What We Do
ADAD offers a range of initiatives aimed at talent development, celebration, education and conservation of the heritage of dance of the African Diaspora. Our programme includes:
Bloom Festival
A biennial festival hosted in venues across the UK including performance, workshops talks and film, culminating at the Soutbank Centre. The spirit behind this Festival is ADAD's desire to cultivate artists who are rooted, confident and flourishing wherever they find themselves in Britain - 'blooming where they are planted'.
Find out more about
The Bloom Festival.
Open Stage
Open Stage is ADAD's regular informal platform for work in progress. We invite artists working with dance of the African Diaspora to present their work in a studio setting to a small audience. The aim of the event is to provide a safe, supportive environment for artists to test out new ideas. The platform is open to artists at any stage of their career, but is particularly useful for emerging choreographers.
Find out more about Open Stage.
Re:Generations International Conference
Re:Generations is the UK's largest gathering of dance artists, dance researches, choreographers, teachers and students intending to shape the future practice in dance that has roots in the African Diaspora. This academic conference includes lecture, demonstrations, panel discussions, film screenings, dance workshops and performances by contributors from both national and international artists and academics.
Find out more about
Re:Generations International Conference.
The Heritage Project
The ADAD Heritage Project aims to make a distinctive contribution to collecting, conserving, interpreting and narrating the history and heritage that informs the work of Black dancers in contemporary Britain. It is made up of two components:
> A photographic exhibition, Black Dance in Britain: 1930s - 1990s - Moments,
> The publication Voicing Black Dance: 1930s to 1990s - The British Experience.
The Heritage Project was created with the support of the Heritage Lottery Fund.
Find out more about The Heritage Project.
Trailblazers Fellowship
The Trailblazers Fellowship is ADAD's annual professional development for dance artists, teachers, performers and researchers working within dance of the African Diaspora.
Outreach
ADAD offers bespoke workshops and talks in schools, colleges and universities.
Learning Resources
Hotfoot Online
This online magazine is a mix of feature articles from guest contributors and commisioned writers, think pieces that challenge the concepts and boundaries of dance of the African Diaspora, interviews with artists, managers and leading organisations and a few new regular items.
Find out more about Hotfoot Online.
Publications
ADAD has produced two publications which are available for sale:
> Voicing Black Dance: The British Experience 1930s to 1990s: a collection of interviews, articles and commentary, which unearths the hidden history of Black dance artists in the UK,
> Black Dance in the UK: a collection of articles and critical writing relating to Black dance in the UK.
Click here for details of how to purchase these publications.
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