Dance, Performance and Visual Art: Intersections with Material Culture

About

Linda E Dankworth is an independent dance ethnographer and ethnochoreologist and has published extensively on Mallorquin dance. She is the joint editor of Dance Ethnography and Global Perspectives: Identity Embodiment and Culture Palgrave Macmillan (2014). She established the Dance Histories Degree Course at the School of Liberal and Performing Arts University of Gloucestershire in 2019. Linda is also Co-Director and founder of the workshops of the World Folk Dance Festival Palma Mallorca (2005-2011). Henia Rottenberg is a dance studies scholar whose interests focus on the dialogue between dance and visual art and on dance in Israel. She is co-editor of Resling books (in Hebrew): Dance Discourse in Israel (2009) Sara Levi-Tanai (2015) Points of Contact (2018) editor of Bat-Dor: The Story of a Dance Company (2020) and a co-editor of Moving through Conflict (2020). Henia lectures in the Theatre Studies faculty at Western Galilee College Israel and was Head of the Dance Theatre Program from 2012-2019. Deborah Williams is a senior lecturer in Dance Studies at the University of Malta. She holds a BA in Dance with a focus on education and community partnerships from Smith College (Five College Dance Department) USA. From the University of Roehampton in London Deborah received both an MA in Dance Anthropology and a PhD in Dance. Her research is rooted in the fields of dance anthropology ethnography and oral history and centres around highlighting the voices of non-professional dancers. Her current research areas include investigating dance social value and representation and dance/movement within digital game design.