Professor Helen Newall

Profile

Research Interests

• Practice Research; creative process; and methodologies.
• Performance photography and documentation; and discourses of images and performance.
• Playwrighting; palimpsests of landscape; site specific and site responsive community writing.
• Performance projection and animation; miniature installation work interrogating memory, commemoration & WWI.

 

Teaching

Undergraduate Teaching

BA (Hons) Drama; BA (Hons) Creative Performance. Modules: multimedia; Key Modern Drama Practitioners; site-specific performance; installation art.

Postgraduate Teaching

MA Making Performance. Modules: Practice as Research; performance practice; dissertation.

PhD supervision
Director of Studies:

• Circus and Street Arts as Radical Art Forms
• Effects of Nazi Occupation on Norwegian Music
• Exploring Domination Through Sound Art
• Devising Dance Theatre (University of Bolton).

 Completions:

• In Search of Duende
• Time Ghost: A Memetic Application for the Creation of Live and Virtual Performance
• Commedia Dell’Arte and Neo-Commedia

Applications welcomed in the areas of scriptwriting; experimental writing; commemoration; multimedia; installation arts; community arts; performance photography and documentation practices.