Emeritus Professor Alexandra Carter presents 'Practising Writing'
Reflections on the shared processes of writers and art makers
Location: The Auditorium, UCS Waterfront Building, Ipswich
Date: 25 January 2012
Time: 5.30pm - 7.30pm
Within the field of arts research in higher education, there has traditionally been a clear demarcation between the act of academic writing and the process of making art/performance. Using dance and historiography as frameworks, this presentation explores the commonalities between the creation of words and the creation of art.
Profile
Emeritus Professor Alexandra Carter
Professor Alexandra Carter was Professor in Dance Studies at Middlesex University, London, at which she now holds the post of Emeritus Professor. She taught at undergraduate and postgraduate levels in history, critical analysis of dance and aesthetics, and contributed to choreography and performance studies. She continues to supervise research degree students for the University.
Professor Carter also works with postgraduate students internationally, most recently at the University of Helsinki and the University of Malta. Although specialising in Dance, she has a keen general interest in the skills, methodologies and the application of critical frameworks for research.
Professor Carter‘s own PhD was a revisionist view of the history of ballet. She located this ‘high art’ form in popular culture, most specifically in the palaces of Victorian and Edwardian England. This doctoral work was extended and published by Ashgate in 2005.
She has published extensively in the fields of gender, history and historiographic theory, and presented throughout her career at international conferences on dance and the performing arts.
Working freelance, Professor Carter moved permanently to Suffolk in 2010, becoming Visiting Professor of Dance at UCS. She is still academically active and engages with the practice-based activities of DanceEast.