Marisa Zanotti. BA

Designation:

Senior Lecturer in Dance, Makers' Pathway Coordinator, MA Coordinator

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.

Valerie Briginshaw. BEd, MA, MPhil, PhD

Designation:

Professor in Dance

Modules:

Reflective Practice, Writing and Performance, Dissertation

Research / Publications:

Dance, Space and Subjectivity (Palgrave, 2001)

Arts & Humanities Research Grant £136,000 in 2001

Website www.embamb.com (external link), chapters in Anarchic Dances and Performing Nature currently working on a joint book with Professor Ramsay Burt - Writing Dancing Together.

Cathy Childs. BA, PGCert

Designation:

Principal Lecturer in Dance and Head of Dance Subject Area. MA Performance Pathway Coordinator

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

Yael Flexer. MA

Designation:

Artistic Director of mapdance touring company

Modules:

Repertory 1 & 2, Techniques for Performance

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.

Ann Nugent. MA, PhD

Designation:

Senior Lecturer in Dance, Independent Researchers’ Pathway Coordinator

Modules:

Independent Research Projects, Writing and Performance, Writing and Criticism

Research / 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

Clare Parfitt. BA, MA, PhD

Designation:

Senior Lecturer in Dance

Modules:

Reflective Practice, Dissertation

Research / Publications:

PhD research focused on the cancan as a site for the physical
negotiation and performance of various social, political and
historical forces at various moments during the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries work published in Research in Dance Education.

Andrea Davidson. MA, DEA, PhD

Designation:

Senior Lecturer in Dance

Modules:

New Media and Performance Practices, Reflective Practice, Dissertation

Research / Publications:

Specialist in the field of dance and new technology involving such new choreographic practices as interactivity and generativity. Authour of the book Bains Numériques #1 : Danse et nouvelles technologies, a commission of the Centre des Arts d'Enghien-les-Bains, and numerous articles and chapters in books, journals and magazines.

Commercial Work / Professional:

Award-winning choreographer-videographer and multimedia artist of many works including La morsure, a pioneer digital interactive choreography for CD-ROM and installation, presented in numerous international art centres, festivals, conferences and exhibitions as well as receiving the Prix de l'Écriture Multimédia de la Fondation Beaumarchais (1997); special mention from the jury of the Festival Napolidanza "Il Coreografo Elettronico" (2000); and the Grand Prix International Videodanse section New Media from UNESCO (2002). Website: http://a.davidson.free.fr