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Seeking Research Participants

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. 

NDEO will promote this webpage (SEEKING Research Subjects / Participants) of active dance and dance education research projects via eblasts, and social media posts, where appropriate.  If you are currently conducting research and need to get the word out, submit your Research Study below!

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List of Active Research Studies Seeking Participants

Name of Study Description Deadline to Participate School  Contact
Implementing SEL in the Classroom Through the Art of Dance: A Qualitative Study The purpose of the qualitative descriptive case study is to understand the perspective of secondary dance educators in Manhattan and Bronx public and charter schools and the reasons they cannot effectively integrate social-emotional learning within dance classes. •Dance educators for 6- to 12-grade students in Manhattan and Bronx public and charter schools located in New York City,

•Must have teaching experience of at least two years,
Experience and understanding of Social-emotional learning
7/31/2025 National University

Destiny Brown - D.Brown8142@o365.ncu.edu

  • People to Participate in a Live Virtual Event (ex. focus group)
  • Other (Zoom - open ended questions)

Email D.Brown8142@o365.ncu.edu to participate

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

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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

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