OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Research in Dance Education is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
‘Listening is done by using all the senses’ a study of how dancers create, communicate and perceive a choreographed dance	16
The embodied nature of physical theater: artistic expression, emotions, interactions	14
Augmented dance lessons for diaspora Indian older adults: examining the impact on adjustments, quality of life, and physical agility	11
Editorial	8
Leading the dance: application of social identity leadership theory in dance teaching	6
Training dancers for virtuoso performances: a field experiment with mindfulness training	6
Effects of a hip-hop dance intervention on psychological and cognitive measures for adolescent females	5
Is the health risk and consequence of generalised joint hypermobility understood within a classical ballet narrative? Concerns for dance practitioners	5
Bias of responses to white and black dance companies and their dancers on Instagram	5
Masculinity, intersectionality and identity: why boys (don’t) dance	5
Parenting, Roma feminism, and dance: cultivating an egalitarian dance-research environment	4
Correlates of dispositional flow and emotional intelligence: an exploratory study with ballet dancers	4
Editorial	4
Dancing after homelessness	4
Visual and sound gesture in dance communication	4
‘I did not know that the pupils loved dancing … until the projector came’: constructions of dance as learning activity in school-age educare	3
Negotiating dance academia and parenting: a conversation between colleagues and friends	3
Editorial	3
Editorial, special issue: dancing, parenting and professional challenges	3
Virtually in synch: a pilot study on affective dimensions of dancing with Parkinson’s during COVID-19	3
Keep Movin’ On in Trinidad and Tobago: the complexities of COVID-19 on dance and dance education	3
Dancing Across the Lifespan - Negotiating Age, Place, and Purpose, coDancing Across the Lifespan - Negotiating Age, Place, and Purpose, co-edited by Pam Musil, Doug Risner, and Karen Schupp, Palgrave	3
Commencing on the Right Foot towards (On)Line of Dance –an Empirical Study in India	3
Dance as a tool for managing emotions. A systematic review	3
Artist wellbeing: exploring the experiences of dance artists delivering community health and wellbeing initiatives	2

The aid of ChatGPT to dance education: a theoretical exploration based on TPACK	2
Students’ voices on the effects of expressive activities on their creativity, affectivity, and social relationships	2
Meshwork choreography: a pragmatic approach to collaborative embodied learning in South African higher education	2
Community dance for preschool teachers’ training during pandemic: an art-based research	2
What good is it anyway? Professional dance artists legitimising their work for the Cultural Schoolbag in Norwegian schools	2
Effects of sema activity on static and dynamic balances and performance	2
Doing dance research in pandemic times: fostering connection and support in a 7-step online collaborative interview analysis process	2
Editorial	2
An analysis on the cultural contexts of Bɔsoɛ as an endangered Asante traditional dance	1
Hidden communication codes in flamenco dance choreography	1
Disturbed eating attitudes, social physique anxiety, and perceived pressure for thin body in professional dancers	1
“Dancer as collaborator, co-author, co-owner, co-creator: power relations between dancer and choreographer”	1
Facilitating dance in general education through the arts-school partnership: a case study of Ballet Ireland’s primary school program	1
Viewpoint Dynamic touch is effective for learning the appropriate level of muscle tension and engagement: Implications from classical ballet	1
Instructor strategies to support older adults’ physical literacy in community dance classes	1
‘Kola nga bwoyiga ate oyige nga bwokola’: navigating dance pedagogies in technologically less advanced African environments during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Toward a salsa dancing hegemony: dancing-with Laclau with-Derrida	1
Editorial	1
‘We put on the music and then the children dance’ - Swedish preschool teachers’ dance educational experiences	1
Editorial	1
Editorial	1
Healing minds, moving bodies: measuring the mental health effects of online dance during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Cultural empowerment: the space production and local identity effects of square dancing on middle-aged and elderly rehabilitation patients—based on a qualitative study of three square dancing communit	1
Editorial	1
Development of artistic and imaginative thinking of the future choreography teacher in the process of professional training	1
Modern strategies for dance teacher performance management at dance colleges on the example of Central China	1
Editorial	1
The teacher’s body: injury and evolution of teaching	1
Examining implicit leadership theories in a dance and dance education context	1
Spanish ballet school: nationalism, the weakness of bourgeois culture and heteronomy in the artistic field in Spain in the nineteenth century	1
Building a case for coaching: informing an innovative, pedagogical approach to dancer development	1