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  • ‘A Place in the Homeland? Turkish-German Return Migration’: Q&A with the authors

    Nilay Kılınç and Russell King discuss the making of their book on second-generation Turkish-German return migration

    August 21, 2025
    Read more: ‘A Place in the Homeland? Turkish-German Return Migration’: Q&A with the authors

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Guest Blog Post – Socrates: Mark Morris on Death and Dying

In 1917, Erik Satie faced a spiritual dilemma—the challenge of giving voice to death, to nothingness. The composer had begun setting fragments of Plato’s narrative account of Socrates’s final days and death. Satie wanted the music to be ‘as white…

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  • April 28, 2015
‘Spanish Entree Performed by Mr Desnoyer’, Anthony L’Abbe, A New Collection of Dances [London, c.1725], plate 74, appearing in MONSIEUR DESNOYER, PART 1: 1721–1733, DOI: drs.2013.005969

Monsieur Desnoyer – Mapping Choreography. 18C Dance Design

Below is a beautiful illustration of ‘Spanish Entree Performed by Mr Desnoyer and choreographed by Anthony L’Abbe’. Full of jumps, turns and entrechats, a virtuoso vocabulary runs throughout the solo. Appearing in the article, “The Celebrated Monsieur Desnoyer, Part 1:…

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  • February 26, 2015

What does neuroscience offer to dance? What does dance offer to neuroscience?

“Dancers are experts in mental processes such as memory, timing and motor cognition, and the study of dance can provide insight into these basic processes…. At the same time, several changes in psychology and neuroscience, make dance a more attractive…

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