Dance Research Matters Networks Programme Midpoint Event: Making Dance Research Legible

With the theme ‘Making dance research legible in the Creative Industries and beyond,’ the event aims to facilitate knowledge exchange beyond the dance sector and networks, enhancing the visibility of dance research within the broader Creative Industries ecosystem.


...Like a Short Cut Through the Brambles: an Evaluative Performance

This year’s Coventry Biennial aims to take a thought-provoking approach to explore humankind’s complex relationship with the world.


Dance Educator’s Network: Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Symposium

Join us for our participatory day which seeks to foster networking, collaboration, knowledge exchange, and exploration of some transformative practices in Critical Dance Pedagogy.


C-DaRE Invites...The Body and Science: Thinking Bodies and Dancing Brains

Why do we dance, and why are we moved by dance? Emily Cross will present her research followed by a Q&A led by Simon Ellis.


C-DaRE Invites...The Body and Science: Chronic Pain

We have invited four members of the Somatic Practice and Chronic Pain Network to talk online about their research and to be in an open conversation about the intersections between science, art, somatics, the body and pain.


Let's Discuss the Diversity of Chronic Pain

Somatic Practice and Chronic Pain Network webinar


2nd Creative Cultures PGR Conference: (Re)Imagine Creative Cultures

We are excited to present two days of work from our postgraduate researchers at the Institute for Creative Cultures.


C-DaRE invites… Marco Donnarumma – Restless bodies, tame AI and powers of othering

 There are links to be made and implications to be unravelled, ecosystems to be mapped and techno-corporeal experimentation to be performed, if one’s aim is to unfold expressions of power today.


C-DaRE Invites… Lucy Suchman

This event will be an improvised and informal conversation with C-DaRE’s Simon Ellis on topics including the spaces of technological possibility, subjects and objects, embodiment, and the more-than-human.


If the Archive Can’t Consent: Historical Dance Footage, Computer Vision, and the Ethics of AI

As part of The Body and AI series, C-DaRE invites… Kate Elswit and Harmony Bench. If the Archive Can’t Consent: Historical Dance Footage, Computer Vision, and the Ethics of AI


Strictly Inclusive

Come and learn more about the ‘Strictly’ Inclusive project, exploring inclusivity and representation on the popular BBC show.


C-DaRE Invites… Solveig Gade

C-DaRE Invites… you to join Kate and Lily and our guest, sharing their timely research, on this occasion Solveig Gade. Please join us on zoom with your preferred refreshments.


Inclusion and Intersectionality Symposium

The Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE) is hosting the 'Inclusion and Intersectionality' symposium with The Society for Dance Research, in collaboration with Candoco Dance Company.


The Shape of Sound

The project ‘The Shape of Sound’ is a scaled-up installation of elements of the human ear and is a supported projext as part of the Being Human Festival 2021 (Coventry Hub).


Moving Pain Online

This webinar includes a panel discussion on how dance and somatic practices can be shared through digital technologies for people living with pain.


Event - Talking Back: Hip Hop through research and practice

Talking Back: Hip Hop Through Research and Practice is grounded in feminist and critical theorist Bell Hook’s idea of “Talking Back”. This three day event will open up a space to learn more about the five pillars of Hip Hop (Knowledge, style writing/graffiti, b-boying/breaking, Djing, Emceeing) and will allow artists and researchers to sit down and discuss their practice and reflect on their research.


Dance and Machine Learning: Unlocking Embodied Creativity for Generative Art

This seminar looks at research that combines investigations into principles of embodied creativity with the adoption of state-of-the-art methods in machine learning with the goal of enabling new approaches in computer-based generative art and dance technology.


C-DaRE Invites...Coventry Dance

This is an opportunity to find out about Coventry Dance, an organization set up with Coventry University as a partner, to network and connect artists across the city and region.


Chronic Pain: The Fear and Joy of Moving Webinar

A discussion panel with a physiotherapist, psychologist, dancer and person with lived experience of pain on the theme of ‘Chronic pain: the fear and joy of moving’.


C-DaRE Invites...Bodies, AI, Ethics and Diversity

This event is suitable for anyone interested in the ethical development and use of data-driven technology including scholars, scientists, engineers, creative coders, performers and media artists.