Dance research is the study of
dance
Dance is an The arts, art form, consisting of sequences of body movements with aesthetic and often Symbol, symbolic value, either improvised or purposefully selected. Dance can be categorized and described by its choreography, by its repertoir ...
, including
dance history,
ethnochoreology,
dance theory, dance anthropology, and
dance science.
Dance research as an academic discipline is relatively new. In 1967, the first volume of the ''CORD Dance Research Annual'' wrote: "One of the most serious problems in dance research is found in the fact that the literati in the field are not yet the university people". Research methodologies in Dance can include descriptive research, qualitative research, survey research, correlational research, case studies, within-subject experiments, between group experiments, systematic reviews, and epidemiology research. In addition to research concerned with technical or aesthetic aspects of dance, research in the field of dance also often includes connections to scholarly disciplines that place dance in context, including social and literary history, philosophy, anthropology, and medical science.
Dance science is the scientific study of dance and dancers, as well as the practical application of scientific principles to dance, similar to
sports science
Sports science is a discipline that studies how the healthy human body works during exercise, and how sports and physical activity promote health and performance from cellular to whole body perspectives. The study of sports science traditionally i ...
. Its aims are the enhancement of performance, the reduction of injury, and the improvement of well-being and health. While the dance sciences span a wide range of domains within which researchers and practitioners have a variety of backgrounds, a unifying interest of those studying and practicing dance science is promoting health, well-being, and optimum performance in dancers.
Organizations
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Congress on Research in Dance (founded in 1965 as a Committee on Research in Dance)
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Society for Ethnomusicology
The Society for Ethnomusicology is, with the International Council for Traditional Music and thBritish Forum for Ethnomusicology one of three major international associations for ethnomusicology. Its mission is "to promote the research, study, an ...
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Society of Dance History Scholars
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Cross-Cultural Dance Resources
Cross-Cultural Dance Resources (CCDR) is a non-profit dance research organization in the United States, formed in 1981 and based in Tempe, Arizona. It maintains a non-lending library devoted to the study of dance, with over 15,000 shelved items pl ...
Society for Dance Research
References
Further reading
* Braun, Lesley Nicole. 2014. "Trading Virtue for Virtuosity: The Artistry of Kinshasa's Concert Danseuses." ''African Arts'' 47(4): 48-57.Castaldi, Francesca. 2006. ''Choreographies of African Identities: Negritude, Dance, and the National Ballet of Senegal''. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press.
* Cohen, Adrienne. 2016. "Inalienable Performances, Mutable Heirlooms: Dance, Cultural Inheritance, and Political Transformation in the Republic of Guinea." ''American Ethnologist'' 43(4): 650-662.
* Daniel, Yvonne. 1995. ''Rumba: Dance and Social Change in Contemporary Cuba''. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.Foster, Susan Leigh. 1996. ''Corporealities: Dancing Knowledge Culture and Power''. Edited by Susan Leigh Foster. London: Routledge.
* Dunham, Katherine. 1969. ''Island possessed''. University of Chicago Press.
* Franko, Mark. "Dance and the political: States of exception." ''Dance Research Journal'' (2006): 3-18.
* Ross, Janice. 2015. ''Like a Bomb Going Off: Leonid Yakobson and Ballet as Resistance in Soviet Russia.'' Yale University Press.
* Schauert, Paul. 2015. ''Staging Ghana: Artistry and Nationalism in State Dance Ensembles.'' Indiana University Press.
* Wilcox, Emily. 2018. ''
Revolutionary Bodies: Chinese Dance and the Socialist Legacy''.
University of California Press
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