Emily Orley

 

Job Title: Lecturer Qualifications: PhD Telephone: +44 (0)20 8392 8137 Email Address: E.Orley@roehampton.ac.uk

Emily Orley is a lecturer in Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies. She has a BA in Modern and Medieval Languages from Cambridge University, an MA in Scenography from the Wimbledon School of Art and has also trained at the École Jacques Lecoq in Paris.

Her teaching and research focus on scenography, performance and installation art and theories of place.
She has recently completed her PhD at Roehampton, developing a method of encountering place and place-specific work. She is also a practising artist, and often works in collaboration with Elinor Brass and Katja Hilevaara.

Teaching

Emily convenes the programme's modules in Design and Scenography and Thinking Through Theatre.
Other teaching includes Engaging Performance and Performance and Live Art.

Performance and installation work

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.

Ooff by Rotozaza (2005) Guest performer. Camden People’s Theatre. Part of the Sprint Festival.

Nomadics (2005) A large-scale site-specific installation at Trinity Buoy Wharf, London. Created in collaboration with the Nomadics group.

The Summer Book project (2005) Adapted Tove Jansson’s novel for the stage, in collaboration with theatre artists Katja Hilevaara and Rajni Shah. A six month project funded by the South East Arts Council.

Temenos (2004) An immersive installation at the Camden People’s Theatre, London. (Solo show)

Phantasmagoria (2004) A small performance installation created in the basement of the Hayward Gallery as part of their youth-outreach programme. Created as part of Nomadic Collaborations.

Napoleon in Exile (2003) Set design for the show written and directed by Chris Goode, performed at the Edinburgh Festival at the Traverse theatre.

Huis Clos (2003) Sound design. Directed by Ben Gove, performed at the Camden People’s Theatre.

Past the Line, Between the Land (2003) Set design. Show devised by Chris Goode and Signal to Noise, performed at the Camden People’s Theatre. Part of the Sprint festival.

The Awkward Position (2003) Set and lighting design. Performance installation at The Place, directed by Rajni Shah. (www.rajnishah.com/the-awkward-position)

The Big Room (2002) Performance installation at the Camden People’s Theatre, directed by Chris Goode.

The Beast Within (2002) Immersive installation and standing exhibition. Final MA show, Wimbledon School of Art.

Mamacona (2002) Set and costume design. Solo show written and performed by Lorena Guevara, Madrid. (www.medea73.com)

Passion, Revenge and Desire (2001) Design, creation and performance. Performance installation at the Wimbledon School of Art Theatre.

Imaginary Prisons (2001) Design, creation and performance. A show by the Angel Exit Theatre Company, performed in Paris and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Nominated for a Fringe First Award.

Conference papers and workshops

‘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

Undergraduate courses taught at Roehampton:

Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies