Past Research Topics
JANE M. BACON (PhD – 2003)
Unveiling the Dance: Arabic Dancing in an Urban English Landscape.
ASTRID BERNKOPF (PhD – 2005)
Narrative Variants and Theatrical Constants: Towards a Dramaturgy of the Ballet Fantastique.
CAROL BISHOP (MPhil – 1994)
Maud Allan: Her Life, Work and Place in Western Early Modern Theatre Dance.
SALLY BOWDEN (PhD – 1993)
Petrouchka in Performance, 1911: Tensions and Illusions.
CAROL BROWN (PhD – 1994)
Inscribing the Body: Feminist Choreographic Practice.
ALEXANDRA CARTER (formerly Hockey) (PhD – 1993)
‘Winged and shivering’: images of dancers in the Alhambra and Empire Ballets 1884–1915.
ESTRELLA CASERO GARCIA (MPhil – 1999)
Women, Fascism and Dance under the Franco Regime (1937–1977).
BRIDGET E CAUTHERY (PhD – 2007)
Trance as Artefact: De-Othering transformative states with reference to examples from contemporary dance in Canada.
KEITH CAVERS (MPhil – 1994)
‘Some Talk Of Alexander’ James Harvey D’Egville and the ‘English’ Ballet 1770–1836.
CHI-FANG CHAO (PhD – 2001)
Dancing and Ritualisation: An ethnographic Study of the Social Performances in Southern Okinawa, Japan.
KISOOK CHO (PhD – 2004)
A Theory and Practice of Choreography towards Overcoming Eurocentrism: the case of South Korean Dance.
EMILYN CLAID (PhD – 1998)
Yes? No! Maybe … The Practice of Seduction in Dance Theatre Performance.
DIANE WAWREJKO COCHRAN (PhD – 2008)
Getting to the Core of ‘X’: an Analysis of the Choreographic Methods of Daniel Nagrin.
ANNE COLE (PhD – 1994)
Partnerships: Dance Artists in Education.
TONI D’AMELIO (PhD – 2004)
Ghost Bodies: History, Performance and Practice in Contemporary Dance in France 1980–2000.
DEVERIL (PhD – 2002)
Digital Dialogism: Dance at the Edge of Language.
SHERRIL DODDS (PhD – 1997)
Video Dance: Hybrid Sites and Fluid Bodies.
RACHEL DUERDEN (formerly Richardson) (PhD – 1994)
Beyond Drama, Beyond Music: The Choreography of Antony Tudor.
JOOLS GILSON-ELLIS (PhD – 2000)
The Feminine/Oral in Contemporary Art Practice.
SAID GRAIOUID (PhD – 2000)
Communication and Everyday Performance: A Study of Post-Tradition in Morocco.
JOANNA HALL (PhD – 2009)
Heterocorporealities: Popular Dance and Cultural Hybridity in Drum ‘n’ Bass Club Culture.
CHRISTINA KOSTOULA (PhD – 2009)
Divided by Ability: A Critique of Inclusion in Dance Education and Performance.
CHRISTINE LARK (PhD – 1999)
The Body Finds a Voice: An Investigation into the Dual Identity of Physical Theatre in Dance and Drama.
HUNG FU LEE (PhD – 2001)
Movement in Shaman Ritual: The Mirecuk Ritual in the Amis Village of Lidlow, Taiwan.
KAI GUNNAR LEHIKOINEN (PhD – 2004)
Stepping ‘Queerly’?: Discourses in Dance Education for Boys in Late 20th Century Finland.
SOPHIE LYCOURIS (PhD – 1996)
Destabilising Dancing: Tensions between the Theory and Practice of Improvisational Performance.
ANNE MAKKONEN (PhD – 2007)
One Past, Many Histories: Loitsu (1933) in the Context of Dance Art in Finland 1917 – 1939.
CAROL MARTIN (PhD – 2009)
Matriarchy and Nation: Mothering English Ballet.
DAVID MEAD (PhD – 2009)
A Creative Ethos: Teaching and Learning at the Cloud Gate Dance School in Taiwan.
VIDA MIDGELOW (PhD – 2003)
Reworking the Ballet: Refiguring the Body and Swan Lake.
CAROL-LYNNE MOORE (PhD – 1999)
The Choreutic Theory of Rudolf Laban; Form and Transformation.
ANN NUGENT (PhD – 2000)
The Architexts of Eidos Telos: A Critical Study Through Intertextuality of the Dance Text Conceived by William Forsythe.
SELMA ODOM (PhD – 1991)
Dalcroze Eurhythmics in England: History of an Innovation in Music and Movement Education.
ADINKU WILLIAM OFOTSU (PhD – 1986)
Towards the National Theatre Concept: A Model for the Development of Dance Education within the Ghanaian University System.
HELEN PARIS (PhD – 2000)
Visceral/Virtual: Performance
An Investigation, Through Embodied Practice, of the Relationships between Live and Mediated Formats in Performance.
PATRICIA PENNY (PhD – 1997)
Contemporary Competitive Ballroom Dancing: an Ethnography.
DANIELA PERAZZO DOMM (PhD – 2008)
Dancing Poetry. Jonathan Burrows’s Reconfiguration of Choreography.
GIANNANDREA POESIO (PhD – 1993)
The Language of Gesture in Italian Dance from Commedia Dell'Arte to Blasis.
SOPHIA PRESTON (PhD – 1995)
Revealing Relationships: an Analysis of the Structural and Expressive Characteristics of Dance and Music in Siobhan Davies’ Bridge the Distance.
HENIA ROTTENBERG (PhD – 2004)
Hybrid Relationships Between Dance and Painting: A Close Examination of Lea Anderson’s The Featherstonehaughs Draw on the Sketch Books of Egon Schiele (1998).
SARAH RUBIDGE (MPhil – 1986)
An Investigation into the Incidence and Role of Dance Education in the Adult Sector with Specific Reference to Dance as a Theatre Art.
LORNA SANDERS (PhD – 2007)
Dance Education Renewed: A reconceptualisation of the subject of dance in education in England and Wales with particular reference to GCSE and GCE A Level.
GUILHERME BARBOSA SCHULZE (PhD – 2005)
Distributed choreography: a framework to support the design of computer-based artefacts for choreographers with special reference to Brazil.
IOANNA TZARTZANI (PhD – 2007)
Interplays of Ethnicity, Nationalism and Globalisation within the Greek contemporary dance scene: Choreographic choices and constructions of national identity.
MARTIN WELTON (PhD – 2002)
Sense and Self: Towards an Embodied Epistemology of Acting.
SUSAN L WIESNER (PhD – 2007)
Framing Dance Writing: A Corpus Linguistics Approach.
FIONA WILKIE (PhD – 2004)
Out of Place: The Negotiation of Space in Site-Specific Performance.
FATIMA AMRANI ZERRIFI (PhD – 2001)
Stripping Off the Veil: Women’s Performances of the Veil from Street to Stage.
