• The Body 

  Peacock, Louise (Book chapter)

  An undeniable feature of the live theater event is the physical presence of the actor’s body. Some facets of comedy demand or are highlighted by the physical presence of the actor’s body on stage and, therefore, emphasize ...

• Pantheistic Poetry; Geological Touring; Chemical Experimentation: Coleridge and Davy in the Mountains and on the Page 

  Fulford, Tim (Article)

  COLERIDGE‘S CONTINUING ENGAGEMENT WITH PANTHEISM has been a staple of scholarly discussion since, at least, Thomas McFarland‘s Coleridge and the Pantheist Tradition.1 More recently, historically-nuanced revisions of ...

• Modern movements: women’s contributions to the success of Rudolf Laban’s ideas and practice in England 1930-1941 

  Huxley, Michael; Burt, Ramsay, 1953- (Article)

  This journal article considers women who could all be said to have been working in the shadow of Rudolf Laban. During the 1930s and 40s in England a number of them developed the new modern dance as independent performers ...

• This is...where we are now 

  Doughty, Sally; Shenton, Pete (Book chapter)

  This chapter responds to the heading of ‘Disruptions and Confluences of Dance Studies’ and is informed by the performance This is… where we are now that was presented by the two authors at the Dance Fields conference. The ...

• REVIEW OF SURVEY METHODS IN EVENTS MANAGEMENT RESEARCH 

  Fletcher, Richard; Bostock, James (Article)

  Questionnaire-based surveys are a common data collection tool in events research as established by earlier reviews of methods within the literature. This paper examines and critiques the historic development, current ...

• "Not Always A Film" The Indian Institute of Digital Art & Animation, Kolkata, West Bengal, India Screening of Bridges 105D, 106, 107 

  Pell, Matthew (Other)

• Downstream Film Festival 2019 Northfield, Minnesota, USA, Official Programme Includes a screening of bridges 105D, 106, 107 

  Pell, Matthew (Other)

• Surburbinale International Film Festival 2018 Programme 

  Pell, Matthew (Other)

• Bridges 105D, 106, 107 

  Pell, Matthew (Video)

• S'écrire pour mieux mourir. Les Souvenirs de l’hermaphrodite Herculine Barbines" in Sexes, genres, sexualités. Que disent les manuscrits? 

  Krauthaker, Marion (Book chapter)

  Les questions de genre, de sexes et de sexualités, envisagés dans leur pluralité, constituent un domaine majeur de l'expérience humaine et un vaste champ de recherche qui concerne toutes les pratiques, tant sociales que ...

• HOURGLASS: MARK-MAKING IN AND AS PERFORMANCE 

  Doughty, Sally (Book chapter)

  In 2015, the author was commissioned by Dance4 to make an improvised dance performance, titled Hourglass, in response to artefacts from Robert Wilson’s seminal opera Einstein on the Beach (1976) exhibited at Backlit Gallery, ...

• In Bed with Mae West: Movie Magazine Revelations of the Boudoir as Creative, Training and Central Scenic Space 

  Clarke, Alissa (Book chapter)

  Whether suggestively reclining on a Leda-inspired golden swan bed in her self-penned hit film, She Done Him Wrong (1933) or carried aloft on a decadent chaise longue by loin cloth clad muscle men in her Las Vegas shows ...

• Africanist choreography as cultural citizenship: Thomas ‘Talawa’ Prestø’s philosophy of Africana dance. 

  Adewole, Funmi (Book chapter)

  This essay addresses how Africanist choreography operates as a practice of cultural citizenship, focussing on the work of Thomas ‘Talawa’ Prestø as a leading figure in shaping the cultural sphere for choreography based on ...

• Elroy Josephs and the hidden history of Black British Dance 

  Burt, Ramsay, 1953- (Book chapter)

  This chapter gives a brief overview of the career of the black British dance artist and teacher Elroy Josephs and reflects on the reasons for his relative obscurity. Josephs danced with Les Ballets Nègres in 1952. From the ...

• A Study in Solo: Steve Paxton's Goldberg Variations 

  Burt, Ramsay, 1953- (Book chapter)

  Steve Paxton's Goldberg Variations, which he performed nearly 200 times between 1986 and 1992, fits uneasily into accounts of recent dance history because it was an improvisation. This essay discusses the problems of ...

• The Ethics of Participation and Participation Gone Wrong 

  Jordan, Kelly (Article)

  This article examines the way that ethics underpin and affect audience participation in contemporary theatre, illustrated in the performance practice of British-German ensemble Gob Squad. It looks at how a proliferation ...

• Please Do Touch 

  Doughty, Sally; Kendall, Lisa; Krische, Rachel (Other)

  Collaborating on a research project entitled 'Body of Knowledge', dance artists and academics Sally Doughty, Lisa Kendall and Rachel Krische explore how the dancer’s body can be considered as a living, corporeal archive. ...

• Slapstick and Comic Performance 

  Peacock, Louise (Book)

• Battles, Blows and Blood: pleasure and terror in the performance of clown violence 

  Peacock, Louise (Article)

  This article will explore the performative structures of comic violence enacted by, and on, clown bodies, drawing on filmic examples such as Chaplin’s The Kid (1920) and The Circus (1928), Fellini’s The Clowns (1970) and ...

• Connect: Katowice - London 

  Roberts, Alex; Smirnova, Oxana; Lewandowski, Roman; Mendrek, Pawel; Franclemont, Kelise; Housed Collective; Connect: Katowice - London Artists Collective (Other)

  Arts Council England & British Council funded, British-Polish exchange, collaboration and displays.

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