Director: Mark Hunter
Programme Administrator: Maya Davis
Academic Staff:
Position: Director IPAD
Teacher/practitioner specialising in public and community negotiated projects, Mark’s areas of research/practice include performance pedagogy, process-based work and cross-disciplinary theatre/performance/ live art.
Email: m.hunter@uel.ac.uk
Position: Senior Lecturer in Dance
Jyoti Argade is a practitioner, researcher and producer of dance. She engages dance both as a method and site of study in her approach to critical dance scholarship and performance. Her research explores the global circulation of “modern” and “classical” Indian dance styles across India, the United States, and Britain. Before pursuing scholarship, she was a professional performer of the Indian dance tradition of bharata natyam, performing and teaching in theatres, festivals, universities, and museums including Duke University, Northwestern University, The Kitchen in New York, The Asia Society and The Brooklyn Museum. In 2009, on a United States Fulbright Fellowship to India, she worked with blind bharata natyam dancers in Bangalore and conducted a study on how classical Indian dance styles are being mobilised to address public health concerns and cultures of disability. In November of 2010, Jyoti produced a British Council-sponsored tour with the London-based Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company, launching a three-year choreographic collaboration between new media artists in London and India’s metropolitan cities. Jyoti is now developing a monograph on the comparative developments of “contemporary” dance across India and the diaspora, contextualising her analysis through a political economy of India’s economic liberalisation in 1991 and immigration policies in the US and Britain after 1965. Her research has been presented at Harvard University’s Center for Ethnic Studies, the Society for Dance History Scholars, The British Association for South Asian Studies and the the Centre for Experimental Media in Bangalore, India.
Email: j.argade@uel.ac.uk
Position: Senior Lecturer in Theatre Studies
Ananda Breed is a practitioner and theorist of Applied Theatre. She has facilitated workshops for the UN Special Session for Children, UN Third World Water Forum, and the NY City Hall Forum Theatre and Video Initiative. Ananda has conducted research in Rwanda, Congo, and Burundi regarding justice and reconciliation. In addition to theatre in relation to conflict, Ananda has co-directed a participatory theatre project based on domestic violence in Rwanda which was funded by the Ministry of Justice and toured nationally. She has trained theatre practitioners in participatory theatre methodology for Search for Common Ground in Bukavu and Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Ananda is a project member of In Place of War, a three year AHRC funded project researching the use of theatre in conflict zones. Ananda is the programme leader for BA Theatre Studies.
Email: a.breed@uel.ac.uk
Position: Senior Lecturer in Dance
Sarahleigh is a practice-based researcher who is interested in dance and identity politics. She recently completed an AHRC funded practice-based doctoral research project into South African Dance Theatre focusing on the issues of ‘race’, gender, and nation in Apartheid and post-Apartheid South Africa. She has published and presented her work on South African dance internationally, and has both danced and choreographed dance works in South Africa and the United Kingdom. She is currently writing a book on South African Dance Theatre, and working on an anthology on contemporary African dance practices.
Email: s.castelyn@uel.ac.uk
Position: Lecturer in Music
Composer and improviser. She completed her PhD in Composition at City University. Her music has been performed and broadcast in the UK, USA and Japan. She was a finalist in the British Composer Awards 2006. She has collaborated with improvisers such as Hugh Hopper, David Cross, Geoff Leigh, Tatsuya Yoshida and Yoshihide Otomo, and her CDs are released from MOONJUNE.
Email: yumi@uel.ac.uk
Position: Lecturer in Music
Steve Goodman runs the MA Sonic Culture and teaches sound design and philosophies of sound and technology on the Music Culture Programme. He is currently writing a book on military research into acoustic weaponry. Steve also runs the record label Hyperdub, and produces and dj's internationally.
