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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.

Welly O'Brien

Using AI and robotics to rethink how performance is archived

Professor Sarah Whatley, Dr Kate Marsh and Lily Hayward-Smith are generating knowledge about how AI can be used responsibly and creatively to create, revive and conserve complex artworks. 

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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Curated conversations about the role of dance, movement and the body in society and culture.

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a computer-generated image of a man, a machine mimicking an arm, a dancer with thin beams of light aimed at them.

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Dance researchers use AI and robotics to rethink how we archive and access performance

29 April 2025

Coventry University’s Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE) is playing a leading role in a new initiative that aims to explore how artificial intelligence (AI) could protect artistic heritage and create more opportunities in the creative sector.

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