Ric Allsopp
Ric Allsopp is a co-founder and joint editor of Performance Research, a quarterly international journal of contemporary performance (London & New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis) <http://www.performance-research.org> He was an integral part of Dartington College of Arts from the mid-1970s onwards and taught at the SNDO in Amsterdam during the 1990s. He was a Guest Professor (2007- 2011) in the new Inter-University Centre for Dance (HZT) at the University of the Arts, Berlin, involved in the development of the Centre and the MA in Solo/Dance/ Authorship; and also visiting lecturer for the MA in Choreography at ArtEZ, Netherlands (2008-2011). He is currently editing two issues of Performance Research on 'Falling' (PR18-4, 2013) with the choreographer Emilyn Claid, and on 'Digital Writing' (PR18-5, 2013) with Jerome Fletcher. Research interests include contemporary performance practices, the poetics and histories of ‘open work’, the choreographic image, and relations between writing and movement. His work has been published in a variety of books and journals including Frakcija, PAJ, Tanz-Journal, and Theater der Zeit. He is currently Professor of Contemporary Performance and Head of Dance & Choreography at Falmouth University, UK.
Ric Allsopp is a co-founder and joint editor of Performance Research, a quarterly international journal of contemporary performance (London & New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis) <http://www.performance-research.org> He was an integral part of Dartington College of Arts from the mid-1970s onwards and taught at the SNDO in Amsterdam during the 1990s. He was a Guest Professor (2007- 2011) in the new Inter-University Centre for Dance (HZT) at the University of the Arts, Berlin, involved in the development of the Centre and the MA in Solo/Dance/ Authorship; and also visiting lecturer for the MA in Choreography at ArtEZ, Netherlands (2008-2011). He is currently editing two issues of Performance Research on 'Falling' (PR18-4, 2013) with the choreographer Emilyn Claid, and on 'Digital Writing' (PR18-5, 2013) with Jerome Fletcher. Research interests include contemporary performance practices, the poetics and histories of ‘open work’, the choreographic image, and relations between writing and movement. His work has been published in a variety of books and journals including Frakcija, PAJ, Tanz-Journal, and Theater der Zeit. He is currently Professor of Contemporary Performance and Head of Dance & Choreography at Falmouth University, UK.