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Dr Anna Fenemore

Dr Anna Fenemore

  • Position: Associate Professor (Contemporary Theatre & Performance)
  • Areas of expertise: Children in performance; care-experience and art-making; spectating embodiment; physical & devised performance; performance & death; performance & food; performance & cognition.
  • Email: A.Fenemore@leeds.ac.uk
  • Phone: +44(0)113 343 8736
  • Location: G-09 Stage@leeds
  • Website: Pigeon Theatre | ORCID | Scopus

Profile

I am Associate Professor in Contemporary Theatre and Performance with teaching expertise in writing for contemporary theatre and performance, physical and devised performance, research skills and contemporary European theatre. My current research centres around children in performance, care experience & art-making, care experience & storytelling, and family art-making,. Other research specialisms include 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, and make performance work with my own children. Pigeon have been making and touring innovative theatre since 2001. In 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, in colllaboration with other artists and with my children.

Research interests

  • Children in Performance
  • Care-experience and art-making
  • Care-experience and storytelling
  • Family art making
  • 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
<h4>Research projects</h4> <p>Some research projects I'm currently working on, or have worked on, will be listed below. Our list of all <a href="https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/dir/research-projects">research projects</a> allows you to view and search the full list of projects in the faculty.</p>

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 writing for contemporary theatre and performance, 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

<h4>Postgraduate research opportunities</h4> <p>We welcome enquiries from motivated and qualified applicants from all around the world who are interested in PhD study. Our <a href="https://phd.leeds.ac.uk">research opportunities</a> allow you to search for projects and scholarships.</p>