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Louisa Petts
Louisa Petts is a Ph.D. candidate at the Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE) at Coventry University. She is the recipient of the Arts and Humanities Research Council studentship award offered by Midlands4Cities Doctoral Training Partnership. Louisa studied at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance and was a recipient of the Trinity Laban Dance Award Scholarship. She graduated with an M.Sc. in dance science in 2019 with distinction. Prior to this, Louisa studied at the University of Roehampton, achieving first-class honours and receiving the prize for best dissertation in BA Dance Studies in 2018. Louisa’s research interests concern communities dancing, dance and health, and person-centred dance practice. Louisa lives with moderate hearing loss and is learning British Sign Language at City Lit. She has lectured at undergraduate and postgraduate level in dance science, methodologies and product design, currently working as a dance science lecturer with bbodance and as editorial assistant for the Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices. Louisa is also part of the site-specific research project The Shape of Sound collective, who are working on the forthcoming publication Dance and Silence, as part of the interdisciplinary book series, Dance in Dialogue (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024).
Contact: Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE), Coventry University, Priory Street, Coventry CV1 5FB, UK.