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A dancer with Kinetic Energy (Sydney), on the commercial dance circuit in Sydney, Japan and South East Asia, and with Human Veins Dance Theatre (Canberra), I traded a performance career for academic study in the mid 1990s, majoring in History and Women's Studies. My PhD (History Department at the University of Sydney) concentrated on issues of national representation, aesthetic and political influence, and sexual politics in Australian dance. After graduation I worked with the Onextra dance company, a producing unit for independent dance in Sydney, as Executive Producer with responsibility for the artistic and financial direction of the company over 6 years. I was the inaugural Chair of the Board of Directors of Critical Path (Sydney’s choreographic research and development centre) and a peer adviser with the Dance Fund of the Australia Council for the Arts. Since 2008 I have been a full time member of academic staff at the now Discipline of Theatre & Performance Studies, lecturing in performance theory and embodiment, and publishing on dance related topics.
Theatre and Performance Studies, School of Art, Communication and English (SACE)
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The opportunity ID for this research opportunity is 3079