Conference Programme
Registration and information will remain open all day. All panels will comprise four 15-minute talks and a 30-minute discussion. Delegates are invited to visit the Gallery throughout the conference. |
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Thursday 22 April |
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9.15 – 10.15 |
Movement Workshop 1 - The Old Dining Hall, Hulme Hall The Embodied Brain – Facilitating Movement Learning through Mirror Neurons Glenna Batson |
| 9.15 – 10.15 | Movement Workshop 2 - The JCR, Hulme Hall Modalities of Kinesthetic Empathy in Dance Therapy Marianne Eberhard-Kaechele |
| 9.15 – 10.15 | Movement Workshop 3, Whitworth Art Gallery Mirroring and Embodied Intersubjectivity Bonnie Meekums |
10.30 – 11.00 |
Welcome address from Dee Reynolds |
11.00 – 11.15 |
Coffee/tea |
11.15 – 12.30 |
Keynote Address from Susan Foster Dancing with the 'Mind's Muscles': A Brief History of Kinesthesia and Empathy Q&A session |
12.30 – 13.30 |
Lunch |
13.30 – 15.00 |
Interdisciplinary Panel 1: Audiences The Baby in the Mirror by Rachel Davies Watching dance or feeling dance?: From visual perception to aesthetic experience Embodied Mediation: Interactive Media Environments and the Audience Experience of Kinesthetic Empathy Effort and Affect: Engaging with Film Performance |
13.30 – 14.30 |
Movement Workshop 1 - The Old Dining Hall, Hulme Hall |
15.00 – 16.00 |
Poster Session with tea and coffee (Follow link for roster and brief abstracts) |
16.00 – 17.15 |
Keynote Address from Christian Keysers From Mirror Neurons to Kinesthetic Empathy Q&A session |
17.45 – 19.15 |
Conference Reception (in association with Moves) to feature an exhibition of photographic projections by Chris Nash at The Whitworth Art Gallery. Addresses from Gala Pujol, Festival Director of Moves International Festival of Movement on Screen; Dee Reynolds, Director of The Watching Dance Project and Janet Wolff, Director of Manchester University's Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts (CIDRA). |
20.00 – 21.30 |
KINESTECH: Dancing Across Media at The Dancehouse Theatre: Both of View by Melanie Clarke and 'Red Rain', an exclusive specially commissioned piece from Bridget Fiske. In association with moves International Festival of Movement on Screen. |
Friday 23 April |
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08.00-08.45 |
Movement Workshop 3 |
09.00-10.15 |
Keynote Address and Q&A session with Alain Berthoz |
10.15-10.45 |
Coffee/tea |
10.45-12.15 |
Interdisciplinary Panel 2: Kinesthetic Experience and Embodied Practices Knowing Me, Knowing You: Cognition, Kinesthetic Empathy and Applied Performance Forming therapeutic relationships in Dance Movement Psychotherapy: The Role of Mirroring Kinesthetic Intelligence, Care and the Ethics of “Home” in a Hospital and Ward Setting |
10.45-11.45 and 12.15-13.15 |
Movement Workshop 4 |
12.15-13.45 |
Lunch |
12.15-13.15 |
Perceiving the Performing Body – a lunchtime lecture/demonstration Bonnie Eckard, Cara Gargano and Maria Porter |
13.45-15.15 |
Interdisciplinary Panel 3: Creative Practices Sex, Lies and Interdisciplinary Practice Intuition as a Parameter for Interactive Performance Empathy and Presence in the Performance of ‘ Open’ Improvisational Dance The poetics of motion capture and visualization techniques: watching real and virtual bodies Sarah Whatley
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13.45-14.45 |
Movement Workshop 5 |
15.15-15.45 |
tea/coffee |
15.45-17.15 |
Interdisciplinary Panel 4: Looking and Listening The Oscillating Moment - Percieving Movement in Dance Photography Musical Group Interaction and empathy - a mutual cognitive Listening to dance...with our bodies and minds Following movements in interactive dance installations |
15.45 – 16.45 |
Movement Workshop 6 Guido Orgs |
17.15-18.15 |
Open Space format discussion |
18.15-18.30 |
Farewell and close |