MA Performance
Dance
Cathy Childs BA, PGCert
Principal Lecturer in Dance and Head of Dance Subject Area, MA Performance Pathway Coordinator
Option Modules: Pedagogical Approaches, 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
Ann Nugent MA, PhD
Senior Lecturer in Dance, Independent Researchers’ Pathway Coordinator
Option Modules: Writing and Performance, Writing and Criticism
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
Andrea Davidson BA, MA, DEA, PhD
Senior Lecturer in Dance
Option Modules: New Media and Performance Practices
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 Marocco; Double Jeu for the Académie de Cirque Fratellini, Saint-Denis; a multimedia scenography 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.
Jill Hayes MA PGCE MSc., Cert. Counselling, Cert. Creative Arts Therapies, MA, PhD
Senior Lecturer in Dance
Option Modules: Experiencing Arts Therapies, Embodying the Myth
Research / Publications: Performing the dreams of your body (archive publishing, 2007), chapter in Dance movement therapy: theory, practice and research. Routledge, 2007, article: Reflections in Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy. Research concerns the benefits of dance movement therapy for choreographers and dancers.
Clare Parfitt BA, MA, PhD
Senior Lecturer in Dance
Option Modules: Performing Politics
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 US, France, South Korea and the UK.
