Klein will address several questions: What is special about dance studies? What are its theories and methods? How can dance studies be integrated into an interdisciplinary scientific landscape? How is dance research possible not through and about, but in and with artistic practice? What effects and repercussions does dance research have on artistic practice? How can a successful transfer between dance art and dance studies, practice and theory look like? 

Prof. dr. Gabriele Klein, professor by special appointment of Ballet and Dance (Hans van Manen chair): What is, and to what End do we study, Dance Studies?

The inaugural lecture will be in English.

You can watch this inaugural lecture here.