The Centre for Applied Research in Dance (CARD)

CARD was created by Professor Helen Bailey and hosted a series of large scale, practice-led, interdisciplinary, collaborative research projects, thanks also to vibrant collaborations with professional partners.

Professor Helen Bailey’s main research focus interrogates how digital technology can redefine choreographic practices.

Such question is of particular significance when considered in relation to:

• the impact of networked technologies that connect individuals virtually
• screen interfaces as mediated contexts for embodied communication
• the impact of technology in mediating experiences in motion.

Interest in these questions is manifest in both academic, practice-led research and professional arts contexts.

The research identifies how interdisciplinary, collaborative choreography and technology research projects undertaken within the CARD have focused on choreographic innovations in live, mediated networked environments and the development of software tools enabling new methods of choreography and documentation.

These themes were at the core of both the 2007/2010 e-Dance project, which received £400,000 joint research council AHRC-ESPRC-JISC funding, and the 2010/2011 MIPP: Movement in Place Platform project which received a £500,000 AHRC funding.