Dance dissertations

Alexander, Gilley. 2024. Electronic dance music (EDM) and contemporary dance performance: a somaesthetic investigation of choreomusical aesthetics and audience felt experience, MA, University of NSW

Asker, Don, 2001. Personal meanings and artistic processes: a study of multi-modal improvisation, PhD, University of Melbourne

Belling, Gareth, 2024. Policy as choreographic act: how the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust shaped a national dance identity, PhD University of Queensland

Brannigan, Erin. 2004. A cinema of movement : dance and the moving image, PhD, University of NSW

Brickhill, Eleanor. 2016. Trouble with Tango: conversations across boundaries Argentine Tango and contact improvisation, MA, University of Wollongong

Bollen, Jonathan. 1999.Queer kinaesthesia : on the dance floor at gay and lesbian dance parties Sydney, 1994-1998, PhD, University of Westtern Sydney

Brown, Amie. 2024. Movement to Music: Notating Baroque Dance for Musicians, MA, University of Sydney

Card, Amanda. 1999. History in motion : dance and Australian culture, 1920 to 1970, PhD, University of Sydney

Carroll, Jacqui. 1998. Changing Lanes: An Exploration of the Journey from Dance through Choreography to Directing and the Spoken Word, MA, Queensland University of Technology

Coleman, Judith. 2017. Sites of justice: Face-to-face encounters through dance-making in Meeting Places, PhD, Edith Cowan University

Crisp, Rosalind. 1998. Solo work, MA, University of Western Sydney University

Crivellenti, Tania. 2025. Dancing with Diversity: Mapping the Evolution and Impact of Latin Dance in Australia (1989-2024), MA, Macquarie University

Devi, Rakini. 2018. Urban Kali: From Sacred Dance to Secular Performance. DCA, University of Wollongong

Dempster, Elizabeth. 2002. An embodied politics : radical pedagogies of contemporary, PhD, Monash University

East, Yvonne. 2016. Twisted floating bodies: Choreographing the nude, MA, University of NSW

Forbes, Luke Aaron. 2021. Corpus Australis and Settler Colonialism: Land and Body Politics in Australian Settler Colonists’ Dances and Other Performances of the Postcolonial, PhD, Monash University

Gard, Michael. 2001. Aesthetics, athletics and art: a study of men who dance, PhD, University of Wollongong

Gardiner, Sally. 2024. Dancing together : the choreographer and the dancer in modern dance, PhD, Monash University

Garlick, Fiona. 1992. The measure of decorum : social order and the dance suite in the reign of Louis XIV, PhD, University of NSW

Godfrey, Nerida. 2019. Becoming-with movement : life course mobilities and alternative cartographies of Independent Contemporary Dancers, PhD, University of NSW

Griffiths, Carolyn Margaret. 2000. Tracing image and bodily displacement in modern and postmodern dance, MA, Edith Cowan University

Heywood, Nicola. 2016. Undoing Discomfort: being real/becoming other in an embodied performance practice, DCA, University of Wollongong

Hocking, Rachel. 2006. Crafting connections: original music for the dance in Australia, 1960-2000, PhD, University of NSW

Keft-Kennedy, Virginia. 2005. Representing the belly-dancing body: feminism, orientalism, and the grotesque, PhD,

Lester, Garry. 2000. Kai Tai Chan : a different path, PhD, Deakin University

Long, Julie-Anne, 2010. Walking in Sydney looking for dancing: an auto-ethnographic mapping of the place of independent dance, PhD, University of NSW

Lyons, Camie-Jane. 2005. Heavy metal ballet, capturing movement and casting into space, MA, University of NSW

Marchant, Jason. 2018. Existence of dancing, PhD, University of Sydney

McNeilly, Jodie. 2012. Poetics of Reception: a phenomenological aesthetics of bodies and technology in performance, PhD, University of Sydney

Millard, Olivia. 2013. From score to work? Making a group, improvising a dance, PhD, Deakin University

Nevile, Jennifer. 1992. The courtly dance manuscripts from fifteenth-century Italy, PhD, University of NSW

Newton, Rhiannon. 2022. Embodying an Ecological Condition: Dance Practices and the Development of Embodied Ecological Awareness, MPhil, University of NSW

Ng, Jason Andrew. 2019. Connecting Asia-Pacific Hip-hop—The Role of the Cross-Cultural Intermediary, PhD, Monash University

Panetta, Alexndria. 2022. Enacting (Re)Actions: Affect Theory and Embodied Resonance in Improvisational Contemporary Dance and Compositional Pedagogy, MA, University of NSW

Parker, Sandra. 2010. Locating the trace: an exploration of tracing and the choreographic process, PhD, Melbourne University

Peacock, Sue. 2014 Technique reframed body reimagined, PhD, Edith Cowan University

Pollitt, Joanna, 2001. Accumulated response in live improvised dance performance, MA, Edith Cowan University

Port, Rheannan. 2020. Aboriginal contemporary dance practice: embodying our ways of being, knowing and doing through dance storying, MFA, Melbourne University

Robinson, Jasmine. 2019. Drawing us in: The Australian Experience of Butoh and Body Weather, MA, University of Sydney

Schacher, Alan. 2000. Done by gravity feed : relationships between body and site in the performance and installation works, MA, University of NSW

Shaddick, Lillian 2019. Samba Showgirls: Cross-cultural practice in Australian popular dance entertainment, MA, University of Sydney

Shaddick, Lillian, 2024.Leisurely Seeking Duende: Meaning making through the embodied experience of flamenco dance, PhD, Univerisytty of Sydney

Shih Pearson, Justine. 2012. In the In-between: Embodying the Intercultural in Performance, PhD, University of Sydney

Smith, Helen Suzanne. 2016. Being moved: the transformative power of butoh: towards an articulation of an aesthetics of butoh, MA, Monash University

Stamp, Brook. 2018. Pulling down from the ephemeral, MA, University of NSW

Stamp, Brook. 2024. For the Record: Perspectives on Dance Agency in the Visual Arts, PhD, Melbourne University

Stewart, Garry. 2020. The Corporeality of Emotions and the Choreographic in Video Installation, MA, University of NSW

Synnott, Lisa. 2025. “Is this work yours or mine?” Uncovering twenty-first-century dancer authorship, PhD, University of NSW

Thomson, Elizabeth. 2015. Body as archive: the presence of history in dance, MRes, Macquarie University

Vengurlekar, Nitin, 2018. The choreography of the gaze: looking back at spectators in works by Pina Bausch and Jacques Tati, PhD, University of NSW

Wait, Nalina. 2019. Western Improvised Dance: Practices, Pedagogies, and Language, PhD, University of NSW

Wood, Patricia 2016. Dancing the archive: a study in remembering, re-embodiment and re-enactment, MRes., Macquarie University

Yap, Ding Chai. 2021. Trance-Forming Dance: the practice of trance from traditional communities to contemporary dance, PhD, Melbourne University