C-DaRE Postgraduate Research Community
C-DaRE is an exceptional community of artists and researchers doing exciting scholarly inquiry in diverse ways and settings. Remarkably, their deep understanding of what creative and scholarly research practice involve and their humanness craft an environment of support and care. This inspires a genuine search for one’s own voice, empowers the discovery of one’s unique contribution to dance research, and invites action.
Marisa Godoy (graduated 2022)
Current Postgraduate Researchers
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Name Research Title Nina Atkinson Feeling the Dance - Experiencing immersive dance with and without sight Mira Balchandran Gokul Bharatanatyam as a knowledge system; a phenomenological exploration from the dancer's perspective Hank (Robert) Bamberger Body-based Confessional Practice in Killer Heels by Gay Hank Georgina Cockburn Dance as a catalyst for living well; examining the potential for Living Well Hubs to improve people's lives through dance Greta Gauhe Remembering Touch: New Methods for Supporting Bodily Connections Over Distance: A practice-led Community Dance Research Henrietta Hale Relational Practices and the Tavistock Institute’s Archive: embodiment and social engagement Kat Hawkins The role of the understudy in inclusive dance: Appropriation, Accessibility and Otherness Miranda Laurence Bodies in Space and Time: Conceptualising Dance Dramaturgy through Interaction with Architectural Thinking Helen Laws An Investigation into Resistance and Representation: Freelance Dance Artists and the Cultural Ecology Lizzy Le Quesne A Dance of Becoming: Skinner Releasing Technique, New Materialism and a dance practice of somatic autobiography Lola Maury Encouraging enhanced states of sensorial awareness from the spectator Megan Mc Conville Shone Gender and Kinship in Collaborative Theatre David Mellor Smart Cities and AI: supporting ethical development from the bottom up Patricia Melton The Pedagogy of Tap Dance: A Cultural and Historical Perspective on Tap Dance Teaching Strategies And Tap Dancer Learning Styles Hiten Mistry Reshaping the routines of our past into dances of the new normal – the UK South Asian Dance sectors recovery and resocialisation of community dance in a post-pandemic era. Andrea Ondruskova Somatic resonance in frames of domestic labour Louisa Petts The wellbeing of an older dancer: an enquiry into the experience of community dance practice in older
adult populationsRosa Postlethwaite Dramaturgy with Other-Than-Human Species Andrea Puerta Anatomy of the embodiment of images: A theory about the embodiment of images based on the sense experience of dancers and actors in the practice of Skinner Releasing and Lecoq techniques Mandy Rogerson Towards a phenomenology of choreography; exploring modes of meaning making through the sensory / affective feedback loop Josh Slater Falling into Spaces Zrinka Uzbinec A Cute Crash: Cutting Through Violence with Choreography and Cuteness (M4C) Kim Vom Kothen A Transient Space – Filming Dance Jade Ward Mindful Changes: Exploring the benefits of Dance for Health and Hip hop Based-Interventions on Health, Well-being, and Community Cohesion during and post COVID-19 Pandemic Catherine Washbrook Communion, Perception and Creative Making in
Immersive Place Dance PracticeLinda Westmoreland Feel the Fear and Move Any Way: improvised dance and movement as a creative approach to reducing anxiety Mary Wycherley A practice(ing) of responsibility. Artist-curator in a dance, screendance and visual arts triangulation. (working title)
C-DaRE Postgraduate Team
Postgraduate Research Leads
