Professor Ramsay Burt

Dance, Drama and Performance Studies Research Institute

Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Dance (CIRID) 

View a full listing of Ramsay Burt's publications and outputs.

2019 Dance, Modernism and Modernity. with Michael Huxley, London and New York: Routledge.

2016 Ungoverning Dance. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.

2016  British Dance, Black Routes. editedwith Christy Adair London and New York: Routledge.

2007 The Male Dancer: Bodies, Spectacle and Sexualities London: Routledge [Expanded and Revised 2nd edition].

2006 Judson Dance Theater: Performative Traces London: Routledge.

1913

Dance, gender, and sexuality

Dance, philosophy, and politics

Judson Dance Theatre

Contemporary European Dance

Dance of the African Diaspora

Twentieth and Twenty-first century dance

Undergraduate, Masters, and PhD supervision 

1972 – 1976 Leeds University:  BA Fine Art.

1994 PhD CNAA/University of Southampton.  Title "Representations of masculinity in theatre dance with special reference to British new dance"

undergraduate:
DANS2524 Dance Contexts
DANS3500 Dance Research Project

postgraduate:

PERF5002 Perspectives

also supervises MA by Research and at PhD level.

ADAD North Steering Group 2012-2016

Re:Generations Conference steering group 2014-2016

British Dance and the African Diaspora: this was a two year research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Board, 2012-14.  For further information see this project's website (details below).

Matthias Sperling, PhD in Choreography (awarded AHRC-funded Midlands3Cities Doctoral Training Partnership), No-How Generator. 1^st Supervisor. 

Iyobosa Olaye, PhD in Drama, Thematic Concerns of Post-Colonial Playwrights in Nigeria: A Study of the Last Two Decades in Nigerian Drama (1995-2015), 1^st Supervisor.

Tia-Monique Uzor, PhD in Dance Studies (awarded AHRC-funded Midlands3Cities Doctoral Training Partnership), Roots: Establishing British Caribbean Diasporic Identity Through Dance, 1^st Supervisor.

Angharad Harrop, PhD in Dance, Embodiment and Performance: The use of folk and cultural dance in choreographic practice and performance. 2^nd Supervisor. 

Elizabeth Short, PhD in Performance Art Practice, The Big Reckoning: Performing against sexual violence within the Western 21st Century Arts Industry. 2^nd Supervisor.

Sophie Swoffer, PhD in Performance Art and Film (awarded AHRC-funded Midlands3Cities Doctoral Training Partnership). In Her Prime, or Past It?: Reconsidering the Gaze and Feminine Monstrosity in Feminist Performance Art and Film Studies. 2^nd Supervisor.

British Dance and the African Diaspora, AHRC, two year research project with Professor Christy Adair, York St John University, start date 14 February 2012.

Remembering British New dance, RIT funded project, series of events at Siobhan Davies Studios, Sadlers Wells Theatre, and Chisenhale Dance Space in London, June 2012, in collaboration with Jonathan Burrows. Podcasts from these talks can be found on the Siobhan Davies Studios website.

Founder Editor (with Professor Susan Foster) Discourses in Dance

International Advisory Board of Research Center S:PAM (Studies in Performing Arts and Media). University of Ghent.

Editorial boards of Choros, Amfitheater, South African Dance Journal.

Ramsay Burt wordpress blog

British Dance and the African Diaspora wordpress blog