ResDance Series 5: Episode 6: Improvisation as a transdisciplinary practice for unstable times with Jo Pollitt

ResDance Series 5: Episode 6: Improvisation as a transdisciplinary practice for unstable times with Jo Pollitt In this episode, Jo shares insight into her practice of improvisation across several performance, choreographic and scholarly platforms.  Alongside sharing the processes and approaches employed in her research, she explores the theoretical frameworks that more widely inform her practice and ways of working with improvisation as method.  Throughout the episode, Jo reflects upon her current research endeavours and emphasises the importance of conversation as a means of making change.    Dr Jo Pollitt is an artist-scholar with the Centre for People, Place, and Planet, across both the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts and the School of Education at Edith Cowan University on Whadjuk Noongar Country. She is convenor of Dance Research Australia,  co-founder of The Ediths, creative director of #FEAS Feminist Educators Against Sexism, co-director of BIG Kids Magazine, and author of ‘The dancer in your hands’. Jo's work is grounded in a practice of improvisation across multiple performance, choreographic and publishing platforms. Her current research is focussed on weather as a studio for grappling with feminist anticolonial relations with place.  https://www.forrestresearch.org.au/portfolio-item/dr-jo-pollitt/ Contact details Email: j.pollitt@ecu.edu.au Web: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jo-pollitt/  Social media Instagram: @pollittjoanna  Other resources https://theediths.org/roundtable-series/ The Centre for People, Place, & Planet: https://www.ecu.edu.au/schools/science/research/strategic-centres/centre-for-people-place-and-planet/overview https://feministeducatorsagainstsexism.com/  BIG Kids Magazine: https://bigkidsmagazine.com/ Published sources The dancer in your hands: https://uwap.uwa.edu.au/products/the-dancer-in-your-hands https://artgallery.wa.gov.au/learn/artist-activation/conversations-with-rain  https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003145615-6/choreographies-presence-jo-pollitt  The State of Dancingness: https://journals.colorado.edu/index.php/partake/article/view/419 She writes like she dances: Response and radical impermanence in writing as dancing  https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/chor.8.2.199_1 How to think (as) a body of water. A talk by Astrida Neimanis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASKL8EpDVXE Throat by Ellen van Neervan: https://www.uqp.com.au/books/throat Please share this episode with students, educators, practitioners, performers, and interdisciplinary researchers curious to learn more about dance research in action.