The Choreography of Consent: Action Research Event
- Date: Thursday 24 July 2025, 10:00 – 17:30
- Location: Off campus
- Cost: £35.00
A unique event where practitioners and researchers from dance and law come together to explore the current complexities of working with consent.
About the Event
This is a participatory event which features workshops and discussions focusing on consent practices within dance. It forms part of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded research network The Choreography of Consent: Experiments in Dance / Law Research, which brings dance and law together to share challenges, complexities and good practice around consent.
Members of the Network - including Heni Hale, Anna Macdonald and Jo Fong - will share creative tasks designed to open up discussion of how dance practitioners work with consent. We will also hear talks from legal scholars – including Marie Jacob and Amanda Keeling – sharing examples of the way consent works in other fields.
Through this event we are interested in opening up discussions about:
- Capacity and consent
- How consent is negotiated
- How does dance practice sits within legal expectations
- What happens when consent is withdrawn.
If you wish to join in the practical workshop elements, please wear something comfortable that you can move in.
Location
This event will be held at the PACE Building, De Montfort University, Richmond Street, Leicester, LE2 7GZ.
About the Network
Led by Anna Macdonald (Reader in Movement at Central Saint Martins: UAL) and Marie-Andrée Jacob (Professor of Law at the University of Leeds), this network uses dance research to examine the movement of law. The goal is to better understand how law "moves" in an embodied way. It builds on Jacob and Macdonald’s longstanding collaboration, which explores how dance can reveal the affective and embodied aspects of legal materials.
The network focuses on consent, exploring how dance-based research can deepen legal understandings of consent, and how legal studies can influence dance practices related to consent.