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RESEARCH, project management, teaching and dramaturgy

Project leadership (PI) Knowing in Motion. Dance, Body, Archive (2023-2026) supported by the Augustinus Foundation. https://artsandculturalstudies.ku.dk/research/knowing-in-motion/

Research interests include practice based research in performing arts, decolonial readings of dance and theatre historiography, critical archival studies, site specificity as well as ritual theory. Widely published and often invited as guest lecturer in Denmark and abroad.

Teaching at BA-level includes course in Dance and Theatre Historiography, Performance Analysis and Complex Dramaturgy - and at MA-level: Research practices in theatre and performance studies + special topics courses on Site Specificity, Research Methods and Audience Relations

Service to the community includes project reports, conference organzing, peer reviews, external examiner, member of  evaluation committees (MA and PhD) and appointment committees for academic positions a.w.a. positions on various editorial boards and artistic jurys. Currently a member of the Reseach Collegium of Department of Arts and Cultural Studies 2023-. Served on the the Board of Directors of Congress of Research in Dance 2009-2012, as Vice Chair of the Danish Arts Council and Chair of the Arts Councils Committee for Film and Performing Arts (2011-2014), the Board of Directors of Københavns Teatersamarbejde 2014-2017, and on the Evaluration Committee of Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies' Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Arts (2016-2020), the Board of Directors of Dansehallerne (2018-2024) and the nominating committe for the Crown Prince Couple's Awards (2022-2024). 

CV

• 2015 Associate Professor, Theatre and Performance Studies, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies
• 2012 Adjunct Professor, Theatre and Performance Studies, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies
• 2008 - 2012 Research Fellow at Tampere University as part of the research group Dance in Nordic Spaces (with support from Svenska Riksbanken)
• 2006- 2008 Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies Core Fellowship Program
• 2005-2006 Postdoctorate Fellowship University of Copenhagen research priority area: Religion in the 21st Century
• 2004   PhD, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies Section for Dance and Theatre Studies, University of Copenhagen: Title: ”Ballethistoriens Anden. Moderne scenisk dans i Danmark 1900 – 1975”
• 1994   MA (cand. mag.), Department of Theatre Studies, University of Copenhagen. Thesis: ”Den energiske frue: Ballet og dans i Danmark set gennem Emilie Walboms virke”.
• 1978  BA (bifag), Department of Cultural Sociology, University of Copenhagen