Professor Andree Grau

 

Job Title: Professor Qualifications: Telephone: +44 (0)20 8392 3372 Email Address: A.Grau@roehampton.ac.uk

Biographical details

Andrée Grau trained in dance in her native Switzerland and
in London. She graduated from the Benesh Institute in 1976
and was awarded an MA in Social-Anthropology
(Ethnomusicology/Ethnochoreology) and PhD in Social-
Anthropology from The Queen's University of Belfast,
respectively in 1979 and 1983.  She has carried out fieldwork
in Southern Africa, among the Venda; Aboriginal Australia,
among the Tiwi of Melville and Bathurst Islands; India
(Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka,Gujarat) and London, looking
at performance from cross-cultural and interdisciplinary
perspectives.  
She has published - in English as well as French - in
academic as well as professional journals within the fields of
dance, music, visual anthropology and social anthropology.
She has contributed to a number of encyclopaedias, writing
entries for Australian Aboriginal dance and Eastern and
Southern African dance.

She regularly presents her work at conferences in Europe,
Asia, Australia and North America and acts as consultant for
television, radio, and publishers in the UK and overseas.

She directed the Leverhulme project 'South Asian Dance in
Britain: Negotiating cultural identity through dance' (1998-
2001) and is assistant director of the AHRB (Arts and
Humanities Research Board) Centre for Cross-Cultural Music
and Dance Performance, a collaboration between SOAS
(School of Oriental and African Studies, London University),
UniS (University of Surrey Guildford) and Roehampton.  

Role and Responsibilities

Andrée Grau is a reader in the Anthropology of Dance,Programme Convener for the MA Dance Anthropology and Coordinator of the MA/MFA Dance Cluster

Teaching

Her main teaching lies in the area of the anthropology of
performance. Her research interests are: dance and identity;
dance in transnational contexts; cross-cultural concepts of
classicism; cross-cultural conceptualisation of the body;
dance and postcolonialism.

Publications

(2008) Dance and the Shifting Sands of Multiculturalism: Questions from the United Kingdom, New Delhi: Tulika Books, 232-252.

(2007) Dance, identity, and identification processes in a post-colonial world, London Routledge, 189-207.

(2007) Political activism and South Asian dance, South Asia Research, 27 (1), 43-55.

(2006) Innings 84 Not Out, Pulse, South Asian Dance in the UK, 15, 24-25.

Georgianna Wierre-Gore (2005) Anthropologie de la danse: genèse et construction d'une discipline, Paris: Centre National de la Danse (collection recherches), 317pp.

(2005) Cultural democracy or postcolonial pilfering?: dancers’ contested identities’ , Society for Ethnomusicology 50th Anniversary meeting, Atlanta, USA .

(2005) Danza, identità e processi d'identificazione in un mondo postcoloniale, in Susanne Franco and Marina Nordera eds I discorsi della danza. Parole chiave per una metodologia della ricerca, Torino: UTETLibreria, 229-245.

(2005) Hindutva versus art against violence: Mallika Sarabhai and the BJP’ , CORD Conference on Dance and Human, Université du Quebec à Montréal, Canada .

(2005) La relation entre la musique et la danse chez les Tiwi d’Australie, Journées d’études: Danse et enseignement des musiques traditionelles, conference presentation) Cité de la Musique, Paris.

(2005) Political Activism and South Asian Dance, Nartan, a national conference on South Asian dance, CICD Leicester.

(2005) Response to Luciana Fina’s film O Encontro (2004), conference presentation at ‘VideoDanza Fim Fest’, international video-dance festival organised by Majazé: magazzino culturale, Catania, Sicily .

(2005) Sound of Silence, Pulse, South Asian Dance in the UK, 12, 38.

(2005) The evolutionary significance of dance, Radio 4.

(2005) When the landscape becomes flesh: An investigation into body boundaries with special reference to Tiwi dance and Western classical ballet, Body & Society, 11 (4), 141-163.

(2004) Can't Dance, Won't Dance, Women's Hour Radio 4.

(2004) Dance as a way into Tiwi culture’, Dance, music, and the study of culture: the Austronesian perspective, National Dong-Hwa University, Hua-Lien, Taiwan .

(2004) Hindutva versus ‘art against violence’:the vilification of Mallika Sarabhai by the BJP, ICTM Colloquium “Discord: Identifying Conflict within Music, Resolving Conflict through Music.”, 3rd-6th September 2004: Limerick, Ireland.

