Future Ecologies: Producing Dance Network with Christopher Bannerman, Anita Clark & Sarah Hopfinger In this episode, Christopher, Anita and Sarah share insight into the focus of the network, which brings together academics and arts professionals to reimagine an inclusive, extended and sustainable ecosystem for dance. They reflect upon their network experiences thus far and share thinking around the fragility and vulnerability of the ecosystems that exist in the arts. Throughout the episode, they consider what a future ecology means to each of them and they re-imagine what opportunities might emerge from the artist offerings and lived experiences shared throughout the network. The importance of seeing producers as creative practitioners and the continued value placed on dance research is highlighted throughout. https://www.fepdn.net/⁠ Christopher Bannerman (Principal Investigator) London Contemporary Dance School Professor Christopher Bannerman had a distinguished international career as a performer and choreographer principally with the National Ballet of Canada and London Contemporary Dance Theatre. One of the first dance artists to lead a UK university department, he also achieved one of the first UK practice-research PhDs and professorial conferment. He has contributed to policy as Chair of Dance UK, Arts Council England’s Dance Panel and through membership of the UK Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Dance Forum. He is an Emeritus Professor at Middlesex University and a Visiting Professor at London Contemporary Dance School (LCDS) and Beijing Dance Academy (BDA). He co-leads international collaborations including ArtsCross, an intercultural choreographic research initiative with LCDS, BDA, Hong Kong Academy for the Performing Arts and University of Taipei. Contact: [email protected] Anita Clark (Co-investigator) The Work Room Anita is Director of The Work Room an artist-led organisation, committed to supporting a sustainable environment for independent dance artists in Scotland. It acts as an incubator for dance ideas to be researched, developed, tested and produced, that go on to performances across Scotland and throughout the world. From its base in Glasgow’s Tramway arts centre, The Work Room connects over 250 artists working in dance, movement and choreography in Scotland.  Contact: [email protected] Social media: F: https://www.facebook.com/TheWorkRoomGlasgow I: https://www.instagram.com/the_work_room_dance/ Other links: www.theworkroom.org.uk  Sarah Hopfinger (Co-investigator) Royal Conservatoire Scotland Dr Sarah Hopfinger (she/her) is an award-winning queer disabled artist and researcher based in Glasgow. She works across live art, dance, choreography, performance, disability and crip practices, queerness, ecology and environmentalism. Her current performance project, Pain andI, is a diversely accessible body of work made in response to her lived experience of chronic pain, which has toured nationally and internationally. Her current practice-led research project, Ecologies of Pain, explores through dance how chronic pain experience can offer insight into what it means to live and relate with wider ecological pain. She publishes her research across academic books and journals, performance lectures and podcasts, and through creative writing. W: https://www.sarahhopfinger.org.uk/ Contact: [email protected] Social Media I: https://www.instagram.com/sarahhopfinger/ F: https://www.facebook.com/drsarahhopfinger/ AHRC-funded Dance Research Matters Networks The five AHRC-funded Dance Research Matters Networks explore current issues and generate change and legacy for the sector. The ecosystems created by the Networks traverse across South Asian dance, digital black dance, future producing dance ecologies, critical dance pedagogies, and pluriversal dance practices and will be mapped for reach and impact in and beyond the sector. Plea