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Senior Lecturer

Telephone : +44 (0)20 8392 8137
Email : E.Orley@roehampton.ac.uk
Department : Drama, Theatre and Performance
Office location : Jubilee 106b

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Qualifications

PhD

About

Emily Orley is a Senior Lecturer in Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies. As a practitioner-researcher, her work involves and reflects on installation and live art, scenography and place-writing . She has degrees from Cambridge University, University of Roehampton and the Wimbledon School of Art and also trained at the École Jacques Lecoq in Paris.

Recent Performance and installation work

An Unravelling (2010) A performance installation with words and wool in collaboration with Ella Finer. Part of the second I’m With You, at MKII, London. A Patina of Antique Filth (2009) A site-specific immersive installation with sound. Part of the Shunt Lounge, London Bridge. In collaboration with Elinor Brass and Tim Dutton

Ivory Towers (2009) A performance installation involving the creation of a table-top landscape with cutlery. Part of You and Your Work #6, Bristol. In collaboration with Katja Hilevaara

Opiate (2008) A performance installation curated by Switch Theatre as part of My Site/In Space #4. In collaboration with Katja Hilevaara. (http://www.switchperformance.co.uk/mysite)

National Service/Esperanto (2008) A performance installation with the Liebniz collective and P.A. Skantze Performed at PSI#14 in Copenhagen and the Chelsea Theatre in London.

Narcissus (2008) A performance installation with mirrors, torches and a hammer at the Shunt Lounge, London. In collaboration with Katja Hilevaara. Part of the annual Roehampton postgraduate Lab Night, co-curated with Charlie Fox.

Mediatised Sites Performance Festival, Dance City, Newcastle Upon Tyne (2008) An online interdisciplinary and international project (http://mediatisedsites.net)

Hampstead Road (2008) A site-specific installation at the Camden People’s Theatre, London. Created in collaboration with artist Elinor Brass.

Two Journeys Ending in One Place (2008) A short film made in collaboration with artist Elinor Brass and film-maker Abi Priddle documenting two journeys across London ending at Warren Street tube station.

Lusikka (2007) A site-specific performance installation with teaspoons. Part of the Emergency platform for live art at Manchester's Green Room. In collaboration with Katja Hilevaara.

Teippi (2007) A site-specific performance installation with electrical tape at the Shunt Lounge, London. In collaboration with Katja Hilevaara.

States of Ignorance (2007) Installation and photographs at Execution, Brick Lane, London. In collaboration with Elinor Brass.

Traces of Mr Shillibeer (2007) Photographs taken in and inspired by the Pleasance Theatre Islington. In collaboration with Elinor Brass.

The Way To Be Rich according to the Practice of the Great Audley (2007) A small exhibition of photographs taken in, and inspired by, the Mayfair Library. In collaboration with Elinor Brass.

Found Lunatic by Inquisition (2006) A site-specific installation at the Hoxton Distillery, London. Created in collaboration with artist Elinor Brass.

Membership of Professional Bodies

Higher Education Academy; TaPRA (Theatre & Performance Research Association); PSi (Performance Studies International)

Teaching Interests

Emily convenes the programme's modules in Design and Scenography, Performance and Live Art and Thinking Through Theatre. Other teaching includes Engaging Performance and Community Drama. This year she will also be teaching on the new Performance and Creative Research MA.

Publications

(2009) Getting at and into place: writing as practice and research, Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, 2:2.
(2010) Performing place, recalling space: a site-specific installation/constellation in London, Body, Space & Technology Journal, 9.2.
‘Into the page’. A performance paper delivered at -writing, a one-day Architecture & seminar at the Bartlett School of Architecture, organised by Professor Jane Rendell.
‘Places remember events: towards an ethics of encounter’. Paper delivered at Liminal Landscapes, an interdisciplinary two day symposium at Liverpool John Moores University.
‘The impact of displacement: an articulation of belonging’. Paper delivered at Impact of Diasporas, an interdisciplinary day-long symposium at Roehampton University, October 2009 
‘The Question of Practice as Research: Writing On and Writing As Scenography’. Paper delivered to the Scenography working group at TaPRA, Plymouth University, & a 1 hour practical workshop: ‘Designing Through the Body: Movement, Drawing, Writing According to Jacques Lecoq’, September 2009
'Hampstead Road: an art installation documenting the history of a site’. Performative paper delivered at Sites of Performance: Mapping/Theatre/History, a three day conference at Nottingham University, April 2009
‘Articulating Place: Writing and Remembering’. Paper delivered at The Hidden City: Mythogeography, Writing, & Site Specific Performance, a one-day symposium at the University of Plymouth, October 2008
‘Changing states of in between-ness: when space becomes place, and we become responsible.’ Paper delivered at PSi #14, Copenhagen University, INTERREGNUM: In Between States. August 2008
Organised a one-day postgraduate symposium at Roehampton in collaboration with Charlie Fox: Un/Disciplinary States: making and breaking performance in conjunction with the postgraduate Lab Night showing six works-in-progress at the Shunt Vaults, London Bridge. June 2008
‘Site-writing: a workshop’. Part of a two day practice-based research symposium: Touching Time: Bodies/Writing/Histories at the University of Michigan. April 2008
‘An articulation of place: writing and remembering’. Paper delivered at the Centre for Theatre Research in Europe seminar, Roehampton University. March 2008
‘Presence and Memory: the work of Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey’. Paper delivered at the Royal Geographic Society, London for their Annual International Conference: Sustainability and Quality of Life. August 2007
Participated in a day-long symposium at Bologna University to inaugurate a project on advanced research methods in contemporary theatre and performance. An international forum for PhD level students, academics and artists. June 2006.
‘Wondering while wandering inside spaces: approaching a poetics of encounter’. Paper delivered at Performance and Reception, a conference at Manchester University, November 2006 and at the Researching Cultural Spaces conference organised by Royal Holloway and Queen Mary Universities, June 2006 (Parts of this paper have been cited in Sacred Theatre, ed. Ralph Yarrow (Bristol: Intellect Books, 2007)
‘Wondering while wandering: towards a method of encounter’. Paper delivered at the London Theatre Seminar, November 2005
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