Dancing otherwise: new assemblages for pluriversal practices

This writing articulates praxis-led approaches arising from the co-authors’ research network Dancing Otherwise: Exploring Pluriversal Practices, funded by the United Kingdom’s Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) from October 2023 to March 2025. It presents commentary on embodied modalities of reflexive enquiry employed by the network, which aimed to examine the structures and frameworks around which dance research is organised in the UK. This article explores how the research presents innovation in praxis within dance studies and dance research, and contributes to an emerging inter- and transdisciplinary field of awareness-based approaches to systemic transformation.