Andrea Davidson
Senior Lecturer
Dr Andrea Davidson is a Senior Lecturer in Dance and a practicing video and multimedia artist. Following a career as soloist and principal dancer of the National Ballet of Canada, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, Ballet Manhattan, Desrosiers Dance Theatre and Entre-Six, she went on to author, produce and interpret her own choreography in Canada before moving to Paris where she completed a PhD in interactive studies from the Université Paris 8 in 2003.
Since 2000, she has been teaching courses on videodance and new media for dance at the Universités Paris 8 and Nancy 1 as well as in other cultural institutions in Europe. Her creative work in video and multimedia, including La morsure, a pioneer digital interactive choreography for CD-ROM and installation, has been presented in numerous international art centres, festivals, conferences and exhibitions as well as having received the Prix de l'Écriture Multimédia de la Fondation Beaumarchais (1997); a special mention from the jury of the Festival Napolidanza 'Il Coreografo Elettronico' (2000); and the Grand Prix International Videodanse section New Media from UNESCO (2002). A researcher, theoretician and writer in the domain of dance and new media, Dr Davidson has contributed articles for books, reviews, conferences and websites dedicated to the subject of dance and new technology and, in 2006, she wrote the book Bains Numériques #1 : Danse et nouvelles technologies, a commission of the Centre des Arts d'Enghien-les-Bains.
Email: a.davidson@chi.ac.uk
