Research
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2025
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Diversity in European Higher Dance Education
In the past few years, led by global movements such as #metoo and Black Lives Matter, the questions of eurocentrism, sexism, racism, and other forms of discrimination have come to the fore in Western societies at large. In different contemporary dance worlds, these movements have led to a variety of initiatives, organizations, and legal proceedings. The questions of inclusion and discriminations have touched not only the professional world but also dance schools, which saw the emergence of a variety of student led initiatives. European contemporary dance and its educational programs, tend to present the knowledge created within it as internationally valid or even universal, bringing up a clash with non-dominant forms of contemporaneity.
Team
La Manufacture
Gabriel Schenker - DDE Project coordinator, dancer, teacher and academic head of the Bachelor in Contemporary Dance
Elodie Brunner - collaborator of the research department and administrator
Fabián Barba - artist and teacher
Meggie Blankschyn - artist, alumni, and current research assistant
P.A.R.T.S. (BE)
Steven De Belder – DDE Administrative coordinator, coordinator of Bachelor and Master
Charlotte Vandevyver - deputy director
Justien Vervaeck – financial administrator, DDE treasurer
Michael Pomero - artist and teacher
Moya Michael - artist and teacher
Selby Jenkins – artist and alumni
Paulina Rosa - sociologist of art
Stockholm University of the Arts (SE)
Zoë Poluch - head of dance Bachelor
Chrysa Parkinson - head of subject Dance
Jorun Kugelberg - international projects coordinator
Marit Shirin Carolasdotter – artist and alumni
University of Utrecht / University of Amsterdam (NL)
Rolando Vázquez - sociologist, decolonial thinker
Aminata Cairo - Equity Diversity and Inclusion specialist
External evaluator :
Rosalba Icaza - sociologist, intersectional feminist thinker
Former team members :
Catol Teixeira de Oliveira - artist and alumni of La Manufacture
Bastien Hippocrate - artist and alumni of La Manufacture
Renan Martins - artist and alumni of PARTS
Partage des résultats
Communications :
* SCHENKER Gabriel, TEIXEIRA Carol, « Diversity in Dance Education », Laboratoire IRMAS « Musique, arts de la scène et société », 25 mars 2024.