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Professor Helen Bailey

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Professor Helen Bailey, Professor of Dance, Head of Division of Performing Arts and English, Head of CARD Centre for Applied Research in Dance

Professor Helen Bailey

Helen Bailey is a Dance Artist and Academic. She trained at the Laban Centre London, UK. She initially worked as a freelance dance artist and choreographer. In 1993 she took up a full-time Senior Lectureship in Dance at De Montfort University, UK. Since 2007 she has been Head of Performing Arts & English within the Faculty of Creative Arts, Technology & Sciences at the University of Bedfordshire, in the United Kingdom. Her research interests focus on the interrelationship between dance, new media, visual technologies and e-Science. She is Head of CARD (Centre for Applied Research in Dance) which focuses on practice-led research in dance with an emphasis on interdisciplinary collaboration. She has established a world-leading reputation for collaborative interdisciplinary practice-led arts/science research and has collaborated with academics from a range of institutions in the UK, Europe, Japan and the United States. Her research activities have attracted significant levels of support from the UK Research Councils - Arts & Humanities Research Council, Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council and the Joint Information Systems Council as well as professional bodies such as the Arts Council England, British Council and the National Lottery. She is currently Vice-Chair of the UK HE subject association SCODHE (Standing Conference on Dance in Higher Education).

Research interests

Choreographic practice, dance and technology, interdisciplinary arts/science collaborative research, practice-led research methodologies, dance and e-research.

Recent funding

  • 2010-2011 £500,000 AHRC Large Research Grant. 17-month project Movement in Place Platform University of Bedfordshire (Co-Investigator)
  • 2009-2010 £15,500 Arts Council England Grants for the Arts Award. 9-month project Composite Bodies: Networked Choreography Ersatz Dance. (Principal Investigator)
  • 2007-2010 £400,000 AHRC-EPSRC-JISC e-Science Scheme Award Large Research Grant. Three-year project. The e-Dance Project - Relocating Choreographic Process: the Impact of Collaborative Memory and Grid Technologies on Practice-led Research in Dance, University of Bedfordshire (Principal Investigator).

Recent research outputs

Publications
  • Bailey, H. (2009) “e-Dance: using digital cartography to map the choreographic process” in the proceedings of Topographies: Sites, Bodies, Technologies, Society of Dance History Scholars 32nd Annual International Conference proceedings Stanford University, USA
  • Bailey, H., Buckingham-Shum, S., Popat, S., Turner, M., (2009) “e-Dance: digital topographies and knowledge cartography in networked performance” in the proceedings in ISEA 2009 15th International Conference Proceedings ISBN 978-1-905902-05-7.
  • Bailey, H., Buckingham-Shum, Le Blanc, A, S., Popat, S., Turner, M., Rowley, A. (2009) “Dancing on the Grid: Using e-Science tools to extend choreographic research” in Philosophical Transactions A, The Royal Society ISBN 978-0-85403-757-5
  • Bailey, H., Buckingham-Shum, S., Popat, S., Turner, M. (2008) “e-Dance: Relocating choreographic practice as a new modality for performance and documentation” in ISEA2008 International Conference Proceedings ISBN 978-981-08-0768-9.

Recent invited presentations

  • 2010 Invited presentation “The use and delivery of e-research and e-infrastructure, support services, tools and methods for the arts and humanities” as part of the research workshop for JISC funded Enabling Uptake of e-Infrastructure Services project, DRHA Annual International Conference, University of Brunel, UK.
  • 2010 Invited paper “Choreographic Morphologies: using motion capture and tracking technologies to document choreographic practice” at JISC Motion Capture Methodologies International Workshop, University of Sussex, UK.
  • 2010 Invited keynote paper “e-Dancing: Extending the boundaries of dance practice” at Baltic Movement International Conference, Gdansk, Poland
  • 2009 Invited opening keynote paper “Assessing the impact of e-Science on practice-led research through the e-Dance Project”at AHM2009 UK e- Science All-Hands Meeting Annual International Conference, University of Oxford, UK
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