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Ms Angela Woodhouse

Senior Lecturer in Dance (Research)

  • School Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries

  • Department Sound & Screen

  • Location London

Research activities

Angela鈥檚 artistic practice is concerned with dance in respect of audience relations, performance installation, site specific work and interdisciplinary practice.


Current Teaching

Angela Woodhouse,聽Senior Lecturer in Dance, teaches choreography on both聽聽undergraduate and MA programmes.聽 She is module leader for DAN 2533 Creativity and Enterprise (year 2), DAN 3644 Collaborative Practice (WCA partnership Year 3), and DAN 3699 Choreographic Research Project (year 3).聽聽

Angela is also supervisor / tutor on the MAPP programme.

Expertise: dance making/ choreographic practice/ Improvisation/ collaboration/ practice as research/ theory/ philosophies in making.


Biography

Angela trained in dance and visual art at the Metropolitan University of Manchester,and has an MA (dist) from University of Surrey. In 1988 she received the Lisa Ullmannscholarship to study with Alwin Nikolais and Murrey Louis in New York. She hassince worked with Reinhild Hoffmann (Berlin) and Sara Pearson(USA).聽

Since 1997 Angela hasdeveloped many innovative dance performance and installation works. 聽聽Intrinsic has been the potency of intimacy andof near or actual touch between viewers and performers. Her work has tourednationally and internationally. Works include聽叠别迟飞别别苍听(2011-13), incollaboration with artist Caroline Broadhead, an installation performanceproduced by Trinity Laban and touring nationally 聽to 聽YorkshireSculpture Park and many other venues and galleries; 聽;聽颁别苍蝉辞谤别诲听(2010)commissioned by Woking Dance Festival in association with Lightbox Gallery andTate Artist Rooms 鈥� Jenny Holzer;聽厂颈驳丑迟别诲听(2009), produced atThe Place Theatre and commissioned by Royal Opera House Deloitte IgniteFestival with a revival at 聽Sadler鈥檚Wells (foyer) as part of 鈥楽ampled鈥� and at Saatchi Gallery as part of Collect 2015;and聽endings聽(2009/10) commissioned by Transitions DanceCompany and touring internationally. Angela was selected as one of thecommissioned artists for the inaugural Place Prize 2004 with聽Threshold..

More recently Angela was commissioned by NottinghamGalleries and Museums and supported by Dance 4 to create聽Close Distance (2017), a new installation incollaboration again with Caroline Broadhead and with film artist Nic Sandilandfor the 16th聽Century manor Wollaton Hall, Nottinghamshire. 聽

Recent and current collaborationsinclude (Un)touched (2016-2020) with sculptor Nathaniel Rackoweperformed at Canary Wharf as part of 鈥楢rtists at Work鈥� , and subsequently atFold Gallery, London, and CODA International Dance Festival, Norway; 听(诲别)蹿颈驳耻谤别诲 (2018), an intervention ofmaterials and bodies, performed both at Royal Society of Sculptors and forAlserkal Lates in Dubai 2019, and ExpandedLandscapes, commissioned as part of Summer Lights Festival, Canary Wharf, 2022.聽Other recent and current works include ThermalDuets (2019), aseries of intimate films on ipods using thermal imaging technology, made incollaboration with artist Caroline Broadhead, and its successor, Who Cares (2023), using thermal technology to explore the role of touch as asignifier of care, contamination, intimacy and trust, which premiered in WellsCathedral, UK, as part of Wells Art Contemporary 2023.

Angela'swork is funded by Arts Council England, 番茄社区 University, and variouscommissioners

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