Dance is a growing subject of academy inquiry, attracting attention from historians, literary scholars, cultural theorists, social scientists, and more. While scholarship on dance spans multiple disciplines, these perspectives do not always intersect. What new insights might emerge by bringing them more fully into dialogue?
This one-day, in-person event will bring together various researchers and practitioners working with dance from different disciplinary backgrounds, showcasing interdisciplinary work across a range of topics, methodologies, and experiences.
Through a series of talks, we’ll explore historical connections across dance and literature, geographies of dance across different spaces and places, and real-world dance collaborations across communities. Alongside these talks, the day will include showings of dance practice and opportunities for creative and critical reflection and discussion.
Please see the full list of speakers and talk titles below:
- Gabriela Minden, Durham University
- Eliot Smith, Eliot Smith Dance
- Megan Girdwood, University of Edinburgh
- Daniel P. Jones, Durham University
- Ellen Jeffery, Dance City
- Sofie Narbed
- Lewis Hou, Science Ceilidh
- Emily Davis, Durham University
- Matthew Reason, York St John University
This event is free to attend in person – and no dance experience is required! Light refreshments will be provided.
This event is hosted by Durham University’s Institute for Medical Humanities and the Moving Bodies Lab of the Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities.