(2004) Who is ‘missionising’ who?: Tiwi dancers and the Mission of the Sacred Heart in Northern Australia, Music/dance and Christian Missionization panel. 37th World Conference of the International Council for Traditional Music, Fuzhou and Quanzhou, People’s Republic of China .

(2003) A sheltering sky? - Negotiating identity through South Asian dance, No Man’s Land – Exploring South Asianness Symposium Report by Shiromi Pinto http://www.akademi.co.uk/download/NML_report.pdf, 26-37.

(2003) Bharata Natyam, communauté et héritage culturel, Claire Rousier ed Être ensemble Pantin: Centre National de la Danse, 285-296 .

(2003) Documenting dancers’ lineages , 4th International Seminar for New Ethnochoreologists, University of Trondheim, Norway.

(2003) Tiwi Dance Aesthetics, Yearbook for Traditional Music, 35, 175-180.

(2003) When the landscape becomes flesh: Unbounded bodies among an Aboriginal people, Anglo-American History conference, Institute of Historical Research London.

(2002) Dance in Indian Cinema, Cinema India; The Art of Bollywood, Victoria and Albert Museum, London .

(2002) Ethno-Aesthetics and the Tiwi of Northern Australia, Ethnochoreology Study Group, International Council for Traditional Music, Szeged, Hungary.

(2002) Postcolonial theory, Red Guard rhetoric, and South Asian Dance, Part of panel ‘Dance and Postcolonialism: South Asian dance in Britain as case study’ at Roehampton @ Riverside, London.

(2002) Review essay Ballet in Western Culture (by Carol Lee 2002 London: Routledge), Dance Gazette, 2, 44-45.

Stacey Prickett (2002) South Asian Aesthetic Unwrapped: Symposium Report , http://www.akademi.co.uk/productions.htm.

(2002) South Asian Dance in Britain, Leverhulme Trust, 1-85.

(2002) South Asian Dance in Britain, Leverhulme Trust, , 1-85.

(2001) Dance and cultural identity, Animated, Autumn, 23-26.

(2001) Dance and cultural identity, World conference of the International Council for Traditional Music, Rio do Janeiro.

(2001) Epistemology of fieldwork: working in a complex culturally diverse society, 3rd Ethnochoreology Seminar, Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand.

(2001) Rêve et mémoire: incorporation de la connaissance chez les danseurs aborigènes Tiwi, La transmission de l'experience en danse: mémoire, histoire, culture, Symposium international en anthropologie de la danse , Laboratoire d'anthropologie des pratiques corporelles, UFR STAPS en collaboration avec CNRS, Laboratoire d'anthropologie sociale "Dyre", Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand.

(2001) Review of Hugo Zemp’s Les danses du monde, Yearbook of the International Council for Traditional Music.

(2001) Ritual dance and “modernisation”: The Tiwi example, 2001 Yearbook for Traditional Music, 33, 72-81.

John Bailey (2001) Study Guide for Domba 1956-1958: A personal record of Venda initiation rites, songs & dances, No2 , Audiovisual Series of the Society for Ethnomusicology. Bloomington, Indiana: The Society for Ethnomusicology. Filmed & edited by John Blacking, 1-47.

(2001) Tiwi Catholicism: Dance and religious syncretism among a Northern Aboriginal people, Faith in the Millennium, Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, Eds. S Porter, M.A. Hayes and D.Tombs, 468-480.

(2001) Tiwi dance, in John Whiteoak and Aline Scott-Maxwell eds. Companion to Music and Dance in Australia, Sydney: Currency Press.

(2001) Tradition, cosmopolitisme ou zapping culturel?: la danse indienne au Royaume Uni, European Association of Dance History Scholar, Zed Centre Paris.

(2000) Dance and language: a view from anthropology, Articulations: exploring dance and writing, conference paper for Society for Dance Research, Laban Centre London and Dance Theatre Journal.

Stephanie Jordan (2000) Europe Dancing: perspectives on theatre dance and cultural identit London: Routledge, .

(2000) Land, Body, and poetry: an integrated Aesthetic among the Tiwi, in Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and CultureOxford: Oxford University Press,, 356-361.

(2000) Venda music and dance in the 1970s, 16th Annual Conference of the ESEM (European Seminar in Ethnomusicology): John Blacking's Legacy. Belfast.

