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Statistics Dance Their Way Onto Screen... Soon. An innovative film project aiming to engage Psychology students through dance is set to launch later this month. A collaboration between artists and academics, the resulting four short films use dance to visualise statistical concepts used in Psychology degree courses across the country. The unique films have been designed to guide a non-dance trained audience through attending to carefully composed choreographies that demonstrate fundamental statistical concepts. A team of dance professionals - choreographer, Masha Gurina, and filmmaker, Kyle Stevenson, together with 10 dancers - provided the artistic vision, while the UK’s leading psychology statistician, Prof. Andy Field, and Psychology and Research Methods lecturer, Lucy Irving, guided the statistical side of the project. Lucy, who Founded the project, says: “Statistics at degree level are complex and exciting at best, dull and insufferable at worst. Students often think of them as a 'dark art', therefore they can be challenging to teach. I wanted to find an engaging and fun way to present material which is dreaded by so many”. Elise Phillips, Project Manager, says “This project is unique in that it has not just used the complex intellectual concepts as starting points for a...

FILMING STARTED FOR BPS DANCEC PROJECT 15/08/2013 A British Psychological Society funded project that aims to communicate a number of statistical psychological concepts through expressive dance started filming at Siobhan Davies Dance Studio in London this month. The project, 'Dancing Statistics', was funded by a 2011 Society Public Engagement Grant, as well as through an arts innovation fund from arts charity IdeasTap, and is being overseen by Lucy Irving from Middlesex University and Professor Andy Field from the University of Sussex. Lucy explained: “We hope that by representing complicated psychological constructs and statistical procedures in interesting and memorable ways via dance will enable more psychology students to understand and engage with them.” Over the course of the project Lucy and Andy worked with a team of dance professionals, including choreographer, Masha Gurina, who worked with 10 dancers and filmmaker, Kyle Stevenson, to conceive ways of communicating these concepts through dance and movement. Lucy said: “The project is at an exciting stage as we see how the choreographer has interpreted these concepts and worked with the dancers to illustrate and bring them to life. Our hope is that as well as being fun and unusual the dancing will demystify and...

This document details what the project is about, who is involved and how the fund will make the project possible.

An in depth account of how fees were worked out for all aspects of the budget.  You will see the Rehearsal/Studio Space section has been lighglighted as this is where the IdeasFund will be used.

Excel style budget detailing income, in-kind support and expenditure for the Dancing Statistics project.   You will see the Ideas Tap Idea Fund highlighted in the Income Section of the budget.  You will also see the costings for the studio hire highlighted in the Expenditure Section of the budget.  The IdeasFund will cover the cost of the studio hire as detailed in the application form and the budget notes.

Timeline for the proposed Dancing Statistics project in Gantt chart format.   You will see that there are some large time gaps in between getting things started in April, commencing research in May, and Auditioning in July.  This is due to the availability of reduced rate studio space available at Trinity Laban.  As an Alumni student, I am only able to access the space during non-standard teaching weeks, i.e. half terms and holidays.  Unfortunately, we are not able to afford any other studio space for the research period and audition day.