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Published on: Wednesday July 17, 2024

Leicester’s De Montfort University (DMU) Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Dance (CIRID) and its industry partner, FABRIC, are pleased to announce a new collaboration creating a unique Research Centre for Dance in the Midlands.

Co-directed by Sally Doughty, Associate Professor Dance at De Montfort University and Paul Russ, Chief Executive and Artistic Director of FABRIC, this will be the first research centre for dance in the UK that is jointly led by an HEI and industry partner.

This new venture in dance is ambitious to grow a more visible, active and productive research centre for dance, and develop an environment that places research in a more collaborative space to enhance the national and global reach and impact of the centre’s activity.

Paul Russ says:

The time has come to move beyond holding separate environments for artistic research and scholarly research. In fact, we believe artists, researchers and the field of dance and choreography require this change, a more porous and collaborative space for research and knowledge exchange.

CIRID will now begin building its programme, including the commissioning of research projects, supporting a range of doctoral projects, and developing public facing programmes that platform practice research, lectures, discussions and more.

Sally Doughty says:

This new development marks the start of another exciting phase in our longstanding and productive relationship with Dance4 and now FABRIC. Activities and opportunities that have already emerged from DMU and FABRIC individually and collaboratively provide a solid foundation from which to grow our future potential. We are really excited to get that underway!

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