Dr Daniela Perazzo
- Kingston School of Art
- Department of Performing Arts
- School of Arts
- Penrhyn Road
Associate Professor in Dance Studies; Postgraduate Research Coordinator for the Department of Performing Arts and the School of Arts; KSA Athena Swan Co-Chair
About
I am a dance and performance scholar with a specialist interest in the intersections of the aesthetic and the political in interdisciplinary movement practices and experimental dramaturgical processes.
I joined Kingston University London in 2014, having previously taught at the University of Surrey. I am Associate Professor in Dance Studies and Postgraduate Research Coordinator for the Department of Performing Arts and the School of Arts. I supervise interdisciplinary doctoral projects and coordinate the training and recruitment of PhD students across the Performing Arts and the School of Arts; I teach undergraduate modules on choreographic analysis, dance theory, critical theory and research methodologies. I am co-chair of the KSA Athena Swan Steering Group and a member of the KSA EDI in Research subgroup.
I hold an MA (dist., AHRC-funded) in Performance and Culture from Goldsmiths College University of London (2003–4). I received my PhD in Dance Studies from the University of Surrey, funded by a university scholarship (2004–7). My first monograph, Jonathan Burrows: Towards a Minor Dance, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2019 in the "New World Choreographies" series. Other recent publications include articles in Dance Research Journal, Performance Philosophy, Performance Research, Choreographic Practices and Contemporary Theatre Review.
I am co-investigator on the AHRC-funded project "The Dancing Otherwise Network: Exploring Pluriversal Practices" (2023–25), which brings together dance makers, researchers, producers, educators and participants, alongside scholars from diverse fields such as the environmental humanities, social justice and critical race studies, to consider how a more just and more equitable pluriversal dance ecosystem might be envisioned, shaped by the co-existence and cross-fertilisation of divergent practices, voices and worldviews.
Qualifications
- PhD Dance Studies, University of Surrey (University of Surrey scholarship), 2007
- MA Performance and Culture: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Goldsmiths College University of London (AHRC-funded; Distinction), 2004
- Laurea in Lettere (BA Liberal Arts with Theatre Studies; 110/110 cum laude), University of Pavia, Italy, 2000
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)