Dr Stefanie Sachsenmaier


Dr Stefanie Sachsenmaier
NameDr Stefanie Sachsenmaier
Job titleAssociate Professor in Theatre (Research)
Research institute
Primary appointmentSchool of Arts
Email addressS.Sachsenmaier@mdx.ac.uk
ORCIDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-5485-0607
Contact categoryAcademic staff

Biography

Biography

Stefanie Gabriele Sachsenmaier (PhD Middlesex University, DEA Université de la Sorbonne Nlle, MA Goldsmiths College, SFHEA) is Associate Professor in Contemporary Performance at Middlesex University. She is Postgraduate Research Degrees Lead for the Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries and Chair of the Faculty Ethics Committee. Her research centres on the processual in creative practice, with a particular interest in the ways that performance practices extend into socio-political contexts. Roles on funded projects include Co-Investigator on Artistic Doctorates in Europe (ErasmusPlus, 2017-2019) and Co-Investigator for Future Ecologies: Producing Dance Network (AHRC, Dance Research Matters, 2023-2025). She forms part of the AHRC Dance Research Matters Advisory Group, is editorial team member of Contemporary Theatre Review ‘Interventions’ and sits on the editorial board of Choreographic Practices Journal. Publications include the co-edited book Collaboration in Performance Practice: Premises, Workings and Failures (Palgrave 2016) and a series of writings related to her long-term research with British choreographer Rosemary Butcher, with archival work ongoing. She co-edited the special issues Critical Stages ‘Unstable Ground: Reconfigurations of Performance and Politics’ (2021) and Performance Research: ‘On Solidarity’ (2022) and is currently working on a monograph with the working title Politics of Process in Performance, forthcoming with Bloomsbury. With a background as a performer, she is an experienced practitioner of Wu Style taijiquan. 

Teaching

Postgraduate Research Degrees Lead, Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries

THE3025 Performance: Body and Training, BA Theatre (Module Leader)

THE3535 Theatre Festival, BA Theatre (Module Leader)

THE4000 Reflecting Practices, MA Theatre Arts (Module Leader)

Doctoral supervision:

Alexandra Baybutt: “Imperceptible politics: curation of contemporary dance festivals in the former Yugoslav space, 2007-2017” Second Supervisor (completed 2020)

Helen Kindred: “Dancing in-between” – Second Supervisor (2014 – completed 2020)

Abigail Diaz: “Dance Technology: Fostering digital creativity and hybridized compositional practices” – Director of Studies (2017 – anticipated completion 2024)

Su Rong: “Drama Education Curriculum for Children aged 6-12 in a Chinese Context” – Director of Studies (2019 – anticipated completion 2024)

Dominique Rivoal: “Mind Clearing and Dance-Making” – Director of Studies, ArtsD (2018 – anticipated completion 2024)

Huai-wen Chang: "Dance without a Dancer: Improvising towards and in a state of unmediated awareness" - Director of Studies, MPhil/PhD (2023 - anticipated completion 2025)

Education and qualifications

Grants

Prizes and Awards

External activities

Research outputs

Performance | Process | Politics

Sachsenmaier, S. 2024. Performance | Process | Politics. Studies in Theatre and Performance. https://doi.org/10.1080/14682761.2024.2338968

Collective resistance roundtable discussion

Benson, J., Sachsenmaier, S., Jain, I., Syssoyeva, K. and Listengarten, J. 2024. Collective resistance roundtable discussion. Studies in Theatre and Performance. 44 (1), pp. 113-120. https://doi.org/10.1080/14682761.2024.2338974

Before solidarity: the process politics of relationality, receptivity and attunement

Sachsenmaier, S. 2024. Before solidarity: the process politics of relationality, receptivity and attunement. Studies in Theatre and Performance. 44 (1), pp. 8-23. https://doi.org/10.1080/14682761.2024.2341364

Solidarity in Performance: considering activist processes in neoliberal times

Sachsenmaier, S. 2022. Solidarity in Performance: considering activist processes in neoliberal times. Performance Research. 27 (5), pp. 4-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/13528165.2022.2160913

Performance Research, Volume 27, Issue 5 (2022): On Solidarity

Colin, N. and Sachsenmaier, S. (ed.) 2022. Performance Research, Volume 27, Issue 5 (2022): On Solidarity. Taylor & Francis (Routledge).

太极推手: Taiji Pushing Hands (Postcard)

Sachsenmaier, S. 2022. 太极推手: Taiji Pushing Hands (Postcard). Theatre, Dance and Performance Training. 13 (3), pp. 463-464. https://doi.org/10.1080/19443927.2022.2102741

Special Issue: Critical Stages: Unstable grounds: reconfigurations of performance and politics, Issue 23, ISSN 2409-7411

Argyropoulou, G. and Sachsenmaier, S. 2021. Special Issue: Critical Stages: Unstable grounds: reconfigurations of performance and politics, Issue 23, ISSN 2409-7411. International Association of Theatre Critics.

