Dance Research Matters Festival: Celebrating and Futuring the Dance Research Ecosystem was hosted by Coventry University, July 2025.
“The Dance Research Matters Festival is the closing event of the AHRC-funded Dance Research Matters Networks Programme, which has been running since October 2023.
The five funded Networks encompass dance pedagogy (Critical Dance Pedagogy Network), digital Black dance (Digital Black Dance Ecologies), producing dance (Future Ecologies: Producing Dance Network), pluriversal approaches to dance practice (The Dancing Otherwise Network), and South Asian dance (South Asian Dance Equity: The Arts that British South Asian Dance Ignores). These networks tackle pressing issues like visibility, change-making, and cross-disciplinary collaboration. From health and wellbeing to inclusion and equity, community and place, art and pleasure, this festival is all about celebrating dance research in all the ways it is present in our lives and co-creating the future of the sector.”
Programme and presenter bios can be viewed here.
Youtube link to recorded sessions can be viewed here.