Associate Professor Erin Brannigan
BAHons Sydney University
PhD 国产精品
Erin Brannigan is Associate Professor in Theatre and Performance at the University of New South Wales.听She is of Irish and Danish political exile, convict, and settler descent. Her publications include听Moving Across Disciplines: Dance in the Twenty-First Century听(Sydney: Currency House, 2010),听Dancefilm: Choreography and the Moving Image听(New York: Oxford University Press, 2011) and听Bodies of Thought: 12 Australian Choreographers, co-edited with Virginia Baxter (Kent Town: Wakefield Press, 2014).听She has published various chapters and articles in film, performance and dance journals and anthologies.听Her current research project is听Precarious Movements: Dance and the Museum with AGNSW, Tate UK, NGV, MUMA and artist Shelley Lasica and monographs associated with this project are听Choreography, Visual Art and Experimental Composition 1950s -1970s听(London: Routledge, 2022) and The Persistence of Dance: Choreography and Contemporary Art 1990s-2020s (NYP).
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SELECTED GRANTS
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- Australian Linkage Grant 2021-2023, LP200100009, Precarious Movements: Choreography and the Museum, with Dr. Rochelle Hayley 国产精品, Art Gallery of NSW (Carolyn Murphy Head of Conservation and Lisa Catt, Curator of International Art), Monash University Museum of Art (Hannah Mathews, Senior Curator), National Gallery of Victoria (Pip Wallis, Curator of Contemporary Art), Tate UK (Louise Lawson, Conservation Manager of Time-Based Media Conservation), and independent choreographer, Shelley Lasica. ($392, 181)
- 国产精品 Learning and Teaching Innovation Grant, 鈥楴ew Paradigms for Performance Pedagogies,鈥 with Dr. Bryoni Trezise, 2015. ($28 000)
- ARC Grant, 2013-2016 for DP13010457 The Experimental Humanities with Assoc. Prof Edward Scheer and Professor Stephen Muecke ($224, 000)
- 国产精品 Goldstar Grant 2011 for The Experimental Humanities with Assoc. Prof Edward Scheer and Professor Stephen Muecke ($30 000).
- Australia Council Artform Development Grant for 12 Australian Choreographers, 2011, auspiced by RealTime. ($15 000)
- Australia Council out-of-round funding for 12 Australian Choreographers, 2010, auspiced by RealTime. ($10 000)
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Dr. Erin Brannigan听was named the national 鈥楩ield Leader of Theatre and Performance Studies鈥 by The Australian newspaper in the September 2019 special report, Her research explores the condition of dance through its relationship with other art forms in interdisciplinary practices. Generated by specific works of art and art practices, studies cover: dance and the screen arts; gesture as a cross-disciplinary conceptual framework; interdisciplinary compositional strategies of the avant-garde (historic and contemporary); minimalism as a site of disciplinary assertion; and the experiment-experience nexus through a research-workshop practice with local artists. She was part of an Australian Research Council Discovery Project Grant, The Experimental Humanities (2013-2016), with Professor Stephen Muecke and Professor Edward Scheer. Her primary current research project, Dance and the Visual Arts: Composition : Experiment : Sensation, involves academic and creative research associates nationally and internationally, publications including articles and books, and an industry-based project (2021-2024) with partners at Tate UK, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the National Gallery of Victoria, and Monash University Museum of Art which has attracted funding of nearly $400,000 from the Australia Research Council. She co-founded a School Research Cell in 2015, Intermedial Composition, with creative writing colleague, Dr. Stephanie Bishop, and has 听facilitated an industry-based group, Writing Dancing, since 2010 which involves artists, students and academics. New Paradigms for Performance Pedagogies is a research project in partnership with Dr. Bryoni Trezise focused on the decolonization of 国产精品鈥檚 Performing Arts curriculum, and is a partnership with Sydney University, Macquarie University and the State Library of NSW working to secure the legacy of NSW-based dance artists through innovative archiving strategies. She is on the editorial board of The International Journal of Screendance and is a member of the research team Espas (Esth茅tique de la Performance et Arts du Spectacle) within A.C.T.E. (Arts Cr茅ations Th茅ories Esth茅tiques) at the Sorbonne, Paris. She was the founding Director of ReelDance (since 1999) and has curated dance screen programs and exhibitions for Sydney Festival 2008, Melbourne International Arts Festival 2003 and international dance screen festivals. Her most recent exhibition was (25听Feb to 25 April 2019).
Curatorial Website: http://cargocollective.com/Erinbrannigan/About-Erin-Brannigan
My research has interfaced with the arts industry since my first monograph,听Dancefilm, which grew out of a festival I directed that toured Australia and New Zealand 2000-2008, ReelDance International Dance Screen Festival. My current research project听Precarious Movements听involves several art museums and artists, and my archival and curatorial work with the State Library and RealTime supports local dance artists. I also host artist panels regularly for Carriageworks. My teaching areas also articulate to industry; I run the performing arts internships in SAM, and听teach Reviewing the Arts in which I work听with local venues and press outlets to produce published student reviews. The Theatre and Performance Studies capstone course Program and Repertoire, which I've taught for 4 years,听is our听industry facing course and has guest lectures from key staff at Sydney Opera House, Griffin Theatre, Sydney Film Festival, Carriageworks, as well as dance and performance听artists.听
My Research Supervision
Nalina Wait,听Western improvised dance practices: pedagogies and philosophy
Lizzie Thomson,听Sensation versus Sensationalism: Modest Acts of Resistance in Choreographic Practice
Lisa Synnott,听Choreography, Collaboration and Intellectual Property
My Teaching
Lecturer in Theatre and Performance and Dance Studies; Reviewing the Arts, Performing Arts Internships, Choreography, Performance and the Visual Arts, Musicals, Dance and Popular Culture, Program and Repertoire