University of Auckland: Moving Our Thinking
Dr Ralph Buck - Ten Year Tenure

By Barbara Snook

The University of Auckland's Move Your Thinking dance programme turned ten this year. The programme's motto 'Move your Thinking' encapsulates a vision for dance that staff and students strive for at the University. They believe the principles, "to value the moving body as a site for and means for enabling thinking and knowledge creation, with research, curriculum and teaching a reflection of this on a daily basis", are as relevant today as ever, and they will take them forward another ten years.

These principles have been at the core of Associate Professor Ralph Buck's philosophy for the programme as the Head of Dance Studies for the past ten years.

Read full article: Move Your Thinking: Ten Years On

Read DANZ Magazine article: Move Your Thinking: Dancing Behind Bars