Through a range of scholarly and practice-based or practice-led research perspectives and approaches, the Institute of Drama, Dance and Performance Studies embraces diversity and connects academics from dance, drama, live art, adaptations, performance research, and creative technologies with the aim of producing world-class research.
Research produced by members investigates 20th and 21st century performance in the fields of contemporary dance and dance improvisation, live art, contemporary performance, intermedial theatre, applied theatre and performer training with focuses on emergent practices and issues around diversity and the performance of identities.