Why Dance Research Matters
Professor Sarah Whatley has authored a blog on Why Dance Research Matters - exploring how dance research brings people together, addresses global challenges and generates new knowledge through embodied experience.
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.
Girls in Dance Festival
C-DaRE researchers will be at the Girls in Dance Festival supported by AWA Dance on Monday 28 July.
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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C-DaRE invites...
Curated conversations about the role of dance, movement and the body in society and culture.
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Latest news
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.
