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The Dance Studies Programme is New Zealand's leading centre for postgraduate research in dance, with a wealth of expertise in teaching and learning, choreographic practice and dance ethnography.

Associate Professor Ralph Buck

Research Areas

  • Dance education
  • Dance pedagogy
  • Community dance
  • Dance curriculum

Current and recent PhD supervision

  • Hiromi Sakamoto (2008-): 'Kapa Haka Teachers meanings of Kapa Haka'
  • Barbara Snook (2009-): 'How can primary school teachers be supported in their implementation of the dance curriculum?'
  • Michael Parmenter (2009-): 'Gestures of aliveness:  Encounters between dance and a phenomenology of life'
  • Dagmar Simon (2010-): 'How may dance shape Auckland’s multi-cultural identity?'

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Dr Nicholas Rowe

Research Areas

  • Dance ethnography
  • Dance histories
  • Dance education
  • Dance and creativity

Current and recent PhD supervision

  • Linda Ashley (2010): 'Teaching dance from contextual perspectives in the New Zealand curriculum: concerns, dilemmas and opportunities in theory and practice'
  • Rosemary Martin (2009-): 'Learning dance for performance: experiences of young women in the contemporary Eastern Mediterranean
  • David Zeitner-Smith (2010-): 'Conservatory theatre dance in the 21st century and the global labour market for dance graduates'

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Dr Carol Brown

Research Areas

  • Contemporary choreographic practices
  • Interdisciplinary performance
  • Dance and creative technologies
  • Dance and gender

Current and recent PhD supervision

  • Natalie Garrett (2007): 'Somatic Informed Choreographic Practice', Roehampton University UK
  • Jenny Roche (2009): 'Moving Identities: Multiplicity, Embodiment, and the Contemporary Dance', Roehampton University, UK
  • Efrosini Protopapa (2009): 'The Possibility of Dance:  Choreographic Practice and the Abstraction of the Real', Roehampton University UK
  • Mark Harvey (2007-): 'Performance: Test: Labour', AUT, NZ

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