1. The aftermath of Brexit and the pandemic has left British dance - with a few notable exceptions - looking diminished and somewhat provincial.
Discuss with examples.
2. More than a decade of funding cuts and lack of investment in arts education has left dance audiences in the UK in a downward spiral - and with a more conservative attitude - and looks irreversible at the present time. Is this decline irreversible and what can be done to get audiences back?
3. The funding restrictions enforced by Arts Council England have shifted the priorities of dance companies and dancemakers away from creating and performing work for audiences in favour of 'community engagement' activities in a way that has benefitted neither artists, audiences or communities. Discuss.
4. More than a decade of Conservative government pursuing an anti-European agenda has resulted in more conservative audiences, fearful of ideas and innovation. Do you agree with this statement and what impact - if any - has this had on the work now being produced by British dance companies?
5. Is British contemporary dance as we know it finished - or at the very least going through a seismic shift? What does the future hold?
6. My audience is my enemy. If existing audiences in 'traditional' venues are preventing 'the community' from accessing culture who is the audience? And if new audiences in non-conventional spaces can be established what of the ticket-buying original audience?