Dance research is the study of
dance
Dance is a performing art form consisting of sequences of movement, either improvised or purposefully selected. This movement has aesthetic and often symbolic value. Dance can be categorized and described by its choreography, by its repertoir ...
, including
dance history,
ethnochoreology
Ethnochoreology (also dance ethnology, dance anthropology) is the study of dance through the application of a number of disciplines such as anthropology, musicology, ethnomusicology, and ethnography. The word itself is relatively recent and etym ...
,
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".
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 sport and physical activity promote health and performance from cellular to whole body perspectives. The study of sports science traditionally inc ...
. Its aims are the enhancement of performance, the reduction of injury, and the improvement of well-being and health.
Organizations
*
Congress on Research in Dance (founded in 1965 as a Committee on Research in Dance)
*
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, and ...
*
Society of Dance History Scholars
*
Cross-Cultural Dance Resources
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
The University of California Press, otherwise known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing. It was founded in 1893 to publish scholarly and scientific works by faculty ...
.
{{dance-stub