Email: s.goodman@uel.ac.uk
Position: Senior Lecturer in Acting & Directing
Theatre director with a special interest in the development of new theatre writing and new playwrights. Trained at Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and worked extensively as a professional actor. His research interests lie in British Asian Theatre and cultural identity. His book British Asian Theatre – Dramaturgy Process and Performance was published by Palgrave in 2010. Dominic is the Programme Leader for the MA Acting / Theatre Directing.
Email: d.hingorani@uel.ac.uk
Position: Senior Lecturer in Theatre Studies
Eve Katsouraki is a Senior Lecturer in Theatre Studies at the University of East London. Her main research interests concern the intersections between theories of aesthetics, political philosophy, most particularly Alain Badiou, Slavoj Zizek, Chantal Mouffe, and Jacques Rancière, with performance theory. Her doctorate research at the University of Edinburgh and current publications explore issues of early modernist theory in performance in relation to politics and philosophy. Her practice is interdisciplinary and includes writing and directing postdramatic theatre, filmmaking and multimedia performance, with a particular emphasis on performance installation art and interactive practices. She is currently working towards a monograph on the Aesthetics and Politics of Early Modernist Performance. Other research projects and publications include investigating the notion of the sublime in contemporary performance theory, the rethink of ‘failure’ as a radical progressive alternative in political and performative discourse, radical performance and theories of subjectivity, the politics of subversion and experimental performance, sensory poetics and acts of transcendence, and the manifesto as enactments of radicalism and transgression.
Email: e.katsouraki@uel.ac.uk
Position: Reader in Music
Tim Lawrence is a Reader in Cultural Studies and the Programme Leader for the Music Culture: Theory and Production degree at UEL. He is the author of Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture, 1970-79 (Duke University Press, 2003) and Hold On to Your Dreams: Arthur Russell and the Downtown Music Scene, 1973-92 (Duke University Press, 2009). He has contributed articles to numerous academic and non-academic publications and is currently completing a book about New York club and music culture 1980-83 (Duke University Press, forthcoming). He is a founding member of the Centre for Cultural Studies Research and Lucky Cloud Sound System, which hosts parties with David Mancuso (the Loft, New York) four times a year in London. For more information: www.timlawrence.info
Email: t.lawrence@uel.ac.uk
Position: Lecturer in Community Arts Practice
Clare is a visual artist whose work is concerned with the ordinary and unnoticed – looking for beauty in the everyday mundane. She works across a range of media - from drawing and sculpture to artists’ books and live art events, often in the form of walks. Collaborative work with the artists Gail Burton and Serena Korda as walkwalkwalk: an archaeology of the familiar and forgotten uses walking to investigate place and explore urban routines, generating texts, sound, film and live art events.
Email: c.qualmann@uel.ac.uk
Position: Lecturer in Music
Helen played in independent bands in the 1980s, then had a varied musical career that spanned recording chants by fans of Millwall Football Club, running songwriting workshops and writing musicals. Her first book, ‘The Lost Women of Rock Music’, will be published in 2007.
Email: h.l.reddington@uel.ac.uk
Position: Lecturer in Theatre Studies, and Acting
Jorge creates playful theatrical structures that allow for a participatory, immersive and interactive perspective of theatrical events. His professional practice and PhD focus on the unspoken contract between the audience and the actor/performer. He is constantly testing definitions of theatre as site-specific, time-specific and audience-specific, and trying to find out what these ideas mean in a collaborative process of theatre making. Jorge is founder and Artistic Director of Zecora Ura, and has been touring his overnight production HOTEL MEDEA in Brazil and the UK. [www.zecoraura.com / www.medea.tv]
Email: jorge@uel.ac.uk
Position: Lecturer in Community Arts Practice
Luis Carlos Sotelo-Castro (PhD) is a Colombian artist-researcher now based in the United Kingdom. His practice is performance-based. He creates live environments of memory in collaboration with other artists and participants from specific communities and locations. He has done work with and for internally displaced people, Indigenous communities, and elderly people both in Latin America and in the UK.
