Professor Victoria Hunter
Professor of Site-Dance, & MA Choreography and Professional Practices Leader
About
Vicky Hunter is a Practitioner-Researcher and Professor in Site Dance at the 香港六合论坛.
She teaches across a range of theoretical and practical modules, areas of specialism include: site dance practice and theory, choreography, practice-research methods, dissertation research and PhD supervision.
Vicky has previously led the BA Dance programme at the University of Leeds and taught on the M.A choreography programme at LIPA and contributed to the delivery of the M.A choreography programme at Fonty鈥檚 Academy in Tilburg, Holland and the B.A Dance and Culture programme at the University of Surrey.
Vicky convenes the University鈥檚 Environment and Experience Research Group and her writing on site-dance has been published in Literary Geographies, New Theatre Quarterly, Performance Research, Choreographic Practices and Contemporary Theatre Review.
Her edited volume Moving Sites: Investigating Site-Specific Dance Performance was published by Routledge in 2015 and she is co-author of (Re) Positioning Site-Dance (Intellect 2019) with Melanie Kloetzel (Canada) and Karen Barbour (Aotearoa New Zealand).
Her monograph Site, Dance and Body: Movement, Materials and Corporeal Engagement explores human-environment synergies through material intra-actions and was published by Palgrave in 2021.
Her practice-based research includes include:
- Beneath (2004)
- The Library Dances (2006)
- Project 3 (2007), a durational dance installation work
- x3 (2010) a site-specific dance film
- Dancing the Beach for West Wittering beach on the South coast of England in June 2013,
- The Abbots Dances (Guildford 2014)
- A Dance for You, Royal Holloway, 201
- Dance Site and Body, Barcelona 2018
- A Holding Space, Kingley Vale Nature Reserve, West Sussex, 2021
Vicky has PhD supervisory experience in the areas of:
- Site dance and architectural practice
- Choreographic Sense-making
- Dance and Archiving
- Hip Hop Dance theatre
- Site dance and inner/outer landscapes
- Durational walking practice
- Dance, lighting and new materialism
- Choreography, clay and pottery
- Dance and embodiment
Research Output
Articles
Hunter, V. (2022) Ecocene Arts, 3 (1). pp. 93-96. ISSN 2717-8943 0.46863/ecocene.74
Hunter, V. (2019) Choreographic Practices, 10 (1). pp. 127-144. ISSN 2040-5669
Hunter, V. and Pellitero, A. M. (2018) ATINER'S Conference Paper Series. ISSN 2241-2891
Hunter, V., Palmer, H., Foley, J. and Kucia, K. (2018) RUUKKU: Studies in Artistic Research (9). ISSN 2341-9687
Hunter, V. (2017) Literary Geographies, 3 (1). pp. 27-49. ISSN 2397-1797
Hunter, V. (2012) Contemporary Theatre Review, 22 (2). pp. 259-266. ISSN 1048-6801
Hunter, V. (2012) Contemporary Theatre Review, 22 (2). pp. 259-266. ISSN 1048-6801
Hunter, V. (2011) New Theatre Quarterly, 27 (1). ISSN 0266-464X
Hunter, V. (2011) New Theatre Quarterly, 27 (1). pp. 28-40. ISSN 0266-464X
Hunter, V. (2010) Performance Research, 12 (2). pp. 31-34.
Hunter, V. and Gladstone, P. (2009) The International Journal of the Arts in Society, 4 (2). ISSN 1833-1866
Hunter, V. (2005) New Theatre Quarterly, 24 (4). ISSN 0266-464X doi: 10.1017/s0266464x05000230
Book Sections
Hunter, V. (2022) In: Contemporary Meanings of Endurance: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Routledge, London. ISBN 9781032343846
Hunter, V. (2020) In: Walking Bodies: Papers, Provocations, Actions from Walking's New Movements, the Conference. Triarchy Press Ltd, Bristol. ISBN 9781913743093
Hunter, V. (2019) In: (Re)Positioning Site Dance: Local Acts, Global Perspectives. Intellect, Bristol, pp. 135-158. ISBN 9781783209989
Hunter, V. (2019) In: (Re)Positioning Site Dance: Local Acts, Global Perspectives. Intellect, Bristol UK, pp. 189-218. ISBN 9781783209989
Hunter, V. (2019) In: (Re)Positioning Site Dance: Local Acts, Global Perspectives. Intellect, Bristol UK, pp. 79-104. ISBN 9781783209989
Hunter, V. (2019) In: The Oxford Handbook of Improvisation in Dance. Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN 9780199396986
Hunter, V. (2017) In: Contemporary Choreography: A Critical Reader. Routledge, London. ISBN ISBN 9781317191575
Hunter, V. and Gladstone-Barrett, P. (2016) In: The Oxford Textbook of Creative Arts, Health and Wellbeing: International Perspectives on Practice, Policy and Research. Oxford Textbooks in Public Health . Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 9780199688074
Hunter, V. (2016) In: Radical Space: Exploring Politics and Practice,. Radical Cultural Studies, 1 (1). Rowman and Littlefield, London.
Hunter, V. (2015) In: Moving Sites: Investigating Site-Specific Dance Performance. ROUTLEDGE, London.
Hunter, V. (2015) In: Moving sites: Investigating Site-Specific Dance Performance. Routledge, London, pp. 1-21. ISBN 9780415713252
Hunter, V. (2015) In: 'Affective Landscapes'. Ashgate, pp. 268-291.
Hunter, V. (2013) In: Lifelong Learning, the Arts and Community Cultural Engagement in the Contemporary University: International Perspectives. Universities and Lifelong Learning . Manchester University Press, Manchester. ISBN 9780719088018 9780719088018
Hunter, V. (2013) In: Lifelong Learning, the arts and Community Cultural engagement in the Contemporary University: International Perspectives, Manchester University Press. Manchester University Press, Manchester. ISBN ISBN: 978-0-7190-8801-8
Hunter, V. (2009) In: Contemporary Choreography: A Critical Reader. Routledge, London, pp. 399-415. ISBN 9780415490870
Hunter, V. (2009) In: Contermporary Choreography: A Critical Reader. ROUTLEDGE, London.
Monographs
Hunter, V. (2021) Documentation. Palgrave Macmillan, London, UK.
Books
Barbour, K., Hunter, V. and Kloetzel, M. (2019) Intellect, Bristol UK, pp. 189-218. ISBN 9781783209989
Hunter, V. (2015) Routledge, London. ISBN 9780415710176
Shows/Exhibitions
Hunter, V. (2015) [Shows/Exhibitions]
Videos
Hunter, V. (2014) [Videos]
Hunter, V. (2014) [Videos]
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