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Beatrice Jarvis
Beatrice Jarvis is a creative facilitator, choreographer and researcher. She is currently a full-time lecturer in dance at Kingston University, London. She holds a practice-based Ph.D. exploring dance as medium to explore spatial and social conflict. As a dance artist, she works in Romania, Berlin, Germany and Northern Ireland to generate large-scale and site-specific choreographic works to explore the social power and potential of embodied movement practices. Her socio-choreographic research has been profiled within Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, dOCUMENTA (13), The National School of Art Bucharest, Galway Dance Festival, Goldsmiths CUCR Tate, and the American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting. Her most recent commission has been to make a solo work for the Hold Everything Dear: Performance, Politics and John Berger Symposium at The Bathway Theatre, London. Her current research explores application of the principles of Deep Ecology and Ecopsychology to site specific performance practice for screen. Her recent works made in Donegal were profiled at the Conference of Irish Geographers in Maynooth 2018.