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An
international conference on Dance and Ageing
Presented by
Chaturangan and Liverpool
Hope University
The Marks
of Time conference took place in Liverpool on 12th and 13th January
2007 and was inspired by the decision
by Liverpool Culture Company to designate 2006 as "Year
of Performance"as
part of the build-up to the Liverpool European Capital of Culture 2008.
Marks of Time
looked at the issues of dance beyond youth and athletic bodies from three
perspectives
- How dance can
be used within the voluntary and charity sector to aid ‘well ageing’
- How professional
dance practice by mature performers can be sustained and developed
- How best practice
can be nurtured within the community groups of senior citizens
Marks of
Time brought dance practitioners, charity and voluntary workers,
local authority staff with older people remit, pensioners, community groups
and carers together to share models of good practice, debate and exchange
ideas. Marks
of Time offered inspiring speeches and engaging debates by leading
exponents in the field, presentations, dance workshops and a time to network.
Marks of Time featured an excerpt from Body
of Experience, a dance performance celebrating mature
performers. Body of Experience was co-commissioned
by Chaturangan and is currently touring nationally.
See here for paintings of performances
and workshops by Noelle Williamson.
We hope to put reviews and papers on-line. See Chitra
Sundaram's paper , a review in "Pulse"
magazine by Sanjeevini Dutta, the concluding
comments by Donald Williamson, and Donald
Hutera's review. See here for comments
from delegates. See here for a paper
on IdeA knowledge contribution from Liverpool.
There were contributions
to Marks
of Time through
papers and performance from many eminent practitioners including (see
here for biographies)
- Diane
Amans (Freedom in Dance)
- Prabha
Appaji (independent dancer)
- Professor
Christopher Bannerman (Middlesex University),
- Ken
Bartlett (Creative Director, Foundation for Community Dance),
- Els
van Buren-Walvis (Holland)
- Bill Chambers
(Dean, Liverpool Hope University)
- Sian
Edwards Davies (Nomad Dance International)
- Ann
Dickie (From Here to Maturity)
- Sheila
Dickie (Sadlers Wells Community Group)
- Lisa
Dowler (MDI)
- Mark Edwards (Edgehill
College)
- Eric
Foxley (independent musician and dancer)
- Julia Griffins
(independent dancer)
- Jackie Guy (Body
of Experience)
- Donald
Hutera (writer)
- Debbie
Lee-Anthony (Senior lecturer, Winchester University)
- Francois
Mattaraso (Chair, Arts Council, East Midlands)
- Misho'si
(independent dancer)
- Shyamal Mukherjee
OBE
- Mary
Prestidge (LIPA)
- Ana Sanchez-Colberg
(paper with Efva Lilja)
- Bisakha
Sarker (Chaturangan)
- Chitra
Sunderam (editor,
"Pulse" magazine, UK)
- Julie Taylor (Director,
Liverpool Healthy City)
- Virginia Taylor
(Head of Dance, Liverpool Hope University)
- Tim Tubbs (UK
Foundation for Dance)
and representations
from the following organisations
You may view the
programme of events here, or download
it here as a PDF document .
You may see a delegate
list here as a PDF document.
For further reading
see an
article by Catherine Baumgartner.
This conference was
supported by, among others
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Some submitted papers
are being put on-line, see the schedule
of events page.
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