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Centre for Dance Research

The Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE) specialises in an inclusive interdisciplinary approach to artistic and scholarly dance research in areas like cultural heritage, computing and AI, intellectual property, health and well-being and practice research.

Dr Simon Ellis

Preserving Europe's dance traditions

The Centre for Dance Research has joined a major international initiative aiming to map and preserve Europe’s dance heritage.

This Extraordinary Ordinariness

Choreographers Siobhan Davies, Rosemary Lee and Jonathan Burrows share a long history of talking together about their shared love of choreographic practice and performance. This Extraordinary Ordinariness is a film of one of these conversations. 

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Siobhan Davies, Rosemary Lee and Jonathan Burrows

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Curated conversations about the role of dance, movement and the body in society and culture.

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a computer-generated image of a man, a machine mimicking an arm, a dancer with thin beams of light aimed at them.

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Dr Simon Ellis

Preserving Europe’s dance traditions through international research project

01 April 2025

Coventry University researchers have joined a major multinational initiative aiming to map and preserve Europe’s dance heritage.

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