Miss Claire Farmer
Acting Director of Programmes for Dance

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School Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries
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Department School of Arts
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Location London
Research activities
Claire's PhD research lies in physiology and biomechanics within student and professional dancers.
Alongside this Claire also researches in dance for health of the general population and through consumer arts consumption.
Farmer, C and Brain, A. 2025. Rigour and Reality, Animated! PeopleDancing, People Dancing :: Winter 2025 :: Foundation for CommunityDance
Farmer, C and Brouner, J. 2025. Frequency of Upper Body Muscular Demandsin Contemporary and Ballet Dance Performance: A Cross-Sectional PerformanceAnalysis, Journal of Dance Medicine and Science https://doi.org/10.1177/1089313X251313664
Farmer, C and Kindred, H .2024. The ‘Female’ Dancer: a soma-scientificapproach, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, UK
Farmer, C., De’Ath, S. and Brouner, J. 2024. Strength Training PerceptionsAmongst Vocational Circus and Dance Students, Journal of Dance Medicine andScience, 28(1), 37-42, https://doi.org/10.1177/1089313X23120416
Boardman, R., Balfour, A., Farmer, C., Hopkins, S., Stamp, K. 2023. SocialValue of Movement and Dance. Sport and Recreation Alliance, UK, available at https://sramedia.s3.amazonaws.com/media/documents/a634c6ce-ac67-48d1-ac0d-290fc502f289.pdf