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Ali East

Ali East (MPhEd, Otago) Alison (Ali) East (MPhEd, Otago) is a New Zealand dance artist, educator and ecologist. She is Chair of the Dance Studies Programme, at University of Otago, Aotearoa New Zealand, teaching choreography, somatics, community dance and dance ethnography. In 1980, along with poet/musician Denys Trussell, she founded Origins Dance Theatre, creating more than twenty-five eco-political mixed-media works. From 1989-1996 she founded and directed New Zealand’s first choreographic tertiary training programme, now Bachelor of Performing and Screen Arts (Unitec, Auckland). Ali co-ordinates the annual Shared Agendas Improvised Performance Events at Otago University – in their twenty-first year. She is a regular presenter at international conferences and has published Teaching Dance as if the World Matters – A Design for Teaching Dance-making in the 21st Century (2011): Lambert Press, Germany, and several book chapters and articles.

Dance Research participants: I wish to acknowledge the three participating dance artists, who made this research possible. They are: Hahna Briggs (Dance Studies, Otago); Miriam Marler (Dance Studies, Otago) and Val Smith (Dance Studies, Auckland).


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