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Research Interests
Dance analysis; Dance and disability; Dance and digital technologies, Intangible Cultural Heritage, Dance and somatic practices
Biography
Sarah Whatley is Director, Centre for Dance Research. Her research focuses on the interface between dance and new technologies, dance analysis, somatic dance practice and pedagogy, and inclusive dance. The AHRC, the Leverhulme Trust, Wellcome Trust and the European Union fund her current research, which is broadly focused on the impact of digital technologies on tangible and intangible cultural heritage. She led the AHRC-funded Siobhan Davies digital archive project, RePlay, and has worked with Davies on other artist-led research projects. She is founding Editor of the Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices and sits on the Editorial Boards of several other Journals.
Sarah supported the development of the Routledge Performance Archive in her role as Academic Consultant: Digital Environment. She was an assessor for the 2014 REF exercise (Panel D35) and is a Strategic Reviewer and member of the AHRC Peer Review College. She is also an Evaluator for the European Commission.
Vision Statement
My research is inspired by my deep interest in how dance artists document and publish their choreographic thinking in different modes, and how audiences become co-creators in art making practices. The collaborations that I have with researchers and artists, arts companies and organisations, both in the UK and overseas, are very important to me because it stimulates productive dialogues and leads to new insights about dance as a creative cultural practice.
Research Interests
Research Projects and Grants awarded
2017 Social Choreography – AHRC Network project (Co-I)
2016 Resilience and Inclusion: Dancers as Agents of Change- AHRC (PI)
2016 Identity and Governance of Bodily Extensions: The Case of Prosthetics and Avatars – Wellcome Seed Award in Humanities and Social Science (partner)
2016 People Dancing: changing perceptions through inclusion and interventions – AHRC CDA (PI)
2015 Error Network: AHRC (Co-I)
2015 Whole-Body Interaction Learning for Dance Education (WhoLoDance); EU (partner)
2014 In the Dancer’s Mind; Creativity, Novelty and the Imagination; Leverhulme (Co-I)
2014 Civic Epistemologies – Development of a Roadmap for Citizen Researchers in the age of Digital Culture; FP7 Capacities Programme (partner)
2013 EuropeanaSpace; FP7 CIP-ICT-PSP-2013-7 (project lead)
2013 Renewal, Innovation and Change: Heritage and European Society (RICHES) FP7 Cooperation Theme 8 Socio-Economic Sciences & Humanities SSH.2013.5.2-2 Transmitting and benefiting from cultural heritage in Europe (STREP) – (Researcher – Coventry leading).
2012 Enhancing Choreographic Objects (EChO); AHRC (Researcher)
2012 Labo21; European Commission – Culture Europe (partner)
2012 In-visible Difference: Dance, disability and law, AHRC (PI)
2011 The Library of Processes; Collaborative doctoral award, AHRC
2010 D-TRACES (Dance Teaching Resources and Collaborative Engagement Spaces): JISC (PI)
2010 Capturing Stillness; visualization techniques and motion capture: AHRC Creative Fellowship – Ruth Gibson
2010 Digital Dance Archives: AHRC DEDEFI scheme (Co-I)
2009 Screen Dance Network; AHRC (Co-I)
2009 Transformations; Cultural Olympiad; People Dancing (lead researcher)
2008 Choreographic Objects; traces and artefacts of physical intelligence; AHRC – Beyond Text (Co-I)
2007 Moving Matters; HEA PALATINE Development Award
2007 Establishing movement standards and injury reduction for dancers; Leverhulme (Co-I)
2006 CURVE- learning objects for dance; JISC (Work Package leader)
2006 Siobhan Davies Dance Online; AHRC (PI)
2005 Fracture; Dance and the Moving Image; Arts Council England (project lead)
2004 Body Realities: strategies for inclusion in dance in HE; Coventry University research fund (PI)
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Projects
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Re-designing access to CH for a wider participation in preservation, (re)use and management of European culture
Forbes, N. & Whatley, S.
1/11/17 → 31/10/20
Project: Research
Research output
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Dance Fields: Staking a Claim for Dance Studies in the 21st Century
Whatley, S. (ed.), Huxley, M. (ed.) & David, A. (ed.), 28 May 2020, 1 ed. Dance Books.Research output: Book/Report › Anthology or Edited Book › peer-review
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Enhancing creativity by training metacognitive skills in mental imagery
May, J., Redding, E., Whatley, S., Lucznik, K., Clements, L., Weber, B., Sikorski, J. & Reed, S. B., Dec 2020, In: Thinking Skills and Creativity. 38, 100739.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
1 Citation (Scopus) -
Error, Ambiguity and Creativity: A Multidisciplinary Reader
Popat, S. (ed.) & Whatley, S. (ed.), 31 Jul 2020, 1 ed. Palgrave Macmillan. 240 p.Research output: Book/Report › Anthology or Edited Book › peer-review
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Kaleidoscope: Feedback Collection, Impact and Future Exploitation: EU Project Report
O'Sullivan, E., Forbes, N. & Whatley, S., 28 Feb 2020, Online : Photoconsortium. 22 p.Research output: Book/Report › Other report
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Towards hybridity: dance, tourism and cultural heritage
Crawley, M-L., Whatley, S. & Cisneros, R. K., 15 Dec 2020, In: Performance Research. 25, 4, p. 125-132 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Activities
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Dance Research (Journal)
Sarah Whatley (Guest Editor)
11 Oct 2020Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial activity
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Normal Now! Art and Disability in a Digital World
Sarah Whatley (Speaker)
29 Oct 2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Dance Research (Journal)
Sarah Whatley (Guest Editor)
11 Nov 2020Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial activity
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Engaging with the Fifties in Europe: Kaleidoscope a Retrospective
Elaine O'Sullivan (Speaker), Sarah Whatley (Speaker) & Neil Forbes (Speaker)
21 Feb 2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
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Urban Identities Past and Present
Marie-Louise Crawley (Speaker), Sarah Whatley (Speaker) & Rosamaria Kostic Cisneros (Speaker)
27 Jun 2019Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference
Prizes
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Body Realities: strategies for inclusion in dance in HE
Whatley, Sarah (Recipient), 2004
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Capturing stillness: visualisations of dance through motion capture technologies
Gibson, Ruth (Recipient) & Whatley, Sarah (Recipient), 18 May 2010
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Choreographic Objects; traces and artefacts of physical intelligence
Whatley, Sarah (Recipient), James Leach (Recipient) & Delahunta, Scott (Recipient), 2008
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Civic Epistemologies – Development of a Roadmap for Citizen Researchers in the age of Digital Culture
Whatley, Sarah (Recipient), Neil Forbes (Recipient) & Cisneros, Rosamaria Kostic (Recipient), 2014
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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CREATE
Whatley, Sarah (Recipient), Delahunta, Scott (Recipient) & Daniel Bisig (Recipient), 2019
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)