[3] She attended the School of Russian Ballet in London and worked with Albrecht Knust and Kurt Jooss at the Folkwangschule in Essen.
[1] After a short break for her family (she has a son and daughter), she retrained (1967–81) gaining an Adv Diploma in Education, an MA (dist) in Movement Studies and a PhD in Choreology concurrently teaching and researching at the Laban Centre for Movement and Dance until 2008.
Her most recent DVD, In Memoriam (2014), a movement choir for all ages, was made in the memorial year for the First World War.
Preston-Dunlop's AHRC funded research (2008) enabled her to create interactive maps of the multimedia creative processes in William Forsythe's The Loss of Small Detail.
[6] Her books on dance practice and on Rudolf Laban are key texts in Performing Arts departments in the UK and abroad [6]