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Dance Research in the United Kingdom

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2014

Andrée Grau  and
Stephanie Jordan
Andrée Grau
Affiliation:
Roehampton Institute, London
Stephanie Jordan
Affiliation:
Roehampton Institute, London
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Research in Dance: Worldwide
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Dance Research Journal , Volume 27 , Issue 2 , Fall 1995 , pp. 77 - 80
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Copyright © Congress on Research in Dance 1995

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References

Notes

1. See Society and the Dance, ed. Spencer, Paul (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985)Google Scholar.

2. See The Body as a Medium of Expression, ed. Benthall, Jonathan and Polhemus, Ted (London: ICA, 1975)Google Scholar.

3. See The Anthropology of the Body, ed. Blacking, John (London: Academic Press, 1977)Google Scholar.

4. A list, organised into topics/broad disciplinary areas, of dissertations and theses by students of the Laban Centre is produced and regularly updated and can be obtained by writing to: The Librarian, Laban Centre for Movement and Dance, Laurie Grove, New Cross, London SE14 6NH.

5. The Department of Dance Studies at the University of Surrey has just published an annotated bibliography Postgraduate Dissertations and Theses 1984-1994, which can be obtained by writing to: Department of Dance Studies, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 5XH.

6. See Grau's article “John Blacking and the development of dance anthropology in the United Kingdom,” dealing with dance research carried out under the broad umbrella of the social sciences, which appeared in the autumn issue of Dance Research Journal, 1993, 25/2: 21-31.

7. Note that the British generally use the terms “dissertation' and “thesis” in the opposite way to the Americans: a dissertation is produced at the master's level and a thesis at the doctoral level.

8. SCODHE was created in 1983 to become the representative body for dance in higher education. As such it aims to encourage networks for communication between institutions. In 1984 it compiled, for example, the first directory of courses in the country which offered dance to students over the age of seventeen and was the forerunner of Chris Jones's handbook mentioned earlier.

9. We are extremely grateful to Sophia Preston for sharing her information with us. SCODHE is intending to put together a paper documenting the survey in detail for a forthcoming issue of Dance Theatre Journal. We are sure this will be awaited with impatience by the dance research community.

10. Although essentially an independent “theatre” organisation (rather than “dance”) the Centre for Performance Research in Cardiff is important for dance researchers as well. Apart from its “practical” work (which includes productions of innovative performance work, exchanges with major international theatre companies, organisation of master classes, and so on) it has a good research library and is involved in the publication and distribution of books on theatre in its broadest sense (Routledge, , for example published A dictionary of theatre anthropology; the secret art of the performer by Barba, Eugenio and Savarese, Nicola on behalf of CPR in 1991Google Scholar).