| Description | Documents relating to the sixteenth Ballet Independents' Group Discussion Forum, 'Ballet - vocational AND academic', which was held at the Voice Box, Royal Festival Hall, London, on 13 June 2002. The guest speakers were lecturer Chris Challis, teacher Patrick Wood, and Michael Irwin, postgraduate academic adviser at London Contemporary Dance School. Background research carried out by BIG directors Susan Crow and Jennifer Jackson; announcement of the forum; letters thanking the guest speakers for their contributions; transcript of the forum; list of attendees; receipts. Articles:
Jackson, Jennifer. Curious frontier - Ballet: vocational AND academic, ballet.co.uk\magazine (website), 27 July 2002.
Jackson, Jennifer. The BIG discussion: ballet - vocational and academic, Dance UK News, 46, Autumn 2002, p10.
Downie, Andrew. School that teaches girls to dance their way out of the slums, Scotland on Sunday, 26 May 2002, p22.
Menand, Louis. Unidisiplined, Wilson Quarterly, Autumn 2001. |