Dance and Embodied Practice

Nicola Conibere is a choreographer and scholar. Her recent work Carareretetatakakekerers was shown at Sadler’s Wells Theatre in 2021. She makes works for stages and art galleries and has presented at venues including Hayward Gallery, Royal Academy of Arts, Tramway, Dance House Helsinki, International Biennial of Sydney. She joined Roehampton as a Senior Lecturer in Dance in 2018. She has multiple publications. She is programme leader for the MFA Choreography and is Programme Convenor for the BA & BFA in Dance.

She previously led the MRes Choreography and Performance. Nicola teaches at undergraduate & postgraduate levels and supervises PhDs, with particular expertise in Practice-as-Research projects. Her choreographic projects embed accessibility and her work explores the politics of bodies, performance and potentials of the choreographic.

She has organised multiple research seminars and artist workshops at Roehampton and works in partnerships with dance organisations, recently including Independent Dance, Dance Art Foundation and Sadler’s Wells. She is an AHRC Peer Reviewer and Fellow of the HEA. She gained her PhD from Trinity Laban in 2014 and previously worked at institutions including Coventry University and Trinity Laban.

Dr. Chi-Fang Chao specialises in dance anthropology and has studied dance cultures in several Asian regions, such as Taiwan and Okinawa, and their diaspora communities. Her major research interests include ritual, dance ethnography and indigenous dance theatre in the post-colonial era.

Hanna Gillgren (SE) is choreographer and curator for H2DANCE and Fest en Fest an artist-run festival for expanded choreography for UK and Nordic-based choreographers. Hanna has choreographed and taught to a variety of ages and abilities both in a professional and academic context since 1998.

Together with choreographer Heidi Rustgaard (NO) she formed H2DANCE in 2000, and has since made trans-disciplinary works, working primarily between Norway, Sweden and the UK.

She was associate artist at the Place London 2001/02.

Hanna has an ongoing fascination with meetings of differences, exploring ways in which we can negotiate hierarchy, conformity, power and manipulation. Her work is often informed by workshops and conversations with people of different ages and backgrounds, and these encounters influence and inform the ideas and aesthetics of the work.

Hanna has delivered commissions for Norrdans SE, Victoria and Albert Museum for BIGDance London, Womens Playright Trust and Jerwood Foundation, Guardians of Doubt and Dance4.

She has taken part in research projects and workshops with among others Jonathan Burrows, Guy Dartnell, Meg Stuart, Colin Poole, Linn Snelling and Guy Cools.

Prizes

2013: ThePlacePrize for Dance – audience vote in the finals

2005: IMZ Dance on Screen Award - GOLD

Heike Salzer is a German dancer and artist-scholar. She fluidly moves between performance, choreography, and site specific screendance. In 2014 she founded WECreate Productions together with Ana Baer Carrilllo (US/MX) jointly directing award winning screendances, installations and multi-media performances that have been invited to film festivals, venues, and higher education contexts, in Asia, Europe, Middle East, and the Americas. As Secretary of the Board of Directors for the Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema, she serves on the Curation Panel and Programming and Events Team.

She has been invited internationally for arts residencies, masterclasses and short courses and taught in Higher Education in the Netherlands, Iceland, Malta, United States, Mexico and the United Kingdom. Currently she is a Senior Lecturer in Dance Practices at Roehampton, where she convenes the MFA Dance and Embodied Practice, teaches on UG and PG degrees, and supervises PhD rtistic research projects. In her past she has migrated to several countries and calls many places her home. Since 2018 she lives in the United Kingdom and Malta.

Heike graduated as a certified Anna Herrmann Gymnastic teacher in Germany, trained at ArtEZ-Dance Academy (NL) and holds a MA Choreography from the University of Leeds (GB) / Fontys Dance Academy (NL). She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and was awarded a PhD by Completed Work by the University of Roehampton (UK).

Lalitaraja (Joachim Chandler MA) is a dance artist and educator based in the dance department at Roehampton University where he teaches choreography, contact improvisation and improvisation. As a performer he has worked with Scottish Ballet, Michael Clark, Adventures in Motion Pictures, Laurie Booth, Yolande Snaith and Charles Linehan among others. He has presented more than 25 choreographic works and continues to choreograph and perform. His research interests focus on contemplative practices, improvisation and choreography. His meditation journey began to develop during his twenties eventually teaching meditation and Buddhism regularly. The name Lalitaraja was given on ordination into the Triratna Buddhist Order 1998.

Alexandra graduated with a Ph.D. from Cambridge University and has lectured at universities both in the UK and internationally. She has also worked in academic publishing and at a British dance conservatoire, the Northern School of Contemporary Dance, having herself trained professionally at the School of the Hamburg Ballet. She is the author of numerous academic articles and three books: Performing Femininity: Dance and Literature in German Modernism (2009), the anthology Dance and Politics (2011), and most recently Dancing Europe: Identities, Languages, Institutions (2022). She has presented her research as a guest speaker worldwide, including among others in Beijing, Oxford and Philadelphia. Alexandra serves as Reviews Editor for Dance Research and on the board of the Society for Dance Research. She has been awarded several prestigious prizes and fellowships, including the Gertrude Lippincott Award, Marlis Thiersch Prize, a Harry Ransom Fellowship and a Visiting Professorship at Grenoble University.

Sara is an award winning researcher and teacher. She won the BUPA Foundation Prize in 2011 for her pioneering work in dance and Parkinson’s. In 2014 she was a Finalist in the National Public Engagement Awards for her work engaging the general public in her Parkinson’s and dance research. She is sought after globally as a speaker in community dance and published the monograph Dancing with Parkinson’s in 2019. Sara also won a prestigious National Teaching Fellowship in 2014 for excellence in learning and teaching. Sara is currently working with EU dance organisations and dance artists to augment professional development through soft skills. She was one of the lead authors of the open access Soft Skills in Dance: A Guidebook to Enhance your Practice, funded by Erasmus+. She is passionate about socially engaged dance and about acknowledging the richness of dancing for non-professionals.

https://www.intellectbooks.com/dancing-with-parkinsons http://empowering2.communicatingdance.eu/guidebook/en/