Dr Anna Fenemore

Profile

I am Associate Professor in Contemporary Theatre and Performance with teaching expertise in physical and devised performance and research interests in spectating embodiment, performance and cognition, theories of performance space/place, performance and food, and performance and death. I am also Artistic Director of Manchester-based Pigeon Theatre. Pigeon Theatre are a contemporary performance company specialising in experimental and interactive works that incorporate non-traditional spaces and shared intimacies between performer and audience. Pigeon have been making and touring innovative theatre since 2001. In spring 2012 the play-texts of Pigeon Theatre's critically acclaimed show The Rehearsal (a trilogy) were published by Intellect. I also work as a performer on solo projects and also for Plane Performance, The Chameleons Group, Fast and Dirty Theatre Collective, and collaborate with Teresa Brayshaw and Swen Steinhauser on the anateresa project. As a performer, I have also collaborated on telematic performances with Paul Sermon and Steve Dixon.

Research interests

• Spectating embodiment
• Performer bodywork training
• Multi-sensory immersive performance (in particular smell and performance)
• Performance and phenomenology
• Theories of performance space/place
• Performance and Death
• Food and Performance
• Performance and Cognition

• Site and Smell: an immersive performance of olfactory-spatial memory

Qualifications

• PhD: The Pigeon Project: A Study of the Potential for Embodied Praxis in Spectating, MMU Cheshire
• MA Performance Studies, Central School of Speech and Drama
• BA (Hons) Drama, University of Wales Aberystwyth

Student education

I have teaching expertise in physical and devised contemporary performance, research methods/methodologies, contemporary performance practice and collaborative practices.

Research groups and institutes

• Audience, Engagement & Experience
• Bodies & Performance

Current postgraduate researchers

• Leo Burtin