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. The PhD is fully funded by C-DaRE. My research investigates cultural transmission popping and British experience

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In 2020 I was commissioned to write a dance image archive book by The British Library to be published in autumn, 2022

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

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PoP Moves UK committee member: an international research group for popular dance and performance.

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Former Visiting Fellow at The Eccles Centre, British Library 

My ongoing research

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

 

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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Papers

Blurring Boundaries: Urban Street meets Contemporary Dance – Serendipity, Du Montfort University

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ADAD: 21st ANNIVERSARY EDITION, P75-77

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Skills n Drills, Animated Magazine, 2010

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Writing

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To read my British Library Eccles Centre BLOG please click on the button below

Hip hop theatre contributor on the forthcoming publication: Bloomsbury, the Encyclopaedia of Modern Theatre focusing on the ways in which street/urban/popular dance styles have impacted on the theatre

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Talks
 

Southbank University – The role of Artistic Director

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The Place, London – The life of a choreographer

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University of East London Dance: Urban Practice - Hip Hop Pedagogies

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University of East London Dance: Urban Practice - Hip Hop Theatre

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Northampton University - Hip Hop Dance and Theatre 

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Rich Mix, London – Hip hop dance archive, commissioned by State of Emergency

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Dance UK (One Dance) AGM at Sadlers Wells  - Websites, culture and information