Stefanie Sachsenmaier

Lecturer in Performing Arts / Theatre Arts

Department: Performing arts

Office: Trent Park J204

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Qualifications

  • BA Communications and Audio-Visual Productions, LONDON GUILDHALL UNIVERSITY, London
  • Postgraduate Certificate Theatre Practices, ROSE BRUFORD COLLEGE, Sidcup
  • MA Performance, GOLDSMITHS COLLEGE, London
  • DEA Théâtre et Arts du Spectacle, UNIVERSITÉ DE LA SORBONNE NLLE, Paris
  • PhD Performing Arts, MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY, London

 

  • Qualified Teacher in Wu Style Tai Chi Chuan
  • Qualified Health Qi Gong Instructor by the Health Qi Gong Federation, UK
  • Certificate in Tuina (Chinese Medicine, Acupressure)

Research Interests

  • Processes of performance-making
  • Philosophy and performance
  • Practice-as-research
  • Performer training

Teaching Interests

Performer training (specifically tai chi chuan), devising performance, critical theory

  • Module leader THE3000 Theatre: Forms, Processes and Practices
  • THE2000 Theatre: Forms, Processes and Practices
  • THE1000 Theatre: Forms, Processes and Practices
  • THE1200 (Devising Module)
  • THE3010 Contemporary Theatre Practice: Performance
  • MA Choreography

Biography

Steffi has taught performing arts at several university departments, such as Queen Mary, Royal Holloway and Kingston University and works as researcher with choreographer Rosemary Butcher. She regularly trains and teaches Wu style tai chi chuan at Wu's Tai Chi Chuan Academy in Bethnal Green, London, and has performed with various performance companies as well as her own solo work. Her recent collaborations with artist Christoph Lammers and musician Nick Franