Abstract
This category is meant for exclusive column on Dance research by Dr Shobha Shashikumar.‘Dance Research’ seems to be a continuously researched term. It is either probed with suspicion or with doubt or with confusion. Nevertheless, it has been privileged to be caressed by the most brilliant and responsible hands from the past, that it has laid a strong footing for the posterity. The conflict between ‘theory and practice’ is what, that has kept the debate alive till date (whether dance research is mandatory or even essential for that matter for dance practitioners). The need for research does not seem to be questioned in any other discipline whatsoever.
