Dr. Akinleye is Senior Lecture at Middlesex University. Her work explores the embodied narratives people construct to make meaning of their lived experiences. She has a particular interest in ‘Place’ a co-constructed transaction across mind-full-body and environment for which dance offers languages.
Jane is a Jungian Analyst, Focusing Trainer and Teacher of the Discipline of Authentic Movement. She was part of the UK Higher Education development of practice-as-research in performance. She is interested in the development of unique methodological approaches developed by artist researchers through and by practice. She is co-editor of Choreographic Practices Journal and co-Director […]
Fiona Bannon (PhD) is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Performance and Cultural Industries, University of Leeds, UK where she teaches courses in research methods, performance, choreography and collaborative practice. Fiona is the current Chair of DanceHE, the representative body for dance in higher education in the UK. As the Chair of World Dance […]
Eleanor Bauer is a choreographer, dancer, and performer from Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. She studied at Idyllwild Arts Academy in California, New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, and P.A.R.T.S. (Performing Arts Research and Training Studios) in Brussels. She has been collaborating with dancers, visual artists, composers, musicians, singers, actors, and filmmakers to […]
Carol Brown is a choreographer, performer, researcher and artistic director working on collaborative projects that draw upon place histories and body archives. Formerly Choreographer in Residence at the Place Theatre London, she has held residencies in the USA, Czech Republic, Malaysia, Spain, India, Germany and Chile and toured her work internationally. Major works include the […]
Franc Chamberlain is Professor of Drama Theatre and Performance at the University of Huddersfield. He was the founding editor of the Routledge Performance Practitioners series which he currently co-edits with Bernadette Sweeney, is a former editor of Contemporary Theatre Review and is currently on the editorial boards of several journals including Theatre, Dance and Performance […]
Carlos Alberto Ferreira is a director, performer, actor and theatrical producer. He is currently a lecturer at Universidade do Estado da Bahia, UNEB (State University of Bahia). Between 2014 and 2016 he was a temporary lecturer at UFBA’s School of Theatre. (Bahia Federal University). He has a Ph.D. in Performing Arts from UFBA and developed […]
Scott deLahunta has worked as writer, researcher and organiser on a range of international projects bringing performing arts with a focus on choreography into conjunction with other disciplines and practices. He is currently Professor of Dance, Centre for Dance Research, Coventry University (UK), Senior Research Fellow, Deakin Motion.Lab, Deakin University (AUS) and co-director (with Florian […]
Simon Ellis is a choreographer, dancer and film-maker interested in practices and ideas to do with (not necessarily at the same time) power, responsibility, memory, dialogue and screens. Simon has a practice-as-research PhD from the University of Melbourne. The research explored liveness, improvisation, documentation and remembering, and was presented as a DVD-ROM. His work as […]
Marie Fahlin is a choreographer, dancer and curator. Together with Rebecca Chentinell she runs the organization Koreografiska Konstitutet which curates festivals, choreographic projects and publishes Koreografisk Journal. Fahlin is also a member of Weld Company. She is currently doing a PhD in in Performative Practices, with a specialisation in choreography, at Uniarts, Stockholm, with the […]
Gabang is a performer and facilitator whose educational background includes a B.A in Drama and Organisational Psychology and a MA in Choreography and Movement Research from Rhodes University in South Africa. Gabang has worked and collaborated with institutions and organisations such as the Swiss Arts Council, The South African School of Motion Picture Medium and […]
Dr Sara Giddens (Reader in Choreographic Practice) is a choreographer and creative facilitator. She also teaches on the Dance Performance and Teaching course at the University of Central Lancashire. Having worked on the Articulating Dance project, as part of Choreographic Lab, Sara completed a practice-based PhD entitled Still Small Acts in 2015, co-hosted by Dance4 […]
Jeannette Ginslov is a specialist in digital dance for AR and Screen. She has an MSc Media Arts & Imaging – Screendance from Dundee University Scotland (Distinction) and an MA in Choreography, Rhodes University South Africa. Currently she is a Creative Technologies PhD Candidate, with a Scholarship from the Applied Science and Arts & Media […]
Dr. Laura Gröndahl works as a University Lecturer of Artistic Research at the Performing Arts Research Centre in the Theatre Academy of the University of Arts, Helsinki. She also holds the title of docent in Theatre Research at Helsinki University. Having the background as a practicing scenographer, she has worked in different positions at many […]
Margrét Sara Guðjónsdóttir is an Icelandic choreographer living and working in Berlin (msgudjonsdottir.com). She has created and toured internationally her performance work since 2010. Displaying the politics of intimacy and exploring pathologies of the social political body are core themes within her choreographic work. In 2013 her work started taking shape from her on going […]
Dr. Pil Hansen is an Associate Professor at the School of Creative and Performing Arts, University of Calgary (Canada), a founding member of Vertical City Performance, and a dance/devising dramaturg. Her empirical and Practice-as-Research experiments examine the effect on memory, perception, and cognitive flexibility of creative processes. Hansen developed the tool-set “Perceptual Dramaturgy” and, with […]
D.A. (Dance) Kirsi Heimonen is an artist-researcher acting as a visiting researcher at the Performing Arts Research Centre of the Theatre Academy, University of the Arts in Helsinki, Finland. She belongs to a multidisciplinary research project Engraved in the Body. Finnish people’s memories from mental hospital (funded by Kone foundation) in which she focuses on […]
Rebecca Hilton is a performer, choreographer, teacher and writer working in the field of dance. She is a Professor of Choreography in the Profile Area Site, Event, Encounter at the Stockholm University of the Arts. Her research practice includes instituting long-term artistic residencies in contexts where art doesn’t usually happen. Currently she is in residence […]
Dr Hanna Järvinen currently works as a Senior Researcher in the Academy of Finland project How to Do Things with Performance?, 2016–2020, and as Lecturer at the doctoral programme of the Theatre Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki, Finland. She is a docent in dance history at the University of Turku, Finland, and […]
Thomas Kampe (Ph.D.) has worked as a performing artist, researcher and somatic educator across the globe. He works as Senior Lecturer at Bath Spa University, UK, where he directs the Creative Corporealities Research Group. Collaborations include work with Liz Aggiss, Hilde Holger, Julia Pascal, Tanzinitiative Hamburg, Somatische Akademie Berlin and with Carol Brown on re-embodying […]
Susan Kozel is known for artistic and philosophical work applying phenomenology to a range of sensory, affective and somatic practices. For the past two decades she has worked at the convergence between dance, philosophy and digital technologies. She is a Professor with the School of Art and Communication at Malmö University, directed the Living Archives […]
Paula Kramer is a dance researcher and movement artist living and working between Berlin and Helsinki. She has a background in Political Sciences (M.A. 2005) and holds a practice-as-research PhD in Dance from Coventry University (2015). Her work focuses on site-specific movement practices and she is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Artistic Research […]
Keith Lim is a Jack of All Trades, Master of Solo / Dance / Authorship (HZT, Berlin). His work bridges performance art, dance, DIY technology and somatic practices: resulting in award winning physical theatre, interactive festival installations and immersive game art (zombiesurvival.academy, www.kidsthesedays.com.au)
Alys Longley is an interdisciplinary performance maker, teacher and writer. Her interests span practice-led research, performance writing, interdisciplinary projects, art and ecology and narrative research. Her work has been performed in NZ, Australia, Germany, UK, Chile, and Portugal. Alys’s books The Foreign Language of Motion (2014) and Radio Strainer (2016) are published by Winchester University […]
Josephine Machon is Associate Professor in Contemporary Performance at Middlesex University, London. She is the author of The Punchdrunk Encyclopaedia (Routledge 2018), Immersive Theatres: Intimacy and Immediacy in Contemporary Performance (Palgrave Macmillan 2013) and (Syn)aesthetics: Redefining Visceral Performance (Palgrave Macmillan 2009, 2011), and has published widely on immersive, interactive and experiential performance practices.
Dr Kate Marsh is a post-doctoral research assistant at C-DaRE and an associate producer at Metal an interdisciplinary art organisation, she is also an associate artist with Candoco Dance Company. Kate’s practice-research explores the position of the disabled dance artist and seeks to examine spaces in-between binary understandings of ‘normative’ and ‘other’. She also co-choreographs […]
Susanne Martin is a Berlin-based choreographer, performer, researcher, and teacher in the field of contemporary dance and theatre. She presents her work internationally in solo performances and collaborative stage works. Her artistic practice and research focus on improvisation as choreographic practice, critical narrations of the age(ing) body, contact improvisation, and practice as research/artistic research. Festivals […]
Emma Meehan is Research Fellow at Coventry University’s Centre for Dance Research. Edited collections include Dance Matters in Ireland: Contemporary Performance and Practice with Aoife McGrath (Palgrave 2018) and Performing Process: Sharing Dance and Choreographic Practice with Hetty Blades (Intellect 2018). Recent artistic research projects include the Live Archive performance and exhibition (2016–2017) funded by […]
Susan Melrose is Emeritus Professor in Performing Arts at Middlesex University. She is widely published in the Performing Arts and many instances of her work can be found on www.sfmelrose.org.uk
Vida L Midgelow is Professor in Dance and Choreographic Practices based at Middlesex University where she leads the doctoral provision for the Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries. As an artist scholar she works on PaR methodologies, improvisation and articulation processes and has published widely in these areas. Her practice includes somatically informed improvisational works, […]
Lee Miller is a performance practitioner, scholar, and yoga teacher. Lee Miller and Joanne ‘Bob’ Whalley have been working together on practice as research outputs since they began their conjoined PaR PhD in 2000. They continue to write and make practice together.
Peter Mills (SE) 23.02.87 better known as PETER (Stateless), who defines art as that which facilitates a space, a gap within the system, within social norms, which produces a dubitability of the state of things and allows a collective of persons to silently agree, not presume, assume or count on, but expect difference. PETER creates […]
Stephanie Misa is a visual artist and doctoral researcher at the University of Arts in Helsinki. She currently lives in Vienna, Austria. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (2012) in Installation Arts & Sculpture with Univ.-Prof. Monica Bonvicini and has a masters from the Interactive Telecommunications Program, Tisch School of the Arts, […]
Chrysa Parkinson is a dancer living in Stockholm. She has been performing and teaching internationally since 1985. Her artistic research is focused on the performer’s experiential authorship. Chrysa’s writing, films and interviews have been published and distributed internationally. She is a Professor of Dance and the Director of the New Performative Practices MFA program at […]
Liisa Pentti (MA) is a choreographer, dancer and the artistic director of her international dance company Liisa Pentti+Co. Her works have been presented throughout the Scandinavia, Russia and in many European countries. She has a long teaching carrier both as a freelancer and in the Theatre Academy of Helsinki. She has been working with autistic […]
Zoë Poluch has the unique capacity to make the most simple questions into complex investigations, and thus the format of a bio into an impossible endeavour. Her practice spans from instigating practice based collaborations to dancing poems about dance, in a detour across stage performances, sound choreographies and movements of the social life. Her deeply […]
Amaara Raheem is a choreographer, performer, researcher and writer based in Melbourne. Her work takes multiple modes – live events, video, text, and song/spoken word – and has been presented in Australia, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Canada, UK, and throughout Europe. She collaborates with artists and researchers from other fields to make work that is […]
Vice Dean in Research and Professor in Artistic Research, Dr. Leena Rouhiainen, is head of the Performing Arts Research Centre of the Theatre Academy, University of the Arts in Helsinki, Finland. She is a dancer-choreographer and dance scholar. Together with her artistic collaborators, she has received several national awards artistic work in Finland. She has […]
Stefanie Sachsenmaier is Senior Lecturer in Theatre Arts, BA Theatre Arts (Performance) Programme Leader and Senior HEA Fellow. Her research interests and publications relate to the processual in creative practice. Over ten years she closely worked with British choreographer Rosemary Butcher in a research context and has published a series of writings in this context. […]
Ellen Söderhult is a dancer, choreographer, and writer based in Stockholm with an educational background in music, circus, and athletetics. She holds two BA’s from SKH/DOCH: in contemporary dance performance, and in contemporary circus/acrobatics. She makes her own works, collaborates with others, performs in the work of other authors, sits on several advisory boards and […]
Artist Cara Tolmie (born 1984, Glasgow) works from within the intersections of performance, music and moving image. Her works probe the site-specific conditions of performance-making by finding ways to vocalise and place her body that access the political and poetic capabilities of physical, written and musical languages. Recent performances, such as Till It Feels Alright […]
Amy Voris is a dance-maker based in Manchester. Her practice is process-oriented and collaborative, driven by the desire to develop enduring relationships with people and with movement material. Her doctoral research (University of Chichester) is investigating the process of forming, returning to, and deepening the relationship with movement material over an extended period of time. Alongside […]
Joanne ‘Bob’ Whalley is a performance academic, performance maker, and acupuncturist.
John-Paul Zaccarini is a cross-disciplinary performer and director, currently Associate Professor in Circus at Stockholm University of the Arts. In the 90’s he produced queer anarchist performance with his company Angels of Disorder, curated visual and performance art in his gallery Studio 29, Vyner Street and worked with circus internationally. In the 00’s he toured […]
Dr Marisa Zanotti is a Reader in Choreography and Digital Technologies and an award winning artist-researcher. Her work has consistently investigated the cultural significance of the body in new knowledges generated by choreographic practices, this includes exploring how these knowledges might interface with popular culture. Her practice-led research is driven by a fascination with relationships […]
Norah Zuniga Shaw is an artist, writer and creative director best known for her award-winning digital projects and interdisciplinary collaborations. She is currently touring performances and community dialogs focusing on changing climates and is co-directing the Collaboration for Humane Technologies and the Livable Futures collective. She is a Professor and Director for Dance and Technology […]