(1999) Creative interdisciplinarity or intercultural mongrelism? Views from South Asian Dance, Momentum conference, Manchester Metropolitan University.

(1999) Dans, Stockholm: Bonnier Carlson Bokforlag.

(1999) Fieldwork in small scale and in large heterogeneous societies , Dance Ethnography Conference , University of Surrey Guildford.

(1999) Fieldwork, politics and Power, in Theresa Buckland ed. Dance in the Field: Theory, methods and issues in dance ethnography, London: Macmillan Press, 163-174.

(1999) La Danza, Novara: Istituto Geografico de Agostini.

(1999) Land, body and poetry: an integrated dance aesthetic among the Tiwi of Northern Australia, Comhaimseartha (Of our times) series of public concerts and seminars, Irish World Music Centre, University of Limerick, Eire.

(1999) Paysage, corps et poésie: une esthétique integrée de la danse chez les aborigènes Tiwi , La danse: une culture en mouvement Strasbourg: Université Marc Bloch ?Centre de Recherches Européennes en Education Corporelle , 377-385.

(1999) Paysage, corps et poésie: une esthétique intégrée de la danse chez les aborigènes Tiwi, in La Danse: une Culture en Mouvement Strasbourg: Université Marc Bloch, Centre de Recherches Européennes en Education Corporelle, 377-386.

(1999) Power, syncretism and agency: Dance and the appropriation of Catholicism among a Northern Aboriginal People, 21st Symposium of the Study Group on Ethnochoreology, Korcula (Croatia).

(1999) Tanz, Hildesheim: Gerstenberg, 60pp.

(1999) Torched by fire: summarising and elaborating symbols among the Tiwi of Northern Australia, Music Department, Ethnomusicology Programme, London University Goldsmith's College.

(1998) Body as display - Body as cultural microcosm: Western theatre dancersand Tiwi dancers' conceptualisations of the body, 'Research cluster on the body and embodiment' at Edith Cowan University , Perth, Australia.

(1998) Central and East Africa, in Selma Jeanne Cohen, ed. International Encyclopedia of Dance. New-York: Oxford University Press, 86-93.

(1998) Danse et "pensée" symbolique: danser la parenté chez les Tiwi de l'Australie du Nord, in Alain Montandon ed. Sociopoétique de la danse [Sociopoetic of the Dance] Paris: Anthropos, 15-26.

(1998) Eyewitness Dance, , London: Dorling Kindersley.

(1998) Iconography of ancient dance, review of Alessandra Iyer's Prambanan: sculpture and dance in ancient Java, Times Higher Education Supplement 4th December, 31.

(1998) L’acquisition de connaissance: l’apprentissage par le corps des liens de parenté chez les Tiwi de l’Australie du nord , Nouvelles de danse: Danse nomade , 34/5, 68-87.

(1998) L'acquisition de connaissance: l'apprentissage, par le corps, des liens de parenté chez les Tiwi d'Australie du Nord, Nouvelles de Danse: Danse Nomade, 34/35, 68-87.

(1998) Myths of Origins, in Alexandra Carter ed. The Routledge Dance Studies Reader, London: Routledge , 197-202 .

(1998) On the acquisition of knowledge: teaching kinship through the body among the Tiwi of Northern Australia, in Verena Keck ed. Knowing Oceania: Constituting Knowledge and Identities, Oxford: Berg Publishers, 71-94.

(1998) On the concept of "African" dance, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Perth .

(1998) Review of William McNeill's Keeping together in time: dance And drill in human history, 1995 Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 4 (2), 373.

(1998) South Africa (Indigenous Dance), in Selma Jeanne Cohen, ed. International Encyclopedia of Dance. New-York: Oxford University Press, 643-649.

(1998) Southern Africa , in Selma Jeanne Cohen, ed. International Encyclopedia of Dance. New-York: Oxford University Press, 661-666.

(1998) Tiwi (Australia) dance, Northern Territory, in Kaeppler, Adrienne and J.W. Love eds. The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Vol.9: Australia and the Pacific Islands New York: Garland Publishing, Inc, 455-457.

(1998) Tiwi dance, in Selma Jeanne Cohen, ed. International Encyclopedia of Dance. New-York: Oxford University Press, 224-225.

(1998) Tiwi dance and embodied knowledge', Seminar in the Antropology Department, the University of Western Australia, Perth.

