities to offer a range of training and meaningful engagements around Black dance and heritage from the African, African Caribbean and LatinX community where it meets Diaspora, and this online course is no exception Serendipity has crafted a dedicated platform that will enhance your overall learning experience throughout this course. You will receive over 180 hours of taught sessions, a reading list, access to creative films, a handbook for further reading, and links to subject areas

Each week has several modules, and participants are required to engage in various self-directed learning tasks that will need to be completed to progress through the course Course tasks will consist of writing, researching, engaging in discussions, going to see a performance in mainstream and non-mainstream venues, to creating your piece of work that will be shared during the final week of the course

Throughout the eight weeks, you will be taught by Pawlet Brookes MBE, CEO and Artistic Director of Serendipity Institute for Black Arts and Heritage, with insights from pioneers of Black dance including Thomas Prestø, Artistic Director of Tabanka Dance Ensemble and the Talawa Technique TM, Joan Myers Brown, Founder of Philidanco! and the International Association of Blacks in Dance (IABD), L’Antoinette Stines, Founder of L’Acadco and creator of L’Antech, and Sharon Watson MBE Principal of Northern School of Contemporary Dance. The course will be assessed by Tony Graves, former Associate Professor and Head of Subject, Arts and Festivals Management at De Montfort University

Black British Dance and Performance:

Impact, Voice and Gaze will launch on

Tuesday 24 September 2024 and run until

Tuesday 12 November 2024. The final Tuesday of the course will be an in-person event, where we will share creative digital work that was tasked within the course and host a discussion around programming diverse work. For those participants who are unable to be at the in-person event, there will be the option to still engage and be a part of the session by live streaming

The full course price is a one-time fee of £275; this covers all course sessions, additional course content, and the inperson event To register your interest in the course please visit Serendipityuk.com/training.

Serendipity Connect members save up to 20% on the course price