【Dance】Archives of the Dance (28): Chisenhale Dance Space
This contribution to the 'Archives of the Dance' series explores Chisenhale Dance Space's collection and my work with it as a PhD researcher. My re... [more]
This contribution to the 'Archives of the Dance' series explores Chisenhale Dance Space's collection and my work with it as a PhD researcher. My re... [more]
A Tunisian youth movement, Dancers Citizens South (DCS), founded on 31 May 2015, encourages young people to find agency in their communities by creati... [more]
Inclusive and equitable dance education practices remain an important issue in United States public school settings. We explore adolescents' participation in public school dance electives through the examination of an ethnically diverse, longitudinal sam
This narrative inquiry article tells the story of Al-Sarab Dance School, which began as a series of summer dance workshops taught by Nadra Assaf in the 1980s in and around Byblos, Lebanon. The workshops occurred during the Lebanese civil war and were an o
During the COVID-19 pandemic TikTok became a vibrant virtual space to circulate dance performances and challenges when other forms of movement were heavily restricted. A new generation of Irish dancers joined the app to share their choreographies and crea
This essay examines the gendered politics of social dance and its relationship to the wider societal changes of China's early economic reforms from 1978 to the end of the 1980s. It considers social dance a symbol of contested modernities during the initi
The primary aim of this research is to investigate the immediate influence of students' personal experiences and their degree of interest in traditional dances of the Philippines in relation to preservation efforts. Respondents for the study are students
Given that culture involves some form of transmission from one generation to the next, the question of its origins must necessarily involve activities that do not depend on its pre-existence. Dancing is significant in being simultaneously an individual an
This article in the Archives of the Dance series looks at the contents of the Richard Alston Dance Company (RADC) Archive and collection THM/627 that documents the company's activities from its foundation in 1994 to its closure in 2020. It is now housed
A close examination of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's 1962 Seoul performance, as well as Ailey's influence on Korean dancers' training and choreography, reveals that Ailey's impact on Korean contemporary dance is significant. Ailey's explor
Thinking about decolonisation and solidarity within the context of contemporary dance, if we consider decolonising and self-authoring as a process of self-actualisation, what role can peer and institutional allyship play? This is a short provocation that
The present study investigated the determinants affecting students' actual use through the use of a video-conferencing platform, and how actual use affects dance engagement, for enhancing the learning experience in the domain of dance education, particul
The 2020 Dance Research Matters (DRM) campaign led to the launch of the 500,000 pound AHRC-funded Dance Research Matters Network programme towards the end of 2022. The article discusses the challenging backdrop against which it was formed, and how it exem
Context center dot In the conventional sciences, artistic work and aesthetic experience are explained from different theoodological constraints of Science I, it is hardly possible to develop an integrative theory that coordinates the complex relational in
Conceptualizing the image of a dancing Supreme Goddess in the Hindu tradition presents a philosophical challenge because it demands a coherent rational reconciliation between her nature as continuously changing into multiple forms and the realm of pure, a
This contribution to the 'Archives of the Dance' series explores Chisenhale Dance Space's collection and my work with it as a PhD researcher. My research into Chisenhale's history is concerned with its formation and early history, from 1980-1989, this
A Tunisian youth movement, Dancers Citizens South (DCS), founded on 31 May 2015, encourages young people to find agency in their communities by creating in music, dance, or theater. DCS invited an American choreographer to create a dance in a collaborativ