His (collaborative and solo) work has been featured as part of festivals and events such as Fierce!, The Northampton Music and Arts Festival, The Big Dance, and more recently, on Antony Gormley’s One & Other live sculpture project for London’s Trafalgar Square.
He explores in his research the interconnections between cartography, presentation of self, memory, and performance. He has made recent contributions on this subject to journals such as Performance Research, RiDE: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, and M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture
Email: l.c.sotelo@uel.ac.uk
Position: Lecturer in Music
Jo Thomas is a London based electronic composer and music academic who works with the extremes of the sound spectrum. Her work is published on vinyl,tape cassette and CD by Entracte and NMC recordings. Jo’s music has been critically acclaimed and reviewed for it’s attention to detail and imaginative musical structures. Her research involves digital music composition with a focus on cyber technology and alternative spaces of projection. She has worked with electronic sound since being a teenager composing producing and performing her own works and works of others.
She has a Phd from City University in electro acoustic composition supervised by Denis Smalley and Simon Emmerson. Her teaching spans from Community workshops to Phd Supervision.
Email: j.m.thomas@uel.ac.uk
Position: Lecturer in Dance
Carla is a dancer, educator, and researcher. She teaches on a range of modules at UEL as well as performing with her own dance company.
Email: c.trim-vamben@uel.ac.uk
Position: Visiting Lecturer in Dance
Jeanette Bain-Burnett is a dance artist, facilitator and Director of the Association of Dance of the African Diaspora (ADAD).
Born in London and raised in Jamaica, Jeanette has been involved in the arts since her early childhood - training with a community-based dance company (Praise Academy), which toured internationally to the U.S.A., the Caribbean, South Africa and Australia. She has also toured with Oxford-based physical theatre company Innovista to Russia, Denmark and Ukraine. Jeanette holds a diploma in Performance Studies: Dance from Birkbeck, University of London and an MA Choreography from Middlesex University, with a research focus on UK-based African and Caribbean Dance Practitioners. She is now a Visiting Lecturer at the University of East London on the BA Dance: Urban Practice degree as well as Middlesex on the BA Dance Performance/Studies course.
Position: Visiting Lecturer in Theatre Studies
Dr. Julia Lee Barclay is the Artistic Director of Apocryphal Theatre founded in 2004 from its exploratory lab and recently received a practice as research PhD from University of Northampton, Apocryphal Theatre: practicing philosophies. Originally from NYC where she began working in labs on the ideas that still inform her work, she has lived and worked in London since 2003. Her stage texts and directing have been given awards, published (Plays and Playwrights 2001, Regional Best 2009), produced and written about in journals such as PAJ and Performance Research. She has been commissioned to create work, teach workshops, write articles and guest lecture about her practice internationally.
Her current practice as research uses William James’ Varieties of Religious Experience, a collection of his 1901-2 Gifford Lectures in Edinburgh, as a basis to explore what we find sacred now and how this is experienced and expressed in performance and writing.
Position: Technique Teacher in Dance
Born in Naples, Italy, she studied ballet since the age of 6 with international teachers. In 2001 she won a scholarship from International Arts Events for Mauro Astolfi (Spellbound Dance Company) Modern and Hip-Hop classes at I.A.L.S. Institute in Rome, where she also studied contemporary dance. She has danced for choreographers such as M. Astolfi, C. Felicioni, M. Garofalo, O.Malatiska, D. Natali, M. Mucci. In 2005 she founded her own company Bricolage Dance Movement (BDM), in collaboration with Michela Mucci. In 2008 she moved to London joining NU Tempo Dance Company, Everaldo Pereira, Vocab Dance Company, Alesandra Seutin and Verse Dance Arena.
Selected from UK Young Artists as one of the most talented creative artists in the country, she performed her work, Tied Up, at Dèda in Derby for UKYA01, with Akram Khan in the panel.
