Tapping Away

Two-step, nerve-tap, tanglefoot

05 November 2012

On 6 November Professor Steven Connor will give a talk at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities on the affinity between tap dance and sound cinema, interspersing his discussion with clips from Hollywood musicals. It’s all to do with sound, movement and counting.

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Mbulelo Ndabeni and Julia Gillespie dance in Seven for a Secret (Rambert Dance Company)

Two for joy

21 November 2011

An innovative dance performance with creative input from Professor Nicky Clayton, a expert on bird cognition, goes on tour this week. The Rambert Dance Company's newest production - Seven for a Secret, Never to be Told - is an exploration of childhood inspired by the age-old nursery rhyme about magpies and informed by science.

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Cambridge Ideas - Bird Tango

11 November 2010

Professor Nicky Clayton researches the social behaviour, intelligence and dance credentials of birds!

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