topographies not traces Educator, Choreographer, Performer, Dramaturg
Cardiff, Wales
Joined August 2007
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Reflecting on recent global majority related cultural events/celebrations , and the absence of various Newid Diwylliant | Culture Change organisations supporting or contributing to them.
llongyfarchiadau @MapdanceUC for the first show of your tour, da iawn @_bonnieamanda & @usw_dance grad @charlperkins97 Ia, dyna ti!
llongyfarchiadau to all the @BBC Culture in Quarantine artists! delighted to be commissioned alongside @KrystalsLowe, and @JonnyCotsen representing Wales. Diloch @weareunltd @thespacearts @Celf_Cymru / @Arts_Wales_ @BBCArtsPR
A Wales based Arts & Heath event with an all white panel? Lead organisation lacks diverse leadership, but claims to be working towards change @nomorewanels #wanel
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If you don’t see yourself represented in a marginalised group, it can be hard to openly identify as a part of that group due to the apparent absence of recognition/support for people ‘like you’.
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The ‘How Can We Care For Each Other festival’ @ThePlaceLondon includes ‘Seedlings of Time’ ( @EmilyRobinson13 ) and Rewild / Ailwylltio ( @KrystalsLowe ), both were funded and created in Wales ( @ProGroundwork @GreenManFest ) Find out more bit.ly/39nKEPC
"I wonder if the photographers were aware of this context when taking these photos? [Does] Copeland’s life story or status as a prominent Black ballerina, [subvert] Degas’ work and its themes?"
kottke.org/20/07/dancer-mist…
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under-story.com
“A collective act of solidarity from speakers of different backgrounds and on different paths, intended to offer some hope, inspiration, tools and humour whilst exploding the myth of a straightforward path through a dance career.”
A chat from @GwenithOwen will be online next week, and I was asked to submit a chat last week.
under-story.com is not just timely, it has been needed for a long time. Diolch yn fawr iawn to everyone involved.
reflecting on the @TyCerdd_org @privilegecafe_ conversation this week, and thinking about the next event theguardian.com/education/20…
I weithiwyr proffesiynol ym myd ffilm, teledu, theatr, a'r celfyddydau, ymunwch a'r her i bostio llun ohonoch yn eich swydd. Dim ond llun, dim disgrifiad. Y nod yw gorlifo cyfryngau cymdeithasol gyda'n proffesiwn. Copïwch y testun a phostiwch Lun. #Achubycelfyddydau
over the last few months I have heard some great people talking in a range of contexts, @JS_Diaspora is one of them, and they have just launched a new podcast:
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@privilegecafe_ is a great space to listen, discuss, and act ... don't just read about colourism, help dismantle it.
theguardian.com/fashion/2020…
Images, and pieces of black bodies have long been souvenirs of lynchings
(warning, graphic descriptions)
jstor.org/stable/25069734?se…
Met police officers creating images of Nicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry are the perpetuation of these practices
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lo…
Welsh dance sector (orgs, independents, freelancers) you need to read this, and then come together to have the conversations you have been avoiding, take action rather than staying silent and being complicity racist.
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Sector dawns Cymru (sefydliadau, bobl llawrydd): mae angen i chi ddarllen hwn, ac i ni ddod at ein gilydd i gael y sgyrsiau sydd wedi cael eu hosgoi. Gweithredwch – tawelwch sy'n cynnal strwythurau hiliol
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"What’s been really interesting is colourblind casting, which is great because it gives black actors work and opportunity. But what it also does is suppress our own stories." - Winsome Pinnock
theguardian.com/stage/2020/j…