Roehampton University
Open Spaces. Open Minds.
AHRC Research Centre for Cross-Cultural Music and Dance Performance
The Centre was inaugurated on 1 September 2002 as a collaboration between three pioneering and established departments that lead their respective academic fields in Britain:
- the Department of Music at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)
- the Department of Dance Studies, part of the School of Performing Arts at the University of Surrey (UniS)
- the School of Arts at Roehampton University.
In its research, the Centre addressed questions raised by the performance of sound and movement, particularly within Asian and African artistic practice, seeking a symbiosis between the performance concerns of ethnomusicology and musicology, and exploring analysis methodologies utilised in theatre and dance research. The Centre invited Asian and African experts to work with its researchers so that different forms of knowledge can be brought together.
To find out more about the Centre's activities, see the links below: