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Jon Burtt
Jon Burtt is a lecturer in dance and performance studies at Macquarie University, Sydney, and is a highly respected award-winning researcher and teacher working in the interdisciplinary area between performance studies, pedagogy and creative practice. Burtt has published widely in journals such as New Theatre Quarterly, Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, the Journal of Arts in Society and the Journal of Arts & Communities. He is a co-author of Contemporary Circus (in press 2019), a research project based on an investigation into the creative practice of key circus creators across Australia, Europe and the Americas. Before his academic career, he was co-artistic director of the performance company, Skadada, which toured extensively throughout Australia and Asia to critical and public acclaim.