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NDEO has created this webpage to house current dance and dance education Research Projects that are actively seeking participants and respondents for surveys (quantitative research) and questionnaires (qualitative research), and more.

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List of Active Research Studies Seeking Participants

Name of Study	Description	Deadline to Participate	School	Contact
World-Building the Future of Dance Education Post-Modernity	This project is seeking dance educators and leaders to explore the future of dance education at the end of modernity. Participants can choose to respond to questions in written form (via email); using voice memos; through visual arts; in a zoom session; or using improvisational movement either on zoom, in person, or submitted as video files. All responses will remain anonymous and data will be securely stored.	7/31/2025	University of Georgia	Elizabeth Osborn - elizabeth.osborn@gmail.com Email Elizabeth if you want to participate
Elevating Technique and Wellbeing in Dance Pedagogical Approaches	My thesis research is about finding the balance of focusing on technique and wellbeing in a dance technique class. I'm hoping to have participants take a 10 minute survey. There are two surveys one could take. There is a student survey that is for students who are 18+ and have taken one dance technique class per week over the course of at least 10 weeks in the last three years. There is also a professor survey for anyone 18+ who has taught in a college/university setting and holds an instructor/professor title.	1/1/2026	University of Oregon	Lilly Fox - lfox@uoregon.edu Take Survey
Qualitative Analysis of the Development of Hip Hop Aesthetics in White Female U.S. Dance Teachers	The research project is a 13- question survey that aims to explore themes using a qualitative approach that leverages thematic analysis and hermeneutic inquiry to investigate the movement aesthetics of White female choreographers within hip-hop dance. This project hopes to answer; •To what extent does Colorblind ideology intersect with Eurocentric dance aesthetics and processes in Hip Hop Choreography by Caucasian women? •To what extent does Color-consciousness ideology intersect with Africanist dance aesthetics and processes in Hip Hop choreography by Caucasian women? We are looking for respondents who identify as White/Caucasian, American females, English speaking, have one or more years experience teaching/choreographing Hip Hop dance in private dance studios, and between the ages of 18-60 years old. The participants will need to complete an anonymous online survey that may take up to 30 minutes.	3/16/2025	Jacksonville University	Neo Lynch - nlynch1@jacksonville.edu Take Survey
Evaluating the Efficacy of Hip Hop Dance as a Form of Therapeutic Intervention	This research and workshop experience explores the healing power and therapeutic nature of Hip Hop Dance. This is part of a larger growing body of research that specifically focuses on using Hip Hop Dance to promote mental health, healing, recovery and support therapeutic practices.	4/27/25	Maria Daniel, iDance Ministry	Maria Daniel - idanceministry@gmail.com Complete Form if you want to participate.
Dancing the Biomes: An Ecological Dance Pedagogy for Embodying Environmental Ethics	The purpose of this research is to investigate how creative dance-based practices help higher education students embody environmental ethics and planetary citizenship. The primary objective is to explore embodied knowing within an ecopedagogical context. Research questions include: 1) In what ways, if any, might these dance-based practices transition students from cognitively knowing facts to physically embodying knowledge? 2) Where do students perceive environmental ethics residing in their moving bodies? 3) How might these dance practices inform students’ awarenesses of global interconnectivity, if at all? Ideally, I would like to come to a university/college dance department and run this ecodance curriculum with undergraduate dance students as a one-week intensive or as a semester-long course. DTB is anchored in the framework of participatory action research methodology, so teaching is integral to the research. Participants would need to participate in the class activities and record their responses through written reflections and drawings.	6/1/25	Prescott College	Stephanie Gottlob - stephanie.gottlob@student.prescott.edu Email Stephanie if you want to participate
Biography of Helen Tamiris	I am currently working on a comprehensive biography of the dancer/choreographer Helen Tamiris. I am using her autobiographical writings about her childhood and early career, newspaper and magazine articles, photographs, and interviews with Tamiris and people who knew her. My goal with this book is to create a full picture of Tamiris which includes delving into the issues of cultural appropriation that are embedded in some of her work. I would like to interview people who studied with her and/or performed with her.	8/1/26	Montclair State University	Elizabeth McPherson - mcphersone@montclair.edu or cell: 973-655-7831 More Info about Elizabeth Contact Elizabeth directly if you have studied or performed with Helen Tamiris
Reframing Modern Dance in a Post-Post Modern Era	This project consists of two anonymous six question surveys. One survey is for people who have taken modern dance and one is for people who have taught modern dance. These surveys aim to explore how similar/different modern classes may be and what instructors/students view as the most important parts of modern dance. This is not intended to change or say that there is one right way to teach, but rather to observe and document trends and best practices. This research will be consolidated into a paper reflecting these trends as the possible connective tissue of this genre. All participants will need to do is click the link and answer the six questions, then they are done.	9/1/25	University of New Mexico	Jessica Wilson - jessthewilson@gmail.com or cell: 814-424-3210 Survey (taken) Survey (taught)

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