Evaluation for all: A FRONTLINEdance Company x C-DaRE researcher collaborative project and practice sharing (in-person and livestreamed).

Thursday 26th June 2025, 11am-12.30pm

Mitchell Arts Centre, Stoke-on-Trent; In-person and Online

Register here: https://forms.office.com/e/Cat9f10a0w

Join FRONTLINEdance (FD) Company’s Advanced Training Programme (ATP) emerging dance training artists Beth Hope, Matt Byatt and Ben Wilson, FD’s Artistic Director Rachael Lines, and researcher Vipavinee Artpradid (Centre for Dance Research, Coventry University) for a 90-minute sharing of our inclusive evaluation project and everyday ATP practice.

Together we share the collaborative process and progress of developing a more equitable training programme evaluation approach. The research project is based on the question ‘How can we shift attention to data that is centred on the body?’ and takes a multisensory educational training programme evaluation approach based on anti-ableism, equity, and phenomenography. It centres neurodivergent and disabled emerging dance artists who prefer movement-based forms of communication.

The project is funded by a British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant (SRG 2324\240089).

Schedule:

10:45-11am – Refreshments

11-11.15am – Intro to FD with film screening and intro to the inclusive evaluation project

11.15-11.20am – Aims, objectives, what we did

11.20-11.40am – A look at the evaluation template and discussion of what worked, what didn’t work

11:40-11:45am – Comfort break and ATP dance training artists prep

11.45am-12pm – Practice sharing by ATP dance training artists

12pm-12.10pm – Provocation activity with audience about alternative ways of thinking about evaluation

12.10-12.30pm – Q&A and closing

12.30-1pm – lunch & networking

The venue:

Mitchell Arts Centre, Broad Street, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent. ST1 4HG

Parking: Mitchell Arts Centre customers may use the Tesco Extra car park (located to the rear of Mitchell Arts Centre, Clough St, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent ST1 4LS) FREE of Charge. Please ensure you bring your car registration details into the Centre and enter them into the car registration screen on the wall of the Foyer.. Customers park at their own risk. Mitchell Arts Centre does not guarantee parking.

The closest pay & display car park is Brakes car park on Broad Street, next to the Mitchell Arts Centre.

Limited disabled parking is available on Broad Street in front of the venue. With ample additional blue badge parking on Warner Street.

Questions? Email Vip Artpradid at ad5896@coventry.ac.uk