‘Critical Pathways’ – Training and investigating the art of choreography-making with Rosemary Butcher

Sachsenmaier, S. 2021. ‘Critical Pathways’ – Training and investigating the art of choreography-making with Rosemary Butcher. Theatre, Dance and Performance Training. 12 (2), pp. 164-183. https://doi.org/10.1080/19443927.2021.1902382

Retaining and reframing: notes on processes of remembering in Rosemary Butcher's choreography-making

Sachsenmaier, S. 2020. Retaining and reframing: notes on processes of remembering in Rosemary Butcher's choreography-making. in: Keefe, J. and Arntzen, K. (ed.) Staging and re-cycling: retrieving, reflecting and re-framing the archive London and New York Routledge. pp. 107-114

Susanne Foellmer, Maria Katharina Schmidt, and Cornelia Schmitz (eds.),Performing Arts in Transition: Moving Between Media, Oxford and New York:Routledge, 2019, 256 pp. 16 black and white illustrations, £120 Hbk, £44.99Ebk, ISBN: 9781138574014 [Book review]

Sachsenmaier, S. 2020. Susanne Foellmer, Maria Katharina Schmidt, and Cornelia Schmitz (eds.),Performing Arts in Transition: Moving Between Media, Oxford and New York:Routledge, 2019, 256 pp. 16 black and white illustrations, £120 Hbk, £44.99Ebk, ISBN: 9781138574014 [Book review]. Dance Research. 38 (1), pp. 127-128. https://doi.org/10.3366/drs.2020.0297

Writing 'Practice' /Practising/ 'Writing' (in the doctoral research context)

Melrose, S. and Sachsenmaier, S. 2019. Writing 'Practice' /Practising/ 'Writing' (in the doctoral research context). in: Midgelow, V., Bacon, J., Hilton, R. and Kramer, P. (ed.) Researching (in/as) Motion: A Resource Collection - Artistic Doctorates in Europe Helsinki Theatre Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki.

Rosemary Butcher: after Kaprow – a visual journey

Butcher, R. and Sachsenmaier, S. 2018. Rosemary Butcher: after Kaprow – a visual journey. in: Clarke, P., Jones, S., Kaye, N. and Linsley, J. (ed.) Artists in the Archive: Creative and Curatorial Engagements with Documents of Art and Performance Abingdon Routledge. pp. 72-77

Silent transformations in choreography—Making over time: Rosemary Butcher’s practice of 'Looking Back and Ahead'

Sachsenmaier, S. 2017. Silent transformations in choreography—Making over time: Rosemary Butcher’s practice of 'Looking Back and Ahead'. in: Main, L. (ed.) Transmissions in Dance: Contemporary Staging Practices Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 163-188

Ways of doing, ways of thinking, ways of moving together: Considerations for cross-cultural encounters and exchanges in and through dance practice

Sachsenmaier, S. 2016. Ways of doing, ways of thinking, ways of moving together: Considerations for cross-cultural encounters and exchanges in and through dance practice. Choreographic Practices. 7 (2), pp. 305-326. https://doi.org/10.1386/chor.7.2.305_1

Positive negatives: or the subtle arts of compromise

Melrose, S. 2015. Positive negatives: or the subtle arts of compromise. in: Colin, N. and Sachsenmaier, S. (ed.) Collaboration in Performance Practice: Premises, Workings and Failures UK Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 239-258

‘Nothing about us without us’: collaborations between disabled and non-disabled practitioners

de Senna, P., Bowditch, C. and Bower, D. 2015. ‘Nothing about us without us’: collaborations between disabled and non-disabled practitioners. in: Colin, N. and Sachsenmaier, S. (ed.) Collaboration in Performance Practice: Premises, Workings and Failures London Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 221-235

Collaboration, democracy and the total artwork

Kolb, A. 2015. Collaboration, democracy and the total artwork. in: Colin, N. and Sachsenmaier, S. (ed.) Collaboration in Performance Practice: Premises, Workings and Failures London Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 51-74

Collaborative performance-making in context

Colin, N. and Sachsenmaier, S. 2015. Collaborative performance-making in context. in: Colin, N. and Sachsenmaier, S. (ed.) Collaboration in Performance Practice: Premises, Workings and Failures London Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 1-24

Productive misapprehensions: Artscross as a cross-cultural collaborative zone of contestation of contemporary dance practice

Sachsenmaier, S. 2015. Productive misapprehensions: Artscross as a cross-cultural collaborative zone of contestation of contemporary dance practice. in: Colin, N. and Sachsenmaier, S. (ed.) Collaboration in Performance Practice: Premises, Workings and Failures London Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 280-302

Collaboration in performance practice: Premises, workings and failures

Colin, N. and Sachsenmaier, S. (ed.) 2015. Collaboration in performance practice: Premises, workings and failures. London Palgrave Macmillan.

