This unique 2- day Artist Lab experience, enables up to 20 teaching artists to work alongside a creative team (Angela Pickard, Stuart Waters, Darren Carr, Bakini Pickup, Sophie Adler, and Sophie Rebecca) to explore Critical Dance Pedagogy in the studio space together. Our objectives are:

·      To bring together teaching artists from across the UK with a creative team, to network, share practice, knowledge exchange, and engage in action learning.

·      Raise awareness of Critical Dance Pedagogy, of socially embedded assumptions and dominant structural power relations that produce unjust educational and socio-cultural outcomes in dance.

·       Immerse in practical and creative learning and reflection, around equity, diversity, inclusion, student-centred pedagogy, and enabling dance environments.

·       To action the development of more enabling environments for students and dancers to thrive, and to evolve inclusive teaching and artistic practices in dance.