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Dance Studies is a major academic and practice field and the 2017 Dance Fields Conference staked a claim for Dance Studies in the 21st century. The twelve essays collected here capture much of the range and spirit of the conference presentations. The co-conveners of the conference and now editors of the collection invited contributions that covered multiple themes, including the documentation of overlooked or emerging histories; new critical insights, initiatives and perspectives (including inventive dissemination platforms); fresh interdisciplinary exchanges or other innovative insights. Authors include practitioners, teachers and researchers from a range of backgrounds and geographical locations. The editors have organised the book into a series of companion writings; companion because they focus on a similar or related theme, or method. Several chapters are co-authored, revealing the companionship that is a common feature of teaching, practice and research in Dance Studies more generally.

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The authors and editors are all leading experts in the field of Dance Studies. Michael Huxley is Emeritus Reader in Dance and former Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Dance (CIRID) at De Montfort University, UK. He has been published in a number of books and has written for dance periodicals including Dance Chronicle, Research in Dance Education, Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices, Journal of Dance, Movement and Spiritualities and Discourses in Dance. His published research has been about early modern dance and history, particularly the work of Kurt Jooss and Wassily Kandinsky. He was a board member of the Congress on Research in Dance (CORD) for ten years and Editorial Board Chair for Dance Research Journal (2005-2010). He was Senior Academic Adviser Dance for PALATINE. He was Project Leader for the Centre for Excellence in Performance Arts, CEPA, at DMU (2005-10). His books include The Dancer's World 1920-1945 (Palgrave 2015) and, with Ramsay Burt, Dance, Modernism, and Modernity (Routledge 2020). Ann R David, PhD, is Professor of Dance and Cultural Engagement at the University of Roehampton, London. She specialises in dance anthropology and South Asian classical and popular dance and her dance training includes ballet, contemporary, folk dance, as well as bharatanatyam and kathak. Ann's research work focuses on dance and ritual practices in UK Indian communities investigating issues of migration, identity and embodiment, and the gestural, narrative and ritual practices of bharatanatyam. She has published widely on this work, as well as on dance in Bollywood, and on the ritual dances of Tibetan Buddhism and is currently working on a monograph of Indian dancer Ram Gopal. Ann is passionate about the need for the arts and dance in education, working closely with policy makers in the arts, and is on the Board of several arts organisations. She has given public talks at the V&A, the British Library, British Museum and National Portrait Gallery and been involved in post-show discussions at Asia House, Nehru Centre, Sadler's Wells, Southbank and Bhavan. Sarah Whatley is Professor of Dance and Director of the Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE) at Coventry University. Much of her research focuses on the discourses that emerge through the body as a site of knowledge and expressive communication, and how dance generates different textual strategies for transmitting and disseminating the physical intelligence of the moving body. Whilst her research expertise is primarily in dance it is characterised by its emphasis on transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary practice, working with artists, designers and researchers from other disciplines including law, anthropology, psychology, digital media and computing science. Her projects, funded by the AHRC, European Commission and various Trusts, focus on dance and disability, digital cultural content, smart learning environments for dancers, reimagining dance archives and dance documentation. She is founding Editor of the Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices and sits on the Editorial Boards of several other Journals.

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