Michelle Elliott

Personal Statement

Associate Senior Lecturer: Dance. School of Music & Performing Arts

MA, BA (Hons), PG (Dip), PGCE

Personal Statement:

Michelle Elliott is a Senior Lecturer in Dance who joined the dance department in 2008. She is an experienced choreographer, teacher and performer who has previously worked as a dancer with the Doris Humphrey Dance Foundation, under the direction of Lesley Maine, and as the artistic director of the Arthouse Dance Project. She has extensive teaching experience and has worked in a variety of educational contexts. She was Curriculum Leader for Dance at Sussex Downs College, a Centre for Vocational Excellence in the Performing Arts (CoVE) from 2000-2008. During this time she was appointed to the role of Artistic Director of the CoVE from 2006-07. She was also responsible for the development of a two-year full time undergraduate Foundation Degree in Contemporary Dance for the University of Brighton.

Professional Qualifications:

MA Choreography 2009, Middlesex University

PGCE in Post-compulsory Education 2003, University of Brighton

PG (Dip) Arts Management 2000, University of Sussex

BA (Hons) Performing Arts: Dance 1995, Middlesex University

Membership of Professional Bodies/Subject Associations:

Institute for Learning

SCUDD

Teaching Specialism:

Choreography and cultural identity

Critical approaches to interdisciplinary dance performance

The choreographer as researcher

Key Publications/Performances:

2010 Conference Paper ‘Choreography and Britishness’, Imagining Bodies: Landscape, Memory,

Community, Tallinn University, Estonia, May 15th http://www.saal.ee/event/203/?lng=en

2009 ‘Critical Approaches to Interdisciplinary Dance Performance’, Research in Dance Education, Vol. 10, Number 1 http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a908969399~db=all~jumptype=rss

2008 Light and Movement, A Choreographic Research Project www.mkennedychoreographicresearch.blogspot.com

2008 We Want You To Watch Us The Nightingale Theatre, Brighton

http://www.vimeo.com/14674604

2001-2007 A range of new works for the youth dance company Miles Per Hour, performed at the Gardner Arts Centre, University of Sussex and Corn Exchange, Brighton

1997 Underfoot Choreographic Residency at Luton Sixth Form

1996 Mixing the Bill, Cambridge University Summer Ball

1996 The Box, Octagon Theatre, Yeovil

1996 Sentence of Movement, Octagon Theatre, Yeovil

1995 Pasacaglia, directed by Lesley Maine

1995 Seek to the Shores, Old Bull Arts Centre.

Current Scholarship:

In 2009 Michelle completed her MA in choreography which enabled her to pursue both theoretical and practical research in a range of areas. She is currently engaged in researching how postcolonial and poststructural debates affect Britishness and choreography. Her most recent choreographic work We Want You to Watch Us was presented at the Nightingale Theatre in Brighton in June 2008.

Other External Roles:

External Examiner for University of Plymouth

External Panel Member for the HND Dance programme run by Kidderminster College in partnership with Worcester University 2009

Guest speaker at National Dance Teacher’s Association 2007

Recent Professional Updating:

2011 Thinking Through Dance Conference, Roehampton University

2011 Moving Forwards: Practice as Research in Dance Symposium, University of Northampton

2010 Imagining Bodies: Landscape, Memory, Community Conference, Tallinn University, Estonia

2009 CORD Conference: Global Perspectives on Dance Pedagogy

2009 Palatine Conference 'Starting Out in Dance', Lancaster

2007-08
Choreographic and performance workshops and lectures with Dr. Janet O’Shea, Prof. Christopher Bannerman, Paul-Andre Fortier, Yuzo Ishiyama, Lou Cope, Shobana Jeyasingh, Athina Vahla, Tammy McClorg, Seeta Patel, Joshua Sofaer, Richard Layzell, Dr. Jane Watt, Rosemary Lee

2005-09
Contemporary technique courses at The Place with a range of guest lecturers including Kerry Nichols, David Steele, Jonathon Goddard, Lynsey McConville, Akosua Boakye, Sol Corbach, Scott Smith, Theo Clinkard, Martin Lawrence, Hilary Stainsby

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