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I am currently Emeritus Professor of Dance History and Ethnography and continue to be research active. Until August 2020, I supervised PhD students and taught on the MA Dance Anthropology, the collaborative Choreomundus: International Master in Dance Knowledge, Practice and Heritage and contributed to the MA Dance, Philosophy and History. I joined Roehampton in 2013 and my previous positions include Head of Dance at the University of Surrey and Professor of Performing Arts at De Montfort University.
To date, I have examined over thirty doctorates in Dance and supervised eighteen to successful completion in the subject. My specialisms are dance history (especially nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century British), dance anthropology and folk dance.
A pioneer of teaching popular dance in higher education in England, I have published numerous research articles on popular and social dance and on dance as cultural memory. My principal edited books include the following international collections: Dance in the Field: Theory, Methods and Issues in Dance Ethnography (Macmillan, 1999) Dancing from Past to Present: Nation, Culture, Identities (University of Wisconsin Press, 2006) and and Folklore Revival Movements in Europe post 1950: Shifting Perspectives (with D. Stavělová, 2018).
My monograph Society Dancing: Fashionable Bodies in England, 1870-1920 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) charts the changes in social dancing from the late Victorian period to the beginnings of modern English ballroom dancing. The book raises issues of movement socialisation, class and gender, national identity, self-expression and cultural leadership that resonate across the wider dance culture of modern Britain.
Recent publications include a study of the development of the modern waltz in early twentieth-century England (Dance Research, 2018), issues of gender in morris dancing in the 1970s (2018), and dance as an academic discipline in nineteeth-century Britain (Victorian Culture and the Origin of Disciplines, 2019). I am currently working on an article on couple dancers and modernity and chapters for the Oxford Handbook of Ethnochoreology (postmillenial approaches to ethnography and history), Bloomsbury's A Cultural History of Dance (dance, religion and ritual in the nineteenth-century) and the Oxford Handbook of Musical Biography and Life-Writing (historical biographies of dancers).
Social and danced relations across stage and street, particularly in the long nineteenth century; dance history and historiography; theory of dance anthropology, ethnochoreology and ethnography.
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Theresa Buckland (Recipient)
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