GENERAL EDITOR
Richard Gough is a co-founder and the General Editor of Performance Research, Professor of Music and Performance at University of South Wales, Cardiff, UK, and Artistic Director of the Centre for Performance Research (CPR). He has produced and organized numerous conferences, workshops, festivals and tours of theatre and dance companies across the past forty-five years and he has directed theatre productions, curated events and lectured in the Americas, Africa, Asia and Australasia and throughout Europe. His own artistic-led research explores the interface between food, cookery and performance.
ISSUE EDITORS
Pil Hansen is Associate Professor at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada; President of Performance Studies international (PSi); Editor of Expanded Dramaturgy (Routledge book series); co-founder of Vertical City Performance; and a dance/devising dramaturg. Hansen has dramaturged more than thirty works and her interdisciplinary research on dramaturgy and performing arts psychology is widely published.
A former professional dancer, Freya Vass is an interdisciplinary Lecturer at the University of Kent and a freelance dance dramaturg. She has collaborated with choreographers William Forsythe and David Dawson, among others, and publishes in the areas of cognitive dance studies, dance/theatre dramaturgy, performativity, devising and arts-sciences interdisciplinarity.
CONTRIBUTORS
Eduardo Abrantes is a sound artist and artistic researcher. His practice includes performative strategies, site-specificity and collaborative compositional processes. He lectures in Performance Design and Art and Technology in the departments of Communication and Arts (IKH) and People and Technology (IMT), at Roskilde University, Denmark.
Peter M. Boenisch is Professor of Dramaturgy at Aarhus University (AU), Denmark. His research areas are theatre direction, dramaturgy and the intersections of theatre and politics, as they become manifest in aspects such as spectatorship, the institutional conditions of theatre production and transcultural performance in a globalized Europe. At AU, he leads the research group Paradigms of Dramaturgy: Arts, institutions and the social.
Tomasz Ciesielski is a choreographer, performer and dance researcher and a PhD candidate at the University of Łódź, Poland. He works at the interface between art and science, combining choreographic strategies with methods drawn from cognitive sciences and cultural studies. He is the creator of internationally presented performances: Sense-action; Dance, My love; Karaoke; Odyssey and other. From 2011 to 2016 Ciesielski was a dancer at Granhøj Dans, Aarhus, Denmark.
Catherine Deans is an interdisciplinary researcher, clinician and teacher seeking to better understand a sense of agency from an interpersonal, embodied perspective. Her work spans the fields of developmental psychology, cognitive science, philosophy of mind and clinical psychology. She is a Lecturer in Psychology and Counselling at the University of Tasmania, Australia, and a practicing Clinical Psychologist. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3267-9594
Natalia Esling is a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Theatre and Film at the University of British Columbia, Canada. Her work focuses on artistic research, one-to-one and participatory performance and empirical audience research methodology. She is published in Performance Research, Canadian Theatre Review and Body, Space & Technology.
Paul Geary is a Lecturer in Drama at the University of East Anglia. His research focuses on the senses, performance and Performance Philosophy (particularly in engaging with the work of Martin Heidegger). He is the author of Experimental Dining: Performance, experience and ideology in contemporary creative restaurants (2021, Intellect).
Danielle Goldman is Associate Professor of Critical Dance Studies at The New School, New York, United States. She is the author of I Want to be Ready: Improvised dance as a practice of freedom (2010). She has published articles in Dance Research, Dance Research Journal, Etcetera, Movement Research Performance Journal, TDR and Women & Performance. She has performed in the work of Sarah Michelson, DD Dorvillier, Anna Sperber, and Beth Gill.
Olga Krasa-Ryabets is an artist and researcher based in Prague, Czech Republic. She holds a Theatre Specialist BA with Honours (University of Toronto, Canada), an MA in Alternative Theatre Directing and Puppetry (Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, Czech Republic) and a PhD in Theatre Studies from the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Deni (Denise) Li (she/they) is a writer, performancemaker and PhD student in Drama at the University of California, Irvine. Deni is interested in consciousnessexpanding (psychedelic) performance, writing and digital culture that explores psycho-spiritual healing and queer/ feminist/trans* knowledge-making through practices of cultivating perception, intuition and imagination. Deni holds an MFA in Writing from the California Institute of the Arts.
Jaime Meier is an interdisciplinary artist and museum professional whose work centres on accessibility and sensory experiences. She holds a masters in Museum Studies from the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada and is working in the museum field throughout Western Canada.
Sarah Pini is Assistant Professor of Dance and Performance at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU). Her research addresses notions of presence, embodiment and agency in different performance practices and cultural contexts. Her work has been published in The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Ballet, Frontiers in Psychology and Journal of Embodied Research, Collaborative Embodied Performance: Ecologies of Skill (Bloomsbury, 2022), among others. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3346-9564
Ágatha Silvia Nogueira e Oliveira is a Brazilian dancer and professor who holds a PhD in Performance as Public Practice from the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Texas at Austin (United States) where she also holds an MA in Arts from the African and African Diaspora Studies Department. Current Affiliation: Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Department of Corporeal Arts (RJ, Brazil).
Magdalena Szmytke is a cognitive scientist engaged in research using modern technologies and neuroimaging techniques. She gained research experience at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland, and Cardiff University, Wales and is currently a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw, Poland. She is interested in studying the relationship between motor development and cognitive processes taking place in the brain.
Nebojša Tabački is a freelance scenographer working in the theatre, film and television industry. His scholarly interests focus on the impact of technology on scenography and theatre architecture in and beyond the theatre. His key publications include the books Kinetic Stages (Transcript, 2014) and Consuming Scenography (Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2020).
Corrie Tan is a President’s Graduate Fellow in Theatre and Performance Studies on the joint PhD between King’s College London and the National University of Singapore. Her practice and research knits together care ethics, collaborative practices and new articulations of performance criticism in Southeast Asia. She is resident critic with the Southeast Asian arts platform ArtsEquator and has written about performance for The Guardian, Exeunt Magazine and The Straits Times.
Rennie Tang is Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at California Polytechnic State University Pomona where she coordinates and teaches the Design Foundations curriculum. Her research interests include intergenerational landscapes and kinaesthetic engagement and sensory-driven design. Projects are often fuelled by transdisciplinary collaborations with visual artists, choreographers, sound artists and healthcare researchers. Her work draws from her background in architecture, urban design, landscape architecture and dance.
Susanne Thurow is a Post-Doctoral Fellow and Deputy Director at the University of New South Wales’s iCinema Centre. Her interdisciplinary research encompasses Performance Studies and Digital Media. She holds a PhD from Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (Germany). Her latest book is Performing Indigenous Identities on the Contemporary Australian Stage (Routledge, 2020).
Celia Vara is a Psychologist, Professor and Artist. She holds a PhD in Communication (2019) from Concordia University (Quebec, Canada). She has participated in research projects on feminism and art in Europe, Canada and the Caribbean. Her research interests include kinaesthetic experience, corporeal agency and experimental research-creation from a feminist perspective. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3843-0589, https://feministmediastudio.ca/vara-celia/
Philip Watkinson is a Teaching Associate in Drama at the University of Nottingham, UK. His current research examines contemporary performance and the politics of abstraction in neoliberal capitalism. His work has been published in Theatre Journal, Contemporary Theatre Review and Theatre Research International.
Piotr Woycicki is a Lecturer in Theatre and New Media at Aberystwyth University, Wales. His research interests concern the intersections between political and aesthetic theory and contemporary intermedial performance practice. He is the author of Post-cinematic Theatre and Performance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) and has published in various academic journals. His practice-asresearch encompasses music composition and digital scenography design.