Name: Dancing Across Disciplines
Start: 2026-04-28T10:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-04-28T16:00:00+01:00
Location: Tom Percival Annexe

Gabriela Minden, Durham University

Eliot Smith, Eliot Smith Dance

Megan Girdwood, University of Edinburgh

Daniel P. Jones, Durham University

Ellen Jeffery, Dance City

Sofie Narbed, Royal Holloway, University of London

Lewis Hou, Science Ceilidh

Emily Davis, Durham University

Matthew Reason, York St John University

Dancing Across Disciplines

Based at Durham University, we are the UK's first Institute for Medical Humanities. Our research explores human experiences of health and ill-health using an interdisciplinary arts and humanities approach.

Institute for Medical Humanities

Keen to move and be moved? Join us for a dynamic 1-day event exploring dancing across different disciplines, forms, spaces, and communities.

Tom Percival Annexe

Dance is a growing subject of academy inquiry, attracting attention from historians, literary scholars, cultural theorists, social scientists, and more. While scholarship on dance spans multiple disciplines, these perspectives do not always intersect. What new insights might emerge by bringing them more fully into dialogue?This one-day, in-person event will bring together various researchers and practitioners working with dance from different disciplinary backgrounds, showcasing interdisciplinary work across a range of topics, methodologies, and experiences.Through a series of talks, we’ll explore historical connections across dance and literature, geographies of dance across different spaces and places, and real-world dance collaborations across communities. Alongside these talks, the day will include showings of dance practice and opportunities for creative and critical reflection and discussion.Please see the full list of speakers and talk titles below.This event is free to attend in person – and no dance experience is required! Lunch will be provided.This event is hosted by Durham University’s <a href="https://www.durham.ac.uk/research/institutes-and-centres/medical-humanities/" title="https://www.durham.ac.uk/research/institutes-and-centres/medical-humanities/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Institute for Medical Humanities </a>and the <a href="https://medhumsplatform.org/labs/moving-bodies/" title="https://medhumsplatform.org/labs/moving-bodies/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Moving Bodies Lab</a> of the Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities.

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