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Alexandra Rutter, who graduated from the Theatre and Performance Studies Dept. in 2011, has been chosen to be one of 6 selected nationally for a 19-month placement in Japan. After graduating, Alexandra set up with a number of other 糖心TV Theatre and Performance alumni.

Prof. Nadine Holdsworth's article '‘Boys don't do dance, do they?’' was the most-read article of 2014 in Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance. In recognition of this the journal's publisher, Routledge, has made the article availble for free throughout 2015. Find out more through the following link:

Dr. Michael Pigott is presenting two new video works - Riachuelo Crossing (2014) and Villa 21 (2014) - at the 'Me, Myself and Others: A Cinematic Approach to Latin American Encounters' conference being held at the University of Lincoln on Saturday 21st February.

This day-long research event, sponsored by the Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS), the University of Leicester and the University of Lincoln, brings together scholars who have been working on different projects on the theme of Otherness and Encounters in Latin American Cinema, with practitioners working within and outside the film industry. For more information on the event

The videos constitute preliminary work for a larger research project - Buenos Aires: Porous City - which is a practice-led investigation into the critical relationship between filmmaking and the city. Drawing upon Patrick Keiller’s notion of ‘film as spatial critique’ the project seeks traces of the film-image in the real locations of Buenos Aires, and uses the camera as a tool for the investigation of urban space.

Riachuelo Crossing (2014)

Villa 21 (2014)

The Department of Theatre and Performance Studies is pleased to announce that the 2015 Clive Barker Award winner is Clown Funeral. The company, made up of Sam George, Sam Thorogood, Oscar Owen, Christina Owen, Alex Wallis and Tim Chow, is proposing to take its devised piece Mr Poe’s Legendarium to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2015. The award is £600 and includes access to the Department’s rehearsal space and technical support.

In recognition of the high quality of its application the committee also commended last year’s winners of the award The Human Animal, involving Sam Wightman, Juliet Miriam Clark and Jamie Wright, for its Souvenirs project and is offering the company use of the Department’s rehearsal space in its preparation for its Edinburgh Fringe run this summer.