Just in Time: Rosemary Butcher, making memories and marks

Melrose, S., Sachsenmaier, S. and Butcher, R. 2015. Just in Time: Rosemary Butcher, making memories and marks. Performance Research. 20 (6), pp. 87-94. https://doi.org/10.1080/13528165.2015.1111060

Making marks and memories – the body in recorded time

Butcher, R. and Sachsenmaier, S. 2015. Making marks and memories – the body in recorded time. Memory Sentiment Body Space Object Symposium. Coventry 15 May 2015

Time’s markings/marking time/s: Rosemary Butcher’s secrets of the open sea (Revised 2019)

Melrose, S. and Sachsenmaier, S. 2014. Time’s markings/marking time/s: Rosemary Butcher’s secrets of the open sea (Revised 2019). IFTR (International Federation for Theatre Research) On Stratification. Warwick 18 Jul - 01 Aug 2014

Productive misapprehensions – Artscross as a trans-cultural collaborative zone of contestation of performance practice

Sachsenmaier, S. 2014. Productive misapprehensions – Artscross as a trans-cultural collaborative zone of contestation of performance practice. PSi20 Avant-Garde, Tradition, Community. Shanghai, China 04 - 08 Jul 2014

The invisible expert practitioner: theorising performer expertise in contemporary performance-making

Sachsenmaier, S. 2010. The invisible expert practitioner: theorising performer expertise in contemporary performance-making. PhD thesis Middlesex University Performing Arts

Intuition

Sachsenmaier, S. Intuition.

Reinventing the past: Rosemary Butcher encounters Allan Kaprow's 18 happenings in 6 parts

Sachsenmaier, S. 2013. Reinventing the past: Rosemary Butcher encounters Allan Kaprow's 18 happenings in 6 parts. Choreographic Practices. 4 (2), pp. 223-244. https://doi.org/10.1386/chor.4.2.223_1

Just in time: ‘momentary’ events in the making of Rosemary Butcher’s signature practices

Melrose, S., Sachsenmaier, S. and Butcher, R. 2013. Just in time: ‘momentary’ events in the making of Rosemary Butcher’s signature practices. Performance Studies International Conference (PSi 19). Stanford, CA, United States 26 - 30 Jun 2013

Remote Collaboration

Sachsenmaier, S., Franglen, N. and Wragg, G. 2013. Remote Collaboration. Independent Dance, Siobhan Davies Studios, London Mar 2013

Lichtspur

Sachsenmaier, S. and Lammers, C. 2012. Lichtspur. St. Paulskirche Munich Apr 2012

Vom Archiv zur Neuerfindung. Fragen zur künstlerischen Handschrift im kreativen Schaffensprozess zeitgenössischer Performance

Sachsenmaier, S. 2012. Vom Archiv zur Neuerfindung. Fragen zur künstlerischen Handschrift im kreativen Schaffensprozess zeitgenössischer Performance. in: Behrens, C., Burkhard, H., Fleischle-Braun, C. and Obermaier, K. (ed.) Tanzerfahrung und Weltkenntnis Leipzig Henschel Verlag. pp. 95-107

Beyond Allan Kaprow: an interview with Rosemary Butcher

Sachsenmaier, S. 2012. Beyond Allan Kaprow: an interview with Rosemary Butcher. Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices. 4 (2), pp. 267-281. https://doi.org/10.1386/jdsp.4.2.267_1

Spontaneous combustion

Sachsenmaier, S., Lammers, C. and Franglen, N. 2011. Spontaneous combustion. Theatre Academy Helsinki Jan 2011

Lichtung

Sachsenmaier, S., Lammers, C. and Imori, M. 2011. Lichtung. UniCredit Kunstraum am Viktualienmarkt, Munich Dec 2011

Spontaneous combustion

Sachsenmaier, S. 2011. Spontaneous combustion. in: Arlander, A. (ed.) Artistic Research in Action: Proceedings of CARPA2, Colloquium on Artistic Research in Performing Arts Theatre Academy Helsinki. pp. 127-133

Tanz auf dem Vulkan (Dancing on a volcano)

Sachsenmaier, S., Lammers, C. and Spengler, S. 2010. Tanz auf dem Vulkan (Dancing on a volcano). Städtische Galerie Kunstarkaden Munich 27 Apr - 28 May 2010
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