The Moving Group is an informal space for exchanging notes, work in progress, and music and dance experiences, including reflections on our dual roles as researchers and aficionados of the groove.
The Moving Group focuses on Afro-diasporic rhythm cultures. It also fosters dialogue between work on/ practice of African-heritage music, dance and percussion, and work/ practice relating to other music and dance forms.
We bring together academics and graduate students across KCL and London, and use King’s premises and facilities to kick-start activities that then usually branch out to dinner and movement somewhere in the vicinity!
The Moving Group meets on an average of once a semester. It typically takes advantage of visiting academics and dance/ music practitioners and so has somewhat of an ad hoc air about it. We like to think this adds to its charm and spontaneous energies…
If you want to take part in our Moving Group events, then please let us know via our ‘contact us’ form on the website.
Our fifth Moving Group was dedicated to an exploration of tango music and dance, and it involved a double bill. First, we heard Dr Kendra Stepputat, ethnomusicologist from the University…
Moving Group #4: Stepping Dance Lecture Demonstration with Jakari Sherman and Briana Stuart By Madison Moore with inputs from Elina Djebbari and Ananya Kabir When Modern Moves postdoctoral researcher Elina…
Our third Moving Group event: on the politics, pleasures and identity formations around the Angolan social dance form, Kizomba.
Our second Moving Group brought together our regulars and some welcome additions for a very special event: a kaizen workshop led by Advisory Board member Kwenda Lima. Kwenda, born in…
For our first meeting, we were delighted to host our Associated Researcher Stefanie Alisch, musicologist and DJ from Berlin speaking on ‘epistemologies of dance research: investigating kuduro in Luanda’. Stefanie’s…
Friday 4th May 2018 Anatomy Lecture Theatre (day) and Great Hall (evening) King’s College London, Strand Campus, WC2R 2LS Five years of Modern Moves draw to a close. Celebrate with…
Our fifth Moving Group was dedicated to an exploration of tango music and dance, and it involved a double bill. First, we heard Dr Kendra Stepputat, ethnomusicologist from the University…