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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
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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?'
Dr Nicholas Rowe
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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'
Dr Carol Brown
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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






