Sound Moves? So what do choreographers look for in music and composers in choreography? And how do dancers embody sound and musicians reflect movement in their performances? What kinds of choreomusical relationships exist and how do we talk about them? How similar or different are physical and acoustic gestures? The media collaboration of music and dance is one of the longest established and most frequently discussed, but nonetheless one of the least rigorously explored. Now, strong signals from both scholars and the profession prompt us to generate new thinking about music and dance and to encourage sharing the languages of the two disciplines. Roehampton’s Centre for Dance Research, the internationally recognised centre for choreomusical studies, and Princeton University’s Music Department, with its celebrated record for interdisciplinary research, have joined forces to take this project forward in collaboration with Britain’s Society for Dance Research. The overwhelming response to initial conference announcements has underlined the vital importance and currency of such an event.

The Sound Moves conference involved dance and music historians and theorists, choreographers and composers, professional dancers and musicians, teachers and students. It comprised performance, lecture-demonstrations and papers on a wide range of topics – historical representations from Renaissance to present day, popular culture and high art forms, ballet and contemporary dance, interactive settings, performance training and cultural hybrids. It also introduced a number of interdisciplinary theoretical perspectives – such as structural analysis, gestural relationships, intertextual and gender explorations, as well as the notion of viewing work as meta-discourse on dance and music. Downloads Original conference programme Conference proceedings Conference Organisation Sound Moves was hosted by Roehampton University - Centre for Dance Research in collaboration with Princeton University, Department of Music and The Society for Dance Research Conference Committee Stephanie Jordan, Simon Morrison (co-chairs), Toby Bennett, Helena Hammond, Barley Norton, Jane Pritchard, Erica Stanton International Advisors: Inger Damsholt, Marian Smith, Marta Robertson Acknowledgements We are grateful to the following sponsors for their generous help towards this conference:- The Radcliffe Trust The Society for Dance Research The British Academy Chester Music Princeton University Roehampton University