Professor Christy Adair is Professor Emerita of Dance Studies at York St John University and Visiting Professor of Dance at the University of Bedfordshire.

Her book, Dancing the Black Question: the Phoenix Dance Company Phenomenon (Dance Books: 2007) offers a critique of key issues in performance.

Her research interests, developed in Women and Dance: sylphs and sirens (Macmillan: 1992) continue to focus on gender and ethnicity in relation to dance studies and performance investigating contemporary dance in Africa and the Diaspora.

With Professor Ramsay Burt she curated an exhibition at the International Slavery Museum, Liverpool as part of an Arts and Humanities Research funded project entitled British dance: Black routes, also the title of their co-edited book (Routledge: 2017). Most recently, her chapter co-written with Dr Laura Griffiths on inter-generational dance was published in Dance Fields: Staking a Claim for Dance Studies in the Twenty-First Century (Dance Books: 2020).

christy.adair@gmail.com