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A TWO-DAY CONFERENCE INVESTIGATING HERITAGE THROUGH DANCE
World Museum, National Museums Liverpool
Day one - Friday 7th March 2008

Venue

Treasure House Theatre

Level 1

Horseshoe

Dance presentations

Level 2

Community Base

Heritage dance workshops

Level 4

10.00

Registration & coffee

10.30 -10.45

Welcome & Introductions
John McGrath (Contact)
Bisakha Sarker (Chaturangan)
Angus Gunn (NML)

10.15-11.00
Workshop 2

English Folk
Long sword dance
Joy & Eric Foxley
 

10.15 - 11.00
Workshop 1 

Chinese Dance
Fenfen

10.45 -11.15

Heritage: Alive or dead?
Naseem Khan

11.15 - 12.00

Heritage through Dance
(Keynote performances)

Shane Shambu

Julia and Christian, choreographed by Marc Brew

Sarra Whicheloe

Olu Taiwo

12.00 - 13.00

Heritage through Dance
(Artists in conversation)

Shane Shambu & John McGrath
Julia + Christian & Ruth Gould
Sarra Whicheloe & Bill Harpe
Olu Taiwo  &  Karen Gallagher

12.00 – 12.45
Workshop 3 

English folk dance
Joy & Eric Foxley

13.00 -14.00

Lunch in Community Base

14.00-14.30

The Spirit of Liverpool  performance

14.30 - 15.30

Other perspectives of Heritage
Judy Ling Wong

Multicultural to Intercultural
Ken Bartlett

15.30-16.00

Tea   / The dance of the night sky in the Planetarium - level 5

16.00-17.00

Summing up
François Matarasso

Open Discussion
John McGrath

17.30

Dinner at Sultan’s Palace -  finish by 19.00
75 Victoria Street, Liverpool L1 6DE

19.30

Performance of Bahok at the Liverpool Playhouse

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A TWO-DAY CONFERENCE INVESTIGATING HERITAGE THROUGH DANCE
World Museum, National Museums Liverpool

Day two - Saturday 8th March 2008

Venue

Treasure House Theatre

Level 1

Horseshoe
Dance presentations

Level 2

Community Base

Heritage dance workshops

Level 4

10.00 – 10.30

WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS
John McGrath & Piali Ray

10.30 - 10.45

10.45 - 11.00

11.00 - 11.20

11.40 - 12.40

Wake up with call
Dancing With Miso'shi

Transmitting Heritage
Ranjit Sondhi

Heritage : a global perspective
Donald Hutera

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Creativity and Contemplation   
Christopher Thompson

(Randomly chosen delegates present their views on heritage or share their spontaneous creative ideas for enlivening heritage sites or objects.)

Tea

10.30 – 11.15
Workshop 3

Indian  dance
Vina Ladwa

11.30 - 12.15
Workshop 4

African dance and music
Miso'shi

12.40 - 13.00

The Gene story
Dr M Dutta

13.00 - 14.00

Lunch in Community Base

14.00 - 15.00

Gen(h)ome
Specially commissioned
Youth dance performance
(See here and here.)

Choreographed by
Wayne Mcgregor l Random Dance

15.00 - 15.30

15.30 - 16.00


16.00 - 16.10

Summing up
François Matarasso

Discussion & thanks
John McGrath

Farewell for all
English folk dance
- Circassian Circle –
Joy & Eric Foxley

English folk song - The leaving of Liverpool - Joy & Eric Foxley