(1997) Critical debate around Bharata Natyam in Britain: Old Paths, New Directions, ADiTi, the National Organisation of South Asian Dance in collaboration with the Nehru Centre and Middlesex University.

(1997) Dance, South Asian Dance and Higher Education' , Choreography and Dance: South Asian Dance: The British Experience. Harwood Academic Publishers.

(1997) Dancers' bodies as the repository of conceptualisations of the body, with special reference to the Tiwi of Northern Australia, Proceedings of International Association for Semiotic Studies, Fifth Congress, 1994 - University of California, Berkeley. The Hague: Mouton, 929-932.

(1997) Danse et pensée symbolique: danser la parenté chez les Tiwi de l'Australie du nord, 'Sociopoétique de la danse' international dance conference held at Moulin, France, organised by Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France .

(1997) Review essay of Rumba: dance and social change in contemporary Cuba, by Yvonne Daniel, 1995, Bloomington: Indiana University Press; Samba: resistance in motion, by Barbara Browning, 1995, Bloomington: Indiana University Press; Tango and the political economy of passion, by Marta Savigliano, 1995, Boulder, San Francisco, Oxford: Westview Press, Dance Research, 15 (1), 79-88.

(1997) Social practices, bodies, and human evolution: dance and the embodiment of knowledge, Congress on Research in Dance, The University of Arizona, Tucson.

(1996) Dance and everyday experience, Blitz' 96 The Mag: Dance Theatre Journal Supplement 1996. London: Royal Festival Hall, 41-43.

(1996) Dance, South Asian Dance and Higher Education, in Alessandra Iyer ed. South Asian Dance: the British Experience. Harwood Academic Publisher (Choreography and Dance series), 55-62.

(1996) Dancers' bodies as the repository of conceptualisations of the body, with special reference to the Tiwi of Northern Australia, Proceedings of International Association for Semiotic Studies, Fifth Congress, 1994 University of California, Berkeley, The Hague: Mouton.

Stephanie Jordan (1996) Following Sire Fred’s Steps: Ashton’s Legacy , London: Dance Books.

(1996) Performance and the postmodern turn: from the Tiwi to performing ethnography, Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth, Swansea.

(1995) Dance as part of the infrastructure of social life , in John Baily ed. John Blacking: the Belfast Years, The World of Music: Journal of the International Institute for Traditional Music , 37(2) , 43-5.

Stephanie Jordan (1995) Dance Research in the United Kingdom , Dance Research Journal , 27(2):, 77-80.

(1995) Folk dance in relation to the future of European culture(s), in Carla van Splunteren et al eds. Taken at the flood: art in our times, Berlin: European League for The Institute of the Arts., 105.

(1995) On the notion of bodily intelligence: cognition, corporeality and dance, Border Tensions: Dance and Discourse Proceedings of the fifth study of Dance conference University of Surrey, Guildford, 141-148.

(1995) Review of Drid William's Ten Lectures on the Theories of the Dance, Ethnomusicology, 39(1):, 139-142.

(1995) Ritual Dance and "Modernisation": the Tiwi Example, Proceedings of the 18th Symposium of the ICTM Study group on Ethnochoreology Warsaw: Polish Academy of Science.

(1995) Social practices, bodies, and human evolution: dancer's bodies as world views, 'Bodily fictions, Brunel University College.

(1994) Concepts of Identity an Alterity in Intercultural Performances, Erasmus Seminar: Identities of Dance in Contemporary Europe, organised by the University of Surrey in collaboration with Roehampton Institute and the Laban Centre 17-19 March.

(1994) Dance as part of the infrastructure of social life , the Centre for Ethnomusicology, Music Department, London University Goldsmith's College.

(1994) Dance as politics: the use of dance for the manipulation of the social order among the Tiwi of Northern Australia, Proceedings of the 17h Symposium of the International Council for Traditional Musics, Study group on Ethnochoreology, Nafplion: Folklore Museum.

(1994) Dance in the contexts of interculturalism and nationalism, 'Internationalism as an antidote?: art education vs nationalism and regionalism', chaired by Sybren piersma, at 'Taken at the flood: art in our times', conference of the European League for The Institute of the Arts' meeting, Berlin.

(1994) Dancers' bodies as repositories of conceptualisations of the body, Congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies, University of California, Berkeley.

(1994) Feminist Ethnography: a review essay , Dance Research , 12(1), 12-19.

(1994) Folk dance in relation to the future of European culture(s), 'Taken at the flood: art in our times', conference of the European League for The Institute of the Arts' meeting, Berlin.

(1994) Interculturalism and gender, 3rd International Symposium and Festival of the Centre for Intercultural Music Arts, Department of Music, City University, London.

(1994) Ritual Dance and "Modernisation": the Tiwi Example, 18th Symposium of the ICTM Study group on Ethnochoreology, Skierniewice, Poland.

(1994) The Body as Repository of a World View among the Tiwi of Northern Australia, 'Reflections on the body', the 3rd Goldsmiths Anthropology of Dance Colloquium, Goldsmiths College, University of London.

(1993) Choreographing the Other: an exploration of alterity and ethnicity in dance, Society for Dance Research conference, Institut Français, London.

(1993) Cultural Fusion, Chisenhale Dance Space, London.

(1993) Gender interchangeability among the Tiwi , in Helen Thomas ed.Dance, Gender, and Culture, , London: Macmillan, 94-111.

(1993) John Blacking and the development of Dance Anthropology in the UK , Dance Research Journal, 25(2), 21-31.

(1993) Myths of origin, Dance Now , 2(4), 38-43.

Moe Dodson (1993) Review Essay of Dancing, Series of eight one hour television programmes, produced by Thirteen/WNET in association with RM Arts & BBC-TV. Accompanying book Dancing: the pleasure, power, and art of movement by Gerald Jonas (New York: Abrams, 1992) , British Journal of Ethnomusicology , 2, 168-169.

(1993) Review of 1991 Yearbook for Traditional Music, Dance Research , 11(1), 66-67.

(1992) Dance as politics: the use of dance for the manipulation of the social order among the Tiwi of Northern Australia, 17th Symposium of the International Council for Traditional Music , Study group on Ethnochoreology, Nafplion, Greece.

(1992) Intercultural Research in the Performing Arts, Dance Research , 10(2), 3-29.

(1992) Le corps humain en tant que construction sociale, Séminaire international 'L'héritage Isadorien dans la création chorégraphique contemporaine', La Ciotat, France.

(1992) Les danses rituelles Tiwi, Cahiers de Musiques Traditionelles, 5, 205-216.

(1992) Review 'The dancer and the dance', a film directed by Felica Hughes-Freeland, distributed by the Royal Anthropological Institute, Visual Anthropology , 5, 97-101.

(1991) John Blacking: reminiscences, Popular Music:Cambridge University Press, 10(2), 221-228.

Moe Dodson (1991) Review of 'Dancing', a series of 6 television programmes written and presented by John Blacking, ICTM Yearbook, 170-171.

(1991) The origins of dance, IMPS, Club Magazine, London: The Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing., 5, 4-5.

(1990) A tribute to John Blacking, The Choreologist , 40 (summer), 2-5.

(1990) Dance as a primary modelling system: a Tiwi example, Centre for Ethnomusicology, London University Goldsmith's College.

(1990) Gender interchangeability in Tiwi music and dance, Centre for Music Studies, London University School of Oriental and African Studies.

(1990) Interculturalisme dans les arts du spectacle , in Jean-Yves Pidoux ed. La danse, art du XXe siècle? Lausanne: Payot , 343-55.

(1990) Some problems in the analysis of dance style with special reference to the Venda of South Africa, The Choreologist, 40 (Summer), 5-13.

(1990) The use of film and video in dance research, Royal Anthropological Institute's International festival Ethnographic Films, Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, Manchester University.

(1989) Dance scholarship in Southern Africa , Beyond Performance: Dance Scholarship today Susan Au and Frank-Manuel Peter eds. Berlin: International Theatre Institute.

(1989) Creativity among the Tiwi, Fourth Hong kong International Dance Conference.

(1989) Intercultural Performance, Association of Arts Historians, Institute of Education, London.

(1989) Report on Cambridge Anglo-Swedish conference in ethnomusicology and the fourth Hong Kong International Dance Conference, Dance Research Journal , 21 (2), 52-3.

(1989) The Intercultural Performing Arts Research Project, Anglo-Swedish conference in ethnomusicology, Cambridge University, UK.

John Blacking, Peter Cresswelland John Martin (1989) The InterCultural Performing Arts Research Project: a report for the Leverhulme Fundation, London: University of London Goldsmith's College.

(1988) Danse et liens de parenté chez les Tiwi de l'Australie du nord, troisième Congrès International de la Receherche en Danse, Université de Paris-Sorbonne.

