Dance and Spectacle
Dance and Spectacle interrogates dance's complex historical relationship with the society and politics of the spectacle in the widening fields of site-specific performance, screen studies and popular dance. The theme of dance and spectacle will form a strand of the discussion topics addressed at the 2009 Popular Dance and Music Matters Symposium and will be the title of the 2010 Society of Dance History Scholars international conference which will be hosted by the Department.
Research Projects
2008
Jackson and Lawrence are choreographing The Nuclei Project in collaboration with colleagues from Music and Physics, Surrey. The score is derived from the atomic vibrations of selected elements.
Events and Performances
2008
Conversations with Choreographers, hosted by Kate Lawrence, University of Surrey.
October 2007
Popular Dance and Music symposium with the Department of Music and Sound Recording.
2002
High Art
Lawrence has created multi-media installations that provide new perspectives on visual spectacle in unusual locations, such as climbing gyms.
2001
Lawrence created a St Catherine’s Chapel promenade performance for Year of the Artist.
Publications
Dodds’s Dance on Screen (Palgrave 2001) set "a high standard of scholarship" for this field (Dance Research).
Networks
The Popular Culture Forum with the Departments of Sociology, Culture, Media and Communications.
Lawrence has been involved in strategic partnerships with local government and regional arts authorities on site-specific performance, in particular Woking, Bristol and South East Arts Council.