AHRC Research Centre for Cross-Cultural Music and Dance Performance
Would you like to be involved? Here’s how:
Many people have expressed an interest in the AHRC Research Centre. We hope you will want to take part! Each Centre project includes workshops and seminars designed to explore research areas and to encourage feedback on Centre research. The Centre has a newsletter and a dedicated website, with notice boards. Within SOAS, UniS and Roehampton, the Centre runs a postgraduate training programme. Many Centre activities are open to the public.
We are excited by the possibilities that the Centre presents. We have dedicated facilities in all three institutions, with state of the art equipment for sound and movement capture and editing. We also host research by many visiting performers and scholars, which increases the practice-based music and dance research and training going on around us. We are keen to involve as many people as possible, and will be happy to your name to our mailing list. We will endeavour to keep you informed of Centre activities.
Our core project invites resident performers to work in the Centre on collaborative research, feeding into all six additional projects, preparing audio CDs, DVDs, and print publications. We also fund specific short projects in which invited scholars—ethnomusicologists, dance scholars, analysts—work with resident performers and other Centre researchers.
While the funding award from the AHRC is committed to projects already planned and committed to, we hope to encourage the development of a number of additional research projects. Some will probably be closely related to the projects we have planned, and some will be more distant in orientation. Several colleagues have successfully submitted applications to funding agencies, using the Centre either as a home for their research, or developing strands that have been identified in Centre projects. We would welcome hearing about your own research, planned and underway. You may wish to use the Centre newsletter and website to disseminate information on your research, and we encourage you to consider submitting materials for consideration in the CD, DVD and book publication series we have begun to develop.
