Dr Stacey Prickett

 

Job Title: Principal Lecturer Qualifications: BA (cum laude), MA, PhD Telephone: +44 (0)20 8392 3371 Email Address: S.Prickett@roehampton.ac.uk

Stacey Prickett trained in dance in California and London, performing ballet and contemporary works prior to commencing her post-graduate studies.  She graduated from the University of California Riverside with a BA in Dance (cum laude) and was awarded an MA and a PhD in Dance Studies from the Laban Centre for Movement and Dance in 1987 and 1992, respectively.  Her MA and PhD research examined the left wing dance movement in the United States through historical and sociological perspectives.   Issues of identity in dance and the art form's relation to larger society are areas underpinning her post-doctoral research. Recent research extends to the body in contemporary society and South Asian dance in Britain.  Cross-cultural aspects of the dancing body were further explored in fieldwork in India (2003) and in projects examining South Asian Dance in Britain, including training in kathak dance with Sushma Mehta.

Stacey has published on a range of topics, in books and professional and academic journals.  Aspects of her writing include dance criticism, published in Pulse, Dance Theatre Journal and Dance Chronicle.  'Aerobic Dance and the City:  Individual and Social Spaces', in Dance in the City, Helen Thomas, ed. (London:  Macmillan, 1997), investigates trends in aerobic dance and the body found in non-dance spaces.  Publications stemming from her doctoral work include 'The People:  Issues of Identity Within the Revolutionary Dance' in "Of, By and For the People:  Dancing on the Left in the 1930s", Studies in Dance History, Vol. V, No. 1, Spring, 1994.  Additional articles on historical and sociological perspectives of dance are found in Dance Chronicle, 'San Francisco Innovators and Iconoclasts' (July, 2007) and 'Guru or Teacher? Shishya or Student?' in South Asia Research (2007). Articles arising from doctoral research include Dance Research, 'From Workers' Dance to New Dance? (Spring 1989), and 'Dance and the Workers' Struggle' (Spring, 1990).  Contributions to reference publications include entries on Pearl Primus in the International Dictionary of Modern Dance (Detroit, Michigan: St. James Press, 1998) and entries on Douglas Dunn and Lar Lubovitch in Fifty Contemporary Choreographers, Martha Bremser, ed. (London: Routledge, 1999).  Other contributions include her work as research assistant to Dr. Helen Thomas for an Equity commissioned study in 1991, Equal Opportunities in the Mechanical Media and Dr. Peter Brinson's 1991 study for the Council for Dance Education and Training, Into the 1990s.

She regularly contributes to conferences in North America and Europe and has published papers in the Society of Dance History Scholars and the Congress on Research in Dance conference proceedings.  Stacey was a presenter at the Kathak at the Crossroads International Festival and Symposium in San Francisco in 2006 and is participating in the April 2008 conference at the Centre National de la Danse in France. She is currently working on a book on dance and politics, with research funding support from the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Professional affiliations include former President of the Dance Critics Association, membership on the Isadora Duncan Dance Awards Committee, San Francisco, California, and a member of the Executive Committee of the British Society for Dance Research.

She ws a researcher in the AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council) Centre for Cross-Cultural Music and Dance Performance, a collaboration between SOAS (School of Oriental and Asian Studies, London University), UniS (University of Surrey Guildford) and Roehampton.

Stacey's main teaching areas include dance appreciation and history, multi-disciplinary approaches to dance studies and dance criticism. She teaches on the MA Dance Cluster and is Director of Studies/Supervisor of PhD candidates. She is currently Convener of the BA Dance Studies Programme.  

Publications

(2007) [b]'Guru or Teacher? Shishya or Student? Pedagogic Shifts in South Asian Dance Training in India and Britain'[b], South Asia Research, 27:1, 25-41.

(2007) 'San Francisco Innovators and Iconoclasts: Dance and Politics in the Left Coast City', [u]Dance Chronicle[u], 30, no. 2, 237-290.

(2004) 'Techniques and Institutions: South Asian Dance in Britain', Dance Research, 22:1, 1-21.

(2003) Book Review: Dance on Screen, Dance Research, 21:1, 61-62.

(2003) Degrees of Change, Pulse, 4, 9-11.

(2003) Profile: Lloyd Newson, Dance Theatre Journal, 19:1, 27-31.

(2003) Review, National Resource Centre for Dance CD Rom, Dance Research, 21:1, 63-64.

(2002) Book reviews of The Work of Dance, Waltzing in the Dark, Dance, Dance Theatre Journal, 18:3, 44-45.

(2002) Challenging Images: DV8 Physical Theatre, Anglo Files, Journal of English Teaching (Danish Association of English Teachers), 102, 43-47.

Andree Grau (2002) South Asian Aesthetics Unwrapped, London: Akademi, 12.

Prickett, S. (1994) 'The People: Issues of Identity Within the Revolutionary Dance', in "Of, By and For the People: Dancing on the Left in the 1930s", Studies in Dance History, Vol. V, No. 1, Spring.

Undergraduate courses taught at Roehampton:

Dance Studies

Postgraduate courses taught at Roehampton:

Dance Studies
Dance: Ballet Studies
Dance