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What does neuroscience offer to dance? What does dance offer to neuroscience?

“Dancers are experts in mental processes such as memory, timing and motor cognition, and the study of dance can provide insight into these basic processes…. At the same time, several changes in...

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Monsieur Desnoyer – Mapping Choreography. 18C Dance Design

Below is a beautiful illustration of ‘Spanish Entree Performed by Mr Desnoyer and choreographed by Anthony L’Abbe’. Full of jumps, turns and entrechats, a virtuoso vocabulary runs throughout the solo....

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Guest Blog Post – Socrates: Mark Morris on Death and Dying

In 1917, Erik Satie faced a spiritual dilemma—the challenge of giving voice to death, to nothingness. The composer had begun setting fragments of Plato’s narrative account of Socrates’s final days and...

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100 Years Since the Russian Revolution

Looking Back at the Russian Revolution 2017 marks the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, which occurred in March and November (Gregorian calendar) in 1917. The pair of revolutions saw the...

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Why do we call Middle Eastern dance “belly dance”?

English speakers use the term “belly dance” to describe solo, improvised dances from the Middle East and North Africa that feature intricate movements of the shoulders, chest, and hips. Where Did the...

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Margaret McGowan: A Tribute

by Richard Ralph In March this year, Dance Research lost two of its core members from its editorial team – Margaret McGowan and Clement Crisp, who had each been with the journal since its inception...

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Making art is messy

by Simon Ellis Making art is messy. Artists make lots of decisions under less-than-ideal conditions without a clear understanding of how the work will turn out and how it will be felt and experienced...

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A Conversation on the Nature of Practice in Hip-Hop 

with Robert Hylton and Jonathan Burrows Based on a conversation between myself as a longstanding hip-hop artist and now academic researcher, and choreographer Jonathan Burrows who has been a regular...

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Writing Dancing and the Stance

by ‘Funmi Adewole Elliott Over the years I have carried out several research projects as a practitioner, at times with funding from organisations like the Arts Council and Chisenhale Dance Space or...

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Lost in translation: The influence of André Levinson and Arnold Haskell in Spain

by Ana Abad-Carlés and Marina Peñaranda-Abad Our article for Dance Research 41(2) came to us in a very serendipitous way, when we saw that the Prologue to the Spanish edition of Serge Lifar’s book La...

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