The Research Department at London Contemporary Dance School is very pleased to congratulate on the award of their degrees in 2008:

Susan Botha MA by Research -  Best practice in dance teaching: Constructivist teaching methods

Rebecca Edmunds MA by Research - Documents and disappearance (Dance for the Screen)

Dr Nicholas Rowe – PhD – Post-Salvagism -Cultural interventions and cultural evolution in a traumatized community: Dance in the Central West Bank

Thomas Hecht – MPhil – Emotionally intelligent ballet training

These theses are available in the School Library.

Soon to be awarded:

Susanne Schneider – MA by Research –At the interface of aesthetic concepts and artistic acceptance of physically disabled dancers in Switzerland. Supervisor: Chris Thomson

Our current research students are engaged in a variety of studies and practices, as can be seen from the following list:

James Boylan  – MA by Research – Somatic practices and choreography. Supervisors: Sue MacLennan and Kirsty Alexander.

Vanessa Mildenberg – MPhil –Text in motion – Motion in text. Supervisors: Dr. Anne Hogan and Jane Boston.

Rosalind Newman* – PhD – Moving spaces. Supervisors: Dr. Henrietta Bannerman and Leslie Satin.

Alex Howard - MARes - investigating somatic practices and improvisation into choreography

* Roz has a long association with London Contemporary Dance School. In 1987 she created John Somebody for London Contemporary Dance Theatre and after a ten-year period teaching and choreographing in Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, where she had a company called Dance HK/NY. She is now a freelance teacher and choreographer in New York.