ResDance Series 7: Episode 10: Thinking differently about the body in interdisciplinary research contexts with Susanne Foellmer
In this episode, Susanne shares insight into her background and experiences as a researcher in dance studies and her various interests positioned within contemporary dance, choreography and performance art. Through situating her ideas within her research practice, we explore perspectives for thinking differently about the body and the importance of understanding dance theory as a critical practice. Throughout the episode, Susanne highlights the need for greater visibility of the field of dance studies and continued open conversation in interdisciplinary research contexts.
Susanne Foellmer is full professor in dance studies at the Centre for Dance Research, Coventry University, UK. Her research interests include aesthetic theory, corporeality, media, and materiality in contemporary dance and performance art and in the Weimar era. She also engages in interdisciplinary research with regards to choreography in an expanded sense, particularly exploring social movements’ interrelations of the onsite, embodied public sphere and its media reverberations online. From 2022-23 she has been Senior Fellow at the Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald.
Staff profile weblink: https://pureportal.coventry.ac.uk/en/persons/susanne-foellmer
Contact details:
Email: susanne.foellmer@coventry.ac.uk
Bluesky: @sufoellmer.bsky.social
Other links:
LinkedIn: Susanne Foellmer
Centre for Dance Research, Coventry University
Published resources of interest
Foellmer, S. (2024). Communal Choreographies: Claiming the Embodied Public Sphere in Recent Climate Activism. Critical Stages, 29. https://www.critical-stages.org/29/commmunal-choreographies-claiming-the-embodied-public-sphere-in-recent-climate-activism/
Foellmer, S. (2023). The Archival Turn in Dance/Studies. Reflections on (Corporeal) Archives and Documents. (Reprint) Theatralia: Journal of Theatre Studies, 25(2), 129-147.
Foellmer, S. (2020). Series and Relics: On the Presence of Remainders in Performance’s Museum. In S. Whatley, I. Racz, K. Paramana, & M.-L. Crawley (Eds.), Art and Dance in Dialogue: Body, Space, Object (1 ed., pp. 147-162). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44085-5_9
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