Robert Hylton

  all things dance 

Robert Hylton (BA, MA)

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Currently studying for a PhD (Doctor of Philosophy) at Centre for Dance Research: C-DaRE, Coventry University - to be completed in July, 2025. The PhD is fully funded by C-DaRE. My research investigates mediated and lived cultural transmission in popping and Black British social experience

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In 2020 I was commissioned to write a dance image archive book Dancing in Time: The History of Moving and Shaking by The British Library published in autumn, 2022

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My ongoing research

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My research interests focus on streetdance and its relationship with the African diaspora as archive and practice. My main research is popping improvisation as a somatic form.

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Related study UK Jazzdance, hip hop, migration, otherness, film, performance, and speculative future. ​

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Researching the presence of African diaspora street dance in both the UK and US to enable a broader access and understanding to an often hidden or unspoken representation of black performance and dance over the past 200+ years in Britain. With the aim to enhance and promote the visibility and presence of African diaspora street dance through a British perspective and UK Jazzdance pre and post hip hop in education, academia, performance and research.

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The research will help develop a future exhibition and performance work, which focuses on the autonomy of African diaspora street dance as performance in the 21st Century! A presentation based on the research and workshops for community, professional or academic discourse will also be available.

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For more information or questions please get in touch

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Memberships

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PoP Moves UK committee member: an international research group for popular dance and performance. (On a Break)

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Former Associate Research Fellow in the School of Arts at (Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre), University of London, 2019-2023

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Former Visiting Fellow at The Eccles Centre, British Library, 2019