Position: Visiting Lecturer in Theatre, Research Assistant CEDAR
Joseph Dunne is an actor and movement teacher. He was awarded an MA in Theatre Practice from Exeter University in 2009 where he trained with Phillip Zarrilli in psychophysical acting processes. Since then he has formulated his own training programme based on the Michael Chekhov technique and has led workshops for schools, colleges and professionals. His work aims to heighten the awareness of the imagination where the actor literally ‘imagines with the body’ to emphasise the actor’s task as a creator not an interpreter, and has begun investigating an embodied approach to script development. His practice aims to provide performers with their own conceptual and practical toolbox that addresses performative concerns/problems/principles whilst establishing a shared vocabulary to critically and creatively engage with one’s own practice.
He is also the research assistant on CEDAR (Clustering and Enhancing Digital Archives for Research); a JISC funded project concerning the ontology of performance archives and the role of digital technologies in higher education. Joseph’s research has led him to consider a practice-based approach to studying theatre histories and the interrelationships between performance and archival theories. He is an associate artist with the theatre company Living Structures.
Email: j.dunne@uel.ac.uk
Position: Visiting Lecturer in Music
Mark Fisher is the author of Capitalist Realism and the editor of The Resistible Demise of Michael Jackson (both Zer0 books, 2009). He is the author of the blog k-punk, and writes regularly for a number of publications including The Wire, Sight and Sound and Film Quarterly. He was also the co-producer of the acclaimed audio essay, Londonunderlondon, and is currently working on its sequel, On Vanishing Land. He is working on a number of book projects, including Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures.
Position: Visiting Lecturer in Dance
Fred Folkes is a Dance teacher who specialises in the dance styles of Popping and Locking, and their histories and styles. He has studied these dance styles with the creators and pioneers of the dances and has been called upon to teach in various Schools, Colleges and Universities in the U.K and Europe. He also runs lectures on Safe Dance Practice and injury prevention for Hip Hop Dance for Breakin Convention.
Position: Visiting Lecturer in Dance
A veteran of over 25 years of involvement in hip hop music and dance, Kevin, aka DJ Renegade, is a consistently active participant in the scene, as DJ, dancer, choreographer and teacher. With a DJ resumé that covers nearly all of the major dance competitions, he has been one of the main architects of the music styles played at hip hop related events worldwide.
He is founder and coach of national breaking champions, Soul Mavericks, and was also involved with the Ballet Boyz, choreographing part of their reinterpretation of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, which was shown on BBC television. He has worked with various members of Flawless and Peridot, high achievers in Britain's Got Talent, to help develop their dance styles and skills. As the resident DJ for the UK BBoy Championships, he is featured annually in the Channel 4 coverage of the world tour. He also regularly attends events as judge and advisor.
Position: Technique Teacher in Dance
Graham is a dance theatre practitioner who utilizes contemporary and classical dance with spoken word and urban genres. He has toured nationally and internationally with Sean Graham Dance Theatre, Irven Lewis Dance Theatre, London Diaspora Dance Theatre and Dancing Strong. Graham has collaborated and worked with many leading established artists including Robert Hylton, Luca Slyvestriniand Jonzi D.
Sean’s work has been staged at Sadler’s Wells & Lillian Baylis (Breakin Convention), The Linbury Studio Theatre at the Royal Opera House, Stratford Circus, Cochrane Theatre, Hackney Empire and The Place. In 2008 and 2009 Sean choreographed for award winning toured play ‘Locked in’ by Fin Kennedy and commissioned by Half Moon Theatre.
Graham is the founding director of Verse Dance Arena (VDA), the dancers’ development association and network founded in 2009 after receiving awards and fellowships from the Association of Dance of the African Diaspora (ADAD) and The Laban centre.
Position: Visiting Lecturer in Music Culture
Guy Harries is a composer writing for live electronics, acoustic instruments, voice and video. His works were performed internationally and his recent chamber opera Jasser toured throughout Holland. He is also a live performer using voice, flute and electronics in various genres such as experimental jazz, free improvisation and electro pop. He is a core member of the POW Ensemble and has collaborated with acclaimed artist Meira Asher with whom he also runs the Bodylab Arts Foundation. His main area of research is live electroacoustic music, and ritual as a model for performance.
.Email: g.harries@uel.ac.uk
Position: Visiting Lecturer in Dance
Adrienne won a scholarship to study at London Contemporary Dance School from 1999 - 2002 where she received her BA (Hons) Contemporary Dance degree. She went on to work professionally as a dancer with Gelede Dance Company performing and touring with the company under the direction of choreographer Menelva Harry.
Adrienne established her cross media based dance company Neon Productions in late 2003 in order to realize her ambition of creating diverse and exciting contemporary dance that incorporates original music and digital technology. Adrienne is an associate artist of the organizations Dance Digital and Swindon Dance. Arts Council Southwest also supports her work. Adrienne is currently working on a contemporary dance opera with the media artist duo SpringerParker, which will premiere in Norway early next year. She teaches both in London and Berlin.
Position: Visiting Lecturer in Dance
Vicki works as an Independent Dance Artist and Manager. She is a Choreographer, Teacher, Dance Manager and lecturer. She holds a BA (Hons) in Dance Studies from Middlesex University and is currently a student at City University studying a Masters in Cultural Leadership.
She is the Creative Director of Uchenna Dance an organisation that offers services in education, community, management, and consultancy whilst running an International Dance Artist programme. And the choreographer of Uchenna Dance Company. Here she undergoes practice based research which sees her fusing Contemporary, Waacking, Vogueing, African and House Dance to create work that celebrates these styles, their technique and choreographic richness. The combination of these styles allows her to develop her vocabulary ‘Urban Contemporary’.
In addition to lecturing at the University of East London She is a Visiting Lecturer and Module Leader (Jazz Dance) at Middlesex University and a teacher at Kensington and Chelsea College delivering Urban Contemporary on the BTEC National Diploma courses.
Vicki is an ADAD Trailblazer Fellow (07-08) a Lisa Ullman recipient (08-09), a member of the Independent Dance Managers Network (IDMN), one half of the ADiaspora Collective and a Sponsored Nike Dance Athlete.
Position: Technique Teacher in Dance
Heidi Rustgaard is a choreographer, designer, performer and co-artistic director of h2dance together with Hanna Gillgren. Together they make work in the UK and Scandinavia and have produced 13 contemporary touring performance works, addressing political and gender issues with humour and irony. The work borrows its aesthetic from contemporary culture, aiming to inspire and provoke. They collaborate with other creatives, often from other artforms, pushing against the boundaries of contemporary dance.
Heidi has undertaken commissions from The Place, Big Dance, Guardians of Doubt and The Wapping Project in the UK and Värmland’s opera in Sweden. As a performer Heidi has worked for companies like Duckie, Clod Ensemble, seven sisters group and Silence Crossing. Heidi regularly delivers workshops and lectures based on her own practice alongside technique classes in release, contact and improvisation. She is currently teaching creative movement at The Circus Space.
Position: Visiting Lecturer in Theatre Studies
Richard is a playwright, dramaturge, director and lecturer, working mainly in theatre and radio.
He is currently adapting a Burmese novel for the stage and writing a new play about contemporary Iran. His credits as a writer include: The Lady of Burma (The story of Aung San Suu Kyi).The play premiered at the Old Vic in London and went on to the Edinburgh Festival 2007, ran in London at the Riverside Studios and toured nationally. The play is published by Oberon Modern Plays and has been performed in Poland, Bangalore, Mumbai and Norway.
Richard was Associate Director (New Work) at Polka Theatre for ten years. His productions at Polka include: Shouting, Stamping, Singing Home by Lisa Evans.
Richard has also worked as lecturer in the Drama Department at Goldsmiths’ College, University of London and was a Senior Lecturer at London Southbank University, teaching sound design.
Email: r.shannon@uel.ac.uk
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