Event overview
Part of the autumn series of the Research Seminar on the Theory, Practice and History of Performance, Department of Theatre and Performance, Goldsmiths, University of London
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About Dr Kelina Gotman
Research Interests
- Theatre and Performance History and Theory
- Cultural Theory
- Science, Nature and Performance, including Medicine and Psychiatry
- Dance
- Heritage
- Institutions
My work is interdisciplinary, drawing from the medical humanities, history, philosophy, and cultural theory. I am currently completing a book on dance manias in nineteenth-century medical literature, in which I describe the emergence of the "choreomania” (“dance mania”) diagnosis in medical and anthropological circles in Europe and the colonial world. My research on zoanthropy, including lycanthropy and tarantism, was supported by an Audrey and William H Helfand Fellowship in the Medical Humanities at the New York Academy of Medicine, and forms part of a larger project on ethnofiction, translation and theatre. I have a longstanding interest in “world” cultures and the institutional structures that “house” them; current projects involve dance tourism and cultural policy, including tango in Buenos Aires. I am also interested in heritage, including Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH), and concepts of history, home and “authenticity".
I run a working session on “the dancing-place” for the American Society for Theatre Research, adapting this notion from cultural geography to consider concepts of history and place in performance research. I serve on the steering committee for the Performing Medicine project, and am actively interested in aspects of movement, health and disease. I am also actively involved in developing an international and interdisciplinary theatre and performance research network at King’s, to facilitate collaboration between artists and scholars across areas. I have been involved with contemporary art and art theory (Parachute), business strategy (Mitchell Madison Group), and arts consultancy (Festival International de Nouvelle Danse/International New Dance Festival, FIND, Montreal; Misnomer Dance Theatre, New York; English National Opera Baylis, London).
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 26 Oct 2011 | 4:30pm - 6:00pm |
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