Dr Anna Pakes

 

Job Title: Senior Lecturer Qualifications: MA(Oxon), PhD Telephone: +44 (0)20 8392 3429 Email Address: A.Pakes@roehampton.ac.uk

Anna Pakes joined Roehampton in January 2003. Her teaching and research specialism is philosophy and aesthetics in relation to dance. She currently teaches Philosophy & Aesthetics on the BA Dance Studies and Dance in Philosophical Perspective on the MA Dance Studies, as well as supervising PhD research.

She trained in contemporary dance at the Centre National de Danse Contemporaine in Angers, France, and gained a degree in English and French at Balliol College, Oxford University. She completed her doctorate in 2001 at Laban, where she also taught for a number of years and led the MA Dance Studies programme from 1997-2000.

Anna's PhD examines the impact of public funding on contemporary dance in Britain and France, exploring how the political and economic environment shapes choreographic approach and spectator response. The thesis also includes an extended philosophical discussion of method and methodological issues in dance studies generally.

Current research interests are mainly in the field of philosophy and aesthetics and include: the implications for dance of the mind/body problem; dance, intentionality and the philosophy of action; the epistemology of dance practice as research; the ontology of the dance work. She also maintains research interests in French contemporary dance, dance politics and funding, and contemporary dance spectatorship. Anna has presented at both national and international conferences and authored a number of articles already in print or forthcoming.

Publications

(2009) Knowing through dance-making: Choreography, practical knowledge and practice-as-research, Jo Butterworth & Liesbeth Wildschut eds. Contemporary Choreography: A Critical Reader, 10-22.

(2006) Dance's Mind-Body Problem, Dance Research, 24:2, 87-104.

(2004) Art as Action or Art as Object? The Embodiment of Knowledge in Practice as Research, Working Papers in Art & Design (online journal at http://www.herts.ac.uk/artdes1/research/papers/wpades/vol3/apabs.html), 3.

(2004) Choreographing the Site, Excavating the Dance: Rosemary Butcher and the Convergence of Archaeology with Dance Performance, http://humanitieslab.stanford.edu/ArchaeologyPerformance/19.

(2004) Stepping through the Looking Glass? The Aesthetics and Politics of Daniel Larrieu's Mobile ou le Miroir du Chateau, Dance Research, 22:1, 22-44.

(2003) Original Embodied Knowledge: The Epistemology of the New in Dance Practice as Research, Research in Dance Education, 4:2, 127-149.

Membership of professional bodies

Editorial Board Member for the journal Research in Dance Education

Member British Society for Aesthetics and American Society for Aesthetics

Member British Society for Phenomenology

Member of the Society for Dance Research

Undergraduate courses taught at Roehampton:

Dance Studies

Postgraduate courses taught at Roehampton:

Dance Studies
Dance

Other courses taught at Roehampton: