Throughout July 2020, Dance Ireland, Dance Limerick and Dublin Dance Festival co-hosted a series of focused conversations about dance. These ‘Think Tanks’ are building on important discussions that have already been set in motion about the survival and sustainability of the sector.
Drawing on the expertise of artists, producers, resource organisations, venues, and festivals, we will address urgent issues around making and presenting work, planning for uncertainty, resources for recovery and how to equip the sector for a changed future.
It is our aim that together we will highlight key questions and emerging solutions from across the dance sector as we navigate disruption, and work towards a sustainable future for dance.
Representative contributors from across the sector were invited to come together to discuss three broad themes:
Making Dance Performance – Challenges and solutions around how we can keep making work
Dance of Interdependence – Considering the overall dance ecology nationally and internationally
Shaping Sustainability – Exploring how we can build resilience as a sector and equip ourselves for the future
Dr Aoife McGrath is supporting these events through facilitation and documentation, and a summary of the discussion is shared after each session. Individuals and organisations are invited to offer additional ideas and input in response to the themes.
We hope that by capturing the perspectives, ideas and propositions from this process that we can begin to collectively create a roadmap to support the dance sector and its future direction.
Read the summaries below:
Click HERE for info on Think Tank #1
Click HERE for info on Think Tank #2
Click HERE for info on Think Tank #3
Please send your thoughts and contributions to ThinkTanks2021@gmail.com.