(1987) Review of Betty True Jones ed 'Dance as a cultural heritage' , Dance Research , 5(1), 71.

(1987) Review of Paul Spencer ed 'Society and the dance', Dance Research , 5(1) , 70-71.

(1987) Tiwi creativity, British Association for the Advancement of Science, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

(1986) Ethnochoréologie en Grande Bretagne, Deuxième Congrès International de la recherche en Danse, Sorbonne University, Paris.

(1985) Benesh Movement Notation and the Anthropology of Dance, The Choreologist , 30 (summer), 14-18.

(1985) Review of Anya Peterson Royce's 'Movement and Meaning: Creativity and Interpretation in Ballet and Mime', MAN, The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 21 (1), 167.

(1985) Review of Judith Lynne Hanna's 'The performer-audience connection: emotion to metaphor in dance and society, MAN, The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute , 20 (2) , 377-8.

Andrea Borsay (1983) Dance Anthropology, Dance Australia , August 12, 33-34 .

(1983) Sing a dance - Dance a song: the relationship between two types of formalise movements and music among the Tiwi of Melville and Bathurst Islands, North Australia , Dance Research , 1(2), 32-44.

(1982) An anthropological approach to tiwi dance, Anthropology department, University of Western Australia.

(1981) Dance and Kinship among the Tiwi, Australian Anthropological Association, University of new South Wales, Sydney .

(1981) Dance anthropology, Australian Anthropological Association, University of New South Wales.

(1981) The dance of the Tiwi, Australian Insttute of Aboriginal Studies, Canberra.

(1978) The use of Benesh Movement Notation in studying Venda dances, Marie Slocombe ed IFMC United Kingdom National Committee Newsletter, 16 (October), 12-16.

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Research Projects Undertaken

2002-2007 AHRB (Arts and Humanities Research Board) for Centre for Cross-Cultural Music and Dance Performance in collaboration with London University School of Oriental and African Studies, and University of Surrey
1998-2001 Leverhulme Trust research on South Asian Dance in Britain
1998 Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Islander Studies (AIATSIS) Research among the Tiwi
1986-89 Leverhulme Trust Inter-Cultural Performing Arts Research Project
1983-1984 Sydney University and Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies (AIAS) research on Djambidj, a song series from Arnhem Land
1980-1983 AIAS research on Tiwi dance
1977 Wenner Grenn research in Venda South Africa

Membership of professional bodies

Member of the:

Association of Social Anthropologists of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth
Royal Anthropological Institute
European Association of Social Anthropologists
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Islanders Studies
ICTM Ethnochoreology Study Group
Society for Ethnomusicology
Benesh Institute of Choreology
Royal Academy of Dance
Editorial Board British Ethnomusicology Forum

Qualification Details

A.I. Chor. (Associate of the Institute of Choreology) (1976)
F.I. Chor. (Fellow of the Institute of Choreology) (1979)
MA (Ethnomusicology / Ethnochoreology) (1979)
PhD Social-Anthropology (1983)

Research Expertise

The anthropology of dance, the anthropology of the body, Australian Aboriginal (Tiwi) dance, South Asian dance in Britain, identity and dance, dance in transnational and postcolonial world, dance and gender

Consultancies Undertaken

Referee for publishers: Ashgate, Dance Books, Sage, Routledge; Referee for journals British Journal of Ethnomusicology, Dance Research Journal;
Member of AHRC Peer Review College
Referee for Australian Research Council, Arts.
Interviewed for Radio 4 Questions Questions on the evolutionary significance of dance (October 2005)
Interviewed for radio 4 Women's Hour on why men don't dance (December 2004)
Adviser, Reputations: Mata Hari: unveiling the myth, BBC2 (2000)
Writer and presenter of programme on Venda music for 'Radio Television Suisse Romande', Geneva, January 1990
Adviser BBC Television and Iambic Productions, 1990
Member of validation panel, 'Benesh Movement Notation course for clinicians', Coventry University, 1989
Adviser, 'Dancing' Television series produced by Bruce Milliard for Ulster Television, 1988
Writer and presenter 'Songs of the Tiwi and other Aboriginal Peoples' for BBC Radio 3 'A celebration of Australia', May 1988
Adviser, 'The Dance Project', directed by Rhoda Grauer for WNET New York Television, 1988
Adviser, 'Naturally Creative', a Dibb Directions Production for Channel Four Television, 1987