Dr Stefanie Sachsenmaier
| Name | Dr Stefanie Sachsenmaier |
|---|---|
| Job title | Associate Professor in Theatre (Research) |
| Research institute | |
| Primary appointment | School of Arts |
| Email address | S.Sachsenmaier@mdx.ac.uk |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5485-0607 |
| Contact category | Academic 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)
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Performance | Process | Politics
Sachsenmaier, S. 2024. Performance | Process | Politics. Studies in Theatre and Performance. https://doi.org/10.1080/14682761.2024.2338968Collective 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/10.1080/14682761.2024.2338974Before 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/10.1080/14682761.2024.2341364Solidarity 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/10.1080/13528165.2022.2160913Performance 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/10.1080/19443927.2022.2102741Special 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/10.1080/19443927.2021.1902382Retaining 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. 107-114Susanne 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.2020.0297Writing '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. 72-77Silent 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. 163-188Ways 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_1Positive 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. 221-235Collaboration, 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. 51-74Collaborative 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. 1-24Productive 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. 280-302Collaboration 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/10.1080/13528165.2015.1111060Making 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 2015Time’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 2014Productive 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 2014The 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 ArtsIntuition
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_1Just 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 2013Remote Collaboration
Sachsenmaier, S., Franglen, N. and Wragg, G. 2013. Remote Collaboration. Independent Dance, Siobhan Davies Studios, London Mar 2013Lichtspur
Sachsenmaier, S. and Lammers, C. 2012. Lichtspur. St. Paulskirche Munich Apr 2012Vom 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. 95-107Beyond 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_1Spontaneous combustion
Sachsenmaier, S., Lammers, C. and Franglen, N. 2011. Spontaneous combustion. Theatre Academy Helsinki Jan 2011Lichtung
Sachsenmaier, S., Lammers, C. and Imori, M. 2011. Lichtung. UniCredit Kunstraum am Viktualienmarkt, Munich Dec 2011Spontaneous 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. 127-133Tanz 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 20101499
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