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2018
Nominated and shortlisted in Dance One UK annual awards

Dance Research Impact Prize

2017
International Women’s Day, Coventry University

Awarded Roll of Honour

2017
(InVisible Difference) – Coventry University

Research team of the Year

Advisory Board member for Delia Ferri’s (Maynooth University Department of Law) ERC Consolidator project ‘Dancing’

Advisory Board – Digital Theatre

Advisory Board member - Dance Research

Governor – London Studio Centre

External Advisor to the Trinity Laban Course Board for Research Degrees

Enhancing creativity by training metacognitive skills in mental imagery

Kaleidoscope: Feedback Collection, Impact and Future Exploitation: EU Project Report

Exchanging, Moving, Translating: thoughts on dance and disability

A Report on the Screendance Symposium

Virtual Reality and Choreographic Practice: The Potential for New Creative Methods

Professor Sarah Whatley is Professor of Dance and Director of the Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE) at Coventry University. She has expertise across a wide range of contemporary dance theory and practice, much of it in partnership with artists, dance companies and cultural organisations.  Her research  focuses on issues such as how the movement of the body can communicate and transmit emotions and intelligence, as well as understanding dance in different cultures. She is also interested in dance and technology - for example, exploring the connections between dance, disability, prosthetics and 3D design.

Her projects and publications employ a wide range of methodologies, including practice research, and focus on creative reuse of digital cultural content, reimagining dance archives and dance documentation, intangible cultural heritage, somatic dance practice and pedagogy, and inclusive dance practice concerned particularly with disability in performance. She has eight edited books on these themes, is founding Editor of the Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices and sits on the Editorial Boards of several other Journals.  She is also an advisor for several groups, including Dance Research, Digital Theatre and Practice Research Advisory Group (PRAG). Sarah’s early career was as a classically-trained dancer, choreographer and, dance teacher.

Digital Dance

Performing Arts

Dance

Dance and Cultural Heritage

Dance and Disability

Dance pioneer and associate professor at Coventry University becomes a Dame

New diploma for learning disabled actors has the power to change theatre

Engaging with the Fifties in Europe: Kaleidoscope a Retrospective (2020)

The Clay Connection (2020)

The Seemingly Impossible Professor status (2019)

The First ten years of the Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices (2019)

Beyond the Text: Chorus in the Twenty-First Century (2019)

Professor of Dance and Director of the Centre for Dance Research

Sarah Whatley (Coventry University) short interview about Wholodance

Siobhan Davies Replay - Sarah Whatley

Dance Studies Colloquium - Sarah Whatley (Coventry University)

Spotlight On... Professor Sarah Whatley

Professor Sarah Whatley, Professor of Dance, Coventry University talks about the challenges and opportunities involved in creating a digital archive based on experiences with Siobhan Davies Replay.

For more information visit http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/digitalcapacity

Siobhan Davies RePlay and digital dance archives - Prof Sarah Whatley

Sarah is the author of Dance, Disability and Law and editor of Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices

In Conversation with Prof Sarah Whatley

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