Dr. Andree Grau is the Professor of the Anthropology of Dance at Roehampton University, London.
Andrée Grau trained in dance in her native Switzerland and in London. She graduated from the Benesh Institute in 1976 and was awarded an MA in Social-Anthropology (Ethnomusicology/Ethnochoreology) and PhD in Social-Anthropology from The Queen's University of Belfast, respectively in 1979 and 1983. She has carried out fieldwork in Southern Africa, among the Venda; Aboriginal Australia, among the Tiwi of Melville and Bathurst Islands; India (Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka,Gujarat) and London, looking at performance from cross-cultural and interdisciplinary perspectives.
She has published - in English as well as French - in academic as well as professionalDr. Andree Grau is the Professor of the Anthropology of Dance at Roehampton University, London.
Andrée Grau trained in dance in her native Switzerland and in London. She graduated from the Benesh Institute in 1976 and was awarded an MA in Social-Anthropology (Ethnomusicology/Ethnochoreology) and PhD in Social-Anthropology from The Queen's University of Belfast, respectively in 1979 and 1983. She has carried out fieldwork in Southern Africa, among the Venda; Aboriginal Australia, among the Tiwi of Melville and Bathurst Islands; India (Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka,Gujarat) and London, looking at performance from cross-cultural and interdisciplinary perspectives.
She has published - in English as well as French - in academic as well as professional journals within the fields of dance, music, visual anthropology and social anthropology. She has contributed to a number of encyclopedias, writing entries for Australian Aboriginal dance and Eastern and Southern African dance.
She regularly presents her work at conferences in Europe, Asia, Australia and North America and acts as consultant for television, radio, and publishers in the UK and overseas.
She directed the Leverhulme project 'South Asian Dance in Britain: Negotiating cultural identity through dance' (1998-2001) and was assistant director of the AHRB (Arts and Humanities Research Board) Centre for Cross-Cultural Music and Dance Performance (2002-2007), a collaboration between SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies, London University), UniS (University of Surrey Guildford) and Roehampton. ...more