School of Dance Director Melonie Murray presents at the National Association of Kinesiology in Higher Education (NAKHE) annual conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico on January 7, 2025. The conference paper, "Dance Science: the Interdisciplinary Connection for Dance and Kinesiology," was co-authored with UC Berkeley's Director of Physical Education Steven Murray.
Kinesiology and dance have a long, and at times, complicated history. This presentation traces the development of the academic discipline of dance from its beginnings in women’s departments of physical education to its current state as a mature discipline and how dance science is a catalyst for a closer bond between dance and kinesiology.