Education and Training
HS Diploma, Dance, North Carolina School of the Arts, Winston Salem, NC
Professional Dancer, American Ballet Theater II, Houston Ballet, & Boston Ballet
AB, English Literature/Drama, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
EdM, Arts in Education, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
EdM, Technology in Education, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
EdD, Human Development and Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Creative and Research Interests
Ted Warburton works at the intersection of the performing arts, education, and digital technologies. He finds the great successes of these areas are not merely technical – not found isolated in the perfectly articulated word, dance leap, or line of computer code – but are in the measure of human impact. For this reason, he seeks to produce creative and research activities that inform disciplinary practices, provoke personal development, and connect communities within and beyond UC Santa Cruz.
Like many contemporary artists, Warburton employs interactive digital media and telecommunication technologies to create the visual, aural and connective materials for his works. He goes a step further by making digital technologies and remote collaborations essential components in live performances that fuse dance, theater, media, and network designs. A recent dance theater experiment, “Lubricious Transfer” used digital media and Internet2 to produce collaborative, interactive, and simultaneous performances broadcast live to local and remote audiences in Santa Cruz and New York City.
In his scholarly work, Ted investigates thinking through dance, examining the nature of dance cognition and creativity, teaching and learning. His participation in an interdisciplinary working group on motion capture unites these artistic and research concerns in the development of software tools for use in movement skill assessment, distance dance education, and interactive theatrical performance.
Ted serves as a dance faculty member in Theater Arts and as a Project Group leader in the Digital Arts and New Media graduate (MFA) program. He is Director of Research for the National Dance Education Organization and Associate Editor of the Research in Dance Education journal (Routledge).
Selected Publications
Press, C. and Warburton, E.C. (2006). Creativity research in dance. In L. Bresler (ed.) International Handbook of Arts Education. New York: Kluwer/Springer.
Warburton, E.C. (2006). Evolving modes of assessing dance: In search of transformative dance assessment. In P. Taylor (ed.) Assessment in Arts Education. New York: Teachers College Press.
Warburton, E.C. (2006). Media Review of “Choreographic Outcomes CD-ROM,” Dance Research Journal, 38(1), 101-105.
Phelps, R.P., Asmus, E., Ferrara, L., Sadoff, R. and Warburton, E.C. (2005). A guide to research in Music Education, 5th Edition. Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press.
Torff, B.A. and Warburton, E.C. (2005). Assessment of teachers’ beliefs about classroom demand for critical thinking. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 65(1), 1-25.
Warburton, E.C. and Torff, B.A. (2005). Perceived learner advantages and teacher beliefs. Journal of Teacher Education, 56(1), 1-10.
Warburton, E.C. (2004). Who cares? Teaching and learning care in dance. Journal of Dance Education, 4(3), 88-96.
Warburton, E.C. (2004). Knowing what it takes: The effect of perceived learner advantages on dance teachers' use of critical-thinking activities. Research in Dance Education, 5(1), 69-82.
Warburton, E.C. (2003). Intelligence Past, Present, and Possible: Multiple Intelligences in Dance Education. Journal of Dance Education, Special Issue on Multiple Intelligences, 3(1), 7-15.
Torff, B.A. and Warburton, E.C. (2002). Old and New Models of Cognitive Abilities: The assessment conundrum. In P. Herriot (Series Ed.) & M. Pearn (Vol. Ed.), Individual Development in Organizations: A handbook in the psychology of management in organisation series (pp. 73-87). London, UK: Wiley.
Warburton, E.C. (2002). From talent identification to multidimensional assessment: Toward new models of evaluation in dance. Research in Dance Education, 3(2), 103-121.
Teaching Interests
Dance Technique, Improvisation and Composition; Movement Research; Dance Education
Edward C. (Ted) Warburton