Dance Research

Yael Flexer (MPhil/PhD Research Student)

Yael Flexer research is concerned with generating a sense of intimacy in live performance and interactive installation through the reconfiguration of theatrical space.Yael Flexer (MPhil/PhD Research Student)

Yael Flexers research is concerned with generating a sense of intimacy in live performance and interactive installation through the reconfiguration of theatrical space. It brings to the fore a fluid definition of audience as viewer, witness, participant or user and aims to both reaffirm and critically examine embodied perceptual experience as route to intimacy. The choreographic and theoretical research bridges phenomenological and physiological perspectives together with somatic practices focusing in particular on Gestalt field theory and the Authentic Movement model of mover/witness and collective body.

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Lisa Alexander (MPhil/PhD Research Student)

Social and political construction of and understanding through; the senses, in relation to eastern versus western cultures and theatre praxis. Methodologies and subject matter of the UK-based Live Art movement. Exploration of audience as partaker/maker, proximity senses, journey, one-on-one, autobiography and environment/location.

Recent artwork includes, The Snout Belly Bowel residency, Chisenhale Dance Space, Within, a durational sound/light-based installation in St. Augustine’s Tower, London. Up and coming: The Space of Memory: Intimate Narratives, an R&D project in Liverpool, Manchester and London for a new theatre piece. See image left.