Intro

Welcome to the AHRC Research Centre for Cross-Cultural Music and Dance Performance, inaugurated on 1 September 2002, a collaboration between three pioneering and established departments that lead their respective academic fields in Britain: the Department of Music at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), the Department of Dance Studies, part of the School of Performing Arts at the University of Surrey (UniS), and the School of Arts at University of Surrey Roehampton (USR).

In its research, the Centre addresses questions raised by the performance of sound and movement, particularly within Asian and African artistic practice, seeking a symbiosis between the performance concerns of ethnomusicology and musicology, and exploring analysis methodologies utilised in theatre and dance research. The Centre will invite Asian and African experts to work with its researchers so that different forms of knowledge can be brought together.