Hard Wired
Summary
artistic-performance
About
James Hewison is a Senior Lecturer in Dance at Edge Hill University, UK. He has made, performed and toured internationally in professional contemporary dance and physical theatre work since 1991 and was a founding member and Associate Artistic Director of Vtol Dance (1991 – 2000). James also has extensive performance credits with Volcano Theatre Company, about whose physical-theatre interpretation of Shakespeare’s Sonnets he wrote in his chapter, ‘Shakespeare and L.O.V.E: dance and desire in the Sonnets’, in The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Dance (2019, McCulloch and Shaw). James has recently published on, and created choreographic performance in response to the work of the surrealist artist Leonora Carrington: Leonora Carrington: Living Legacies, (2020, Cox, Hewison, Man, Shannon), and Imaginarium (Hewison and Man): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko8q80WsWQk. Edge Hill University, Department of Creative Arts, Ormskirk, Lancs, L39 4QP, UK. https://research.edgehill.ac.uk/en/persons/james-hewison ++44 (0) 1695 650782, email: hewisonj@edgehill.ac.uk
Work
Edge Hill University
|Senior Lecturer in Dance, Quality Assurance Coordinator
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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University of Bedfordshire
|Senior Lecturer Dance
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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De Montfort University
|Lecturer Dance
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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Education
De Montfort University
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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MA by Independent Study
Middlesex University
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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Dance Studies
Publications
Shakespeare and L.O.V.E: dance and desire in the Sonnets
Published by
The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Dance
Summary
book-chapter
Leonora Carrington: Living Legacies
Published by
Wilmington: Vernon Press, USA.
Summary
book
Risk and flow in Contact Improvisation: pleasure, play and presence.
Published by
The Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices
Summary
journal-article