New Scholarship Award Launched!! The Dance Research Advisory Board is pleased to announce that Dance Research, the journal of the Society for Dance Research, invites applications for the newly instituted McGowan-Crisp Award for New Scholarship in Dance. See bio for link to application guidelines.

⏰ * Tuesday 24 June, 6–7.30pm!

It’s almost time for … our next Choreographic Forum! Join us online on 🗓️ Tuesday 24 June, 6–7pm for a discussion on 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘥 by choreographer Bawren Tavaziva. Register here: tinyurl.com/greed-sdr 📷 Raluca Maria Polodeanu

Exploring the non-auditory dimensions of sound: Christine Sun Kim uses musical notation, infographics & language to share her Deaf lived experience in her survey show @whitney.org

New pub alert: I wrote about De Keersmaeker's staging of Rilke's The Cornet, including her engagement with its afterlife in World War II. About how her choreography explores its powerful imagery and form, and her evocation of the Nazi salute. doi.org/10.3366/drs....

With presentations by Dr Adesola Akinleye, Professor Ann R. David, Christina Fulcher and Ruth Anna Phillips on topics including the tools of neurodiversity in theatre and dance processes, transdisciplinarity, and image permissions for publication ⬇️ Do not miss it!

🎉 Join @sdanceresearch.bsky.social to celebrate the Ivor Guest Award Recipients! 🗓️ Fri 30 May 2025 | 6–7:30pm | 📍Online 🎟️ Register for a Free ticket: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... 💖 To Donate & Support future grants, if you can: justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

… plot twist. #Dance #TheNutcracker #MouseKing

The Society for Dance Research is dedicated to advancing the study, education, and appreciation of dance in all its forms. In line with our mission, we offer financial support to artist practitioners, and early-career and established researchers through our Ivor Guest Research Grants.

UK performing arts associations have written a public letter to the REF2029 director that complements the recent joint English associations' letter: dramahe.ac.uk/activity/joi...

Take a peek inside the latest issue of our open access, peer-reviewed journal, published by @edinburghup.bsky.social (cover below) – a tribute to a profoundly original dancer and choreographer, the late Steve Paxton: www.euppublishing.com/toc/drs/curr...

Hello Bluesky! We are excited to be sharing the recordings from our past Choreographic Forums in case they are of interest to any practitioners or dance researchers ⬇️

a while ago in Istanbul learning a movement from Yeşim Coşkun’s ‘4Kapı 40Makam’ (2011) to create Kinetography Laban score of the choreography #movementnotation #kinetographylaban #labanotation #4kapi40makam @yesimcoskun