Head: Professor Helen Bailey view profile in Department

Dance at Bedford has an international reputation in research in the area of dance and technology. CARD supports and promotes excellence in research in e-dance and knowledge transfer between the academic and professional domains within the subject.

It enhances learning and teaching in dance through the development of advanced scholarship in the subject.

CARD hosts a AHRC project Relocating Choreographic Process. It is a collaborative project involving dance and e-science researchers from the University of Bedfordshire, University of Leeds, University of Manchester, and the Open University.

It focuses on the ways in which practice-led dance research might be informed and documented by e-Science technologies, and how choreographic knowledge and sensibility can help shape e-Science practice to make its applications more usable within the field of arts research and the broader arts and humanities context.

It draws on the fluidity of concepts across the disciplines, finding synergies between e-Science’s increasing commitment to ‘experience design’ and the visual representation of spatio-temporal events, and the modes of engagement in dance that are necessarily experimental, intuitive and embodied.

Research and practice in CARD focus on:

• Choreographic process and compositional method
• Dance improvisation and performance technologies
• Interdisciplinary Choreography
• Hybrid/mediatised dance making and performance
• Dance and e-Science
• Virtual research environments for dance
• Collaborative practices in dance
• Screen-based dance

CARD works with the Ersatz dance a professional group based at the Bedford campus which regularly gives performances and tours.