Andrée Grau obituary

My colleague Andrée Grau, who has died unexpectedly aged 63, was professor of the anthropology of dance at Roehampton University. She helped establish the anthropology of dance as an academic discipline, continuing the trajectory she had started as a student of social anthropology at Queen’s University in Belfast, receiving her PhD in 1983.Andrée grew up in a Swiss mountain village, daughter of Suzanne Durgnat, a herbalist, and André Grau, a pharmacist. She studied in