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Centre for Dance Research

The Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE) specialises in an inclusive interdisciplinary approach to artistic and scholarly dance research in areas like cultural heritage, computing and AI, intellectual property, health and well-being and practice research.

Dame Siobhan Davies

Dame Siobhan Davies wins De Valois Award for Outstanding Achievement at National Dance Awards

Recognised as one of the most influential contemporary choreographers, Dame Siobhan Davies has worked in the field for more than 50 years and was given the award for her significant impact on dance in the UK and beyond.

This Extraordinary Ordinariness

Choreographers Siobhan Davies, Rosemary Lee and Jonathan Burrows share a long history of talking together about their shared love of choreographic practice and performance. This Extraordinary Ordinariness is a film of one of these conversations. 

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Siobhan Davies, Rosemary Lee and Jonathan Burrows

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Dame Siobhan Davies

Choreographer Dame Siobhan Davies wins De Valois Award for Outstanding Achievement at National Dance Awards

22 July 2025

A choreographer at Coventry University’s Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE) has received the highest honour at the National Dance Awards - the De Valois Award for Outstanding Achievement.

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