Marisa Zanotti, BA

Senior Lecturer in Dance

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

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

Specialisms: practice as research in dance and performance, self as creative source, documentation and ethnography, Jungian and post-Jungian approaches to working with creative practice, Authentic Movement and other somatic practices

Andrea Davidson BA, MA, DEA, PhD

Senior Lecturer in Dance

Core Modules: 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-Brown BA, MA, PhD

Senior Lecturer in Dance

Core Modules: Reflective Practice, 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.

Jill Hayes MA PGCE MSc., Cert. Counselling, Cert. Creative Arts Therapies, MA, PhD

Senior Lecturer in Dance, MA Co-ordinator

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.

TECHNIQUE TUTORS

Nanette Kincaid

Contemporary Technique
Nanette Kincaid is a professional dancer who has performed with many companies and artists including Arc Dance Company, Retina, Bock and Vincenzi and Matthew Bourne’s Adventures in Motion Pictures. Trained at Laban, the London School of Contemporary Dance and the State University of New York (SUNY) at Purchase, she is an experienced teacher. She has taught for many colleges, companies and organisations including London Contemporary Dance School, Laban, Adventures in Motion Pictures, Royal Opera House, Dance Theatre of Ireland, Coisceim, The Place, Association of Professional Dancers in Ireland, Dance Northern Ireland and many others.

Cai Tomos, BA, Contemporary Technique and Choreography

Cai Tomos studied dance at Coventry University.  He gained an honours degree (2:1) and subsequently joined Earthfall Physical Theatre as a performer.  Cai has worked as a choreographer/assistant director with Earthfall physical theatre on various projects from 2001 to 2008.  During this time he was also the Dance co-ordinator for the Full Time Preliminary Dance training Course at Rubicon Dance in Cardiff.    Cai is co founder of the Uru-Wales Project, a regular collaborative project with Director Martin Inthamossou that takes place in Montevideo, South America.  He has just completed his Diploma in Therapeutic application of the Arts at the Institute for Arts and Therapy in education.

Fiona Wallis

Ballet
Fiona Wallis trained at Elmhurst Ballet School and then at the Rambert School where she was one of the founder members of a student dance group, which toured the UK in her final year. She was awarded her BA (Hons) in Dance in Society from the University of Surrey in 1994 and became a registered teacher of the Royal Academy of Dance in 1993. Since graduating from Surrey she has taught ballet and contemporary dance as a freelance teacher and more recently, was Head of Performing Arts at Peter Symonds College in Hampshire. She has also worked for the Labanotation Institute as editor of their magazine.

Caroline Waters, Improvisation

Caroline is an International Dance/Theatre Practitioner dedicated to the craft of Improvisation in Performance and the study of Contact Improvisation.  Mainly drawing from C I and New Dance practices, Caroline teaches, performs and directs in various situations ranging from the performic to the therapeutic, working with both professionals and non-professionals.  The work often focuses on collaboration and working with other Art forms, which includes experience of working with a range of non-theatre spaces as a focus for performance.

Caroline has a passion for festival organisation and has been respnsible for many International Improvisation events, including 4 European C I Teachers Exchanges in the UK, Hungary and Russia, as well as being an Artistic Director of Contact Moscow for the past 5 years.  She has performed at many International Improvisation Festivals across Europe and America and has recently completed 2 tours of Siberia.  Amongst all the travelling Caroline was an Associate Lecturer at Dartington College of Arts UK for 11 years.  Most recently has been an inteisive teacher at the Israeli Contact Festival 2009.  Caroline continues to develop her own body of work internationally as a freelance improviser in performance, as a dancer, teacher/director and musician.