舞蹈研究

舞蹈研究（英語：dance research）是对舞蹈的研究，包括舞蹈史、民族舞蹈学、舞蹈理论、舞蹈人类学和舞蹈科学。

舞蹈研究学科的诞生并不久远。 1967年，《CORD舞蹈研究年刊》第一卷写道：“…舞蹈研究中最严重的问题之一是研究该领域的文人还不是大学生”。^[1]

舞蹈科学是对舞蹈和舞者的科学研究，致力于科学原理在舞蹈中的实际应用，类似于体育科学。其目标是提高表现、减少伤害以及改善福祉和健康。

组织

• 舞蹈研究大会（原舞蹈研究委员会，成立于1965年）
• 民族音乐学会
• 舞蹈史学者协会
• 跨文化舞蹈资源

参考资料

1. CORD dance research annual. Committee on Research in Dance. 1967 [2010-06-27]. 

延伸阅读

• Braun, Lesley Nicole. 2014. “Trading Virtue for Virtuosity: The Artistry of Kinshasa's Concert Danseuses.” African Arts 47(4): 48-57.Castaldi, Francesca. 2006. Choreographies of African Identities: Negritude, Dance, and the National Ballet of Senegal. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press.
• Cohen, Adrienne. 2016. “Inalienable Performances, Mutable Heirlooms: Dance, Cultural Inheritance, and Political Transformation in the Republic of Guinea.” American Ethnologist 43(4): 650-662.
• Daniel, Yvonne. 1995. Rumba: Dance and Social Change in Contemporary Cuba. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.Foster, Susan Leigh. 1996. Corporealities: Dancing Knowledge Culture and Power. Edited by Susan Leigh Foster. London: Routledge.
• Dunham, Katherine. 1969. Island possessed. University of Chicago Press.
• Franko, Mark. "Dance and the political: States of exception." Dance Research Journal (2006): 3-18.
• Ross, Janice. 2015. Like a Bomb Going Off: Leonid Yakobson and Ballet as Resistance in Soviet Russia. Yale University Press.
• Schauert, Paul. 2015. Staging Ghana: Artistry and Nationalism in State Dance Ensembles. Indiana University Press.
• Wilcox, Emily. 2018. Revolutionary Bodies: Chinese Dance and the Socialist Legacy. University of California Press.