MA Performance
Dance
Marisa Zanotti BA
Senior Lecturer in Dance, MA Coordinator, Makers' Pathway Coordinator
Core Modules: Reflective Practice, Compositional Practice
Research/Publications: Work for the screen. PhD research based on past work in dance and film.
Commercial Work/Professional: Award-winning artist currently working in film - first short film was screened at many international film festivals and nominated for a BAFTA and a BIFA. Directed extensively in dance and theatre with commissions from Arnolfini, Tramway, CCA and Edinburgh International Festival. £25,000 Creative Scotland Award. Currently developing a feature with writer, David Greig.
Cathy Childs BA, PGCert
Principal Lecturer in Dance and Head of Dance Subject Area, MA Performance Pathway Coordinator
Core Modules: Techniques for Performance
Research / Publications: Investigating the choreographic work of Merce Cunningham and its technical dance style. Teaching and Pedagogical approaches in relation to undergraduate dance, PE and MA dance students in developing them as individual teachers.
Commercial Work / Professional: Dancer / teacher / examiner
Yael Flexer MA
Artistic Director of mapdance touring company
Research / Publications: Investigating intimacy in performance for practice-based PhD
Commercial Work / Professional: Winner of Jerwood Choreography Award. Choreographer, and Artistic Director of Bedlam Dance Company, touring nationally and internationally, alongside creating interactive installations and site-specific projects, for, among others, Sadler’s Wells, South Bank Centre, Arts Depot.
Detta Howe BA, Advanced Performance Diploma
Co artistic Director of mapdance touring company
Commercial Work / Professional: Artistic Director of Havant-based Ginger Dance Theatre for whom she has made more than 20 works, touring widely throughout the South and beyond. Also toured with Transitions Dance Company and has taught a wide range of ages and abilities, ranging from 4-year olds, through to professional dancers to over 50s.
Ann Nugent MA, PhD
Senior Lecturer in Dance, Independent Researchers’ Pathway Coordinator
Core Modules: Independent Research Projects, Dissertation
Research, Awards and Publications: Choreography of William Forsythe, expressionism, intertextuality and deconstruction processes. AHRC research leave award to complete a book on the work of William Forsythe
Commercial Work / Professional: Dance critic and writer
Sarah Rubidge B.Ed (Hons), MPhil, PhD
Professor in Choreography and New Media
Core Modules:Dissertation
Research, Awards and Publications: Specialism in choreographic and interactive installations. Research into choreographic systems in and for interactive installations including non-optical tracking systems for choreography (AHRC grant); choreographic systems for multi-user interactive sonic installations e.g. Sensuous Geographies (Scottish Arts Council Award); the development of generative colour/motion systems for installations Fugitive Moments (Wellcome Trust award). As an internationally recognised scholar, she is an invited Keynote Speaker at conferences in Australia, Korea, Greece, Portugal, Scandinavia and the author of several chapters in books on dance and digital performance, numerous papers and articles in journals and other publications, and a frequent contributor to conferences and Practice as Research publications.
Commercial Work / Professional: Sensuous Geographies (2003), an interactive digital performance/installation, with composer Alistair MacDonald; global drifts (2006) with Helen Sky, a multi-sited performance event, featuring distributed choreography of digital imagery and live performance on-site in Australia, and in Britain and Korea; Fugitive Moments (2006), a digital installation with scientist Beau Lotto; Eros Eris (2007), a digital performance with choreographer Liz Lea for the Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House, London
Andrea Davidson BA, MA, DEA, PhD
Senior Lecturer in Dance
Core Modules: Reflective Practice, Dissertation
Research, Awards and Publications: Specialist in video, dance and new media and new choreographic practices involving interactivity and generativity. Authour of the book Bains Numériques #1:Danse et nouvelles technologies and numerous articles and chapters in books, journals and revues. Award-winning choreographer-videographer and multimedia artist of funded works including La morsure, a pioneer interactive choreography for CD-ROM and installation, presented in international art centres, festivals, conferences and exhibitions as well as receiving the Prix de l'Écriture Multimédia de la Fondation Beaumarchais, a special mention from the jury of the Festival Napolidanza Il Coreografo Elettronico and the Grand Prix International Videodanse section New Media from UNESCO.
Commercial Work / Professional: Other works include Paysages Humains with theatre company Faim de Siècle; Maâlem Expérience
and the interactive installation DiaPH with Gnawa musicians from Morocco; Double Jeu for the Académie de Cirque Fratellini, Saint-
Denis; a multimedia scenography for D’anna-chronique… pavlova
moi and the installation Anaphorique(s) with Spanish choreographer Anna Ventura; concerts, websites and DVDs for a number of
musicians in Paris; and Paroles trouvées, a spatialized audio, videochoreographic, optical installation with French composer Dominique Besson.
Clare Parfitt BA, MA, PhD
Senior Lecturer in Dance
Core Modules: Dissertation
Research / Publications: Research focuses on the historical and cultural construction of dancing bodies during modernity and postmodernity, particularly in popular dance contexts, both live and on screen. Doctoral research investigated the body politics of the cancan at selected moments in its history from its emergence in the late 1820s to Baz Luhrmann’s film Moulin Rouge! Research has been published in the journal Research in Dance Education and presented at conferences in the USA, France, South Korea and the UK.
