Jane started following the work of 2 people.
Jane started following the work of 2 people.
Jane changed a position.
Faculty Member, Dance
Professor, Dance
About
My key research interest is in finding ways in which practitioner/scholars (including mySelf) can ‘articulate something’ of and from the creative process using the Self as source for creativity or auto/Self-ethnography.
My interest in the theories and practice of Carl Jung and post-Jungians supports my creative work by providing a framework for repeated questioning of contemporary myths of dancing, spirituality, womanhood and feminism as well as the complex way in which we all create binaries, boundaries, labels and the like.
My performance/installation work combines aspects of auto-ethnography with psychological and spiritual approaches such as ‘focusing’, ‘active imagination’ and ‘mindfulness’ to the making of interdisciplinary installation work that blends movement, sound/text and video image.
I was part of the original team of academic practitioners at Northampton who developed the first Performance Studies undergraduate degree in the UK. My contributions to the practice-as-research debate and development in the UK have been in the area of documentation, peer-review and criteria for assessment.
As well as my academic/practitioner work in HE, I have a private psychotherapeutic practice (Jungian and Focusing) and am also a creative mentor. Co-Director of The Choreographic Lab (ACE funded) and co-Editor of the Intellect journal Choreographic Practices. PhD (2003) ‘Unveiling the Dance: Arabic Dancing in an Urban English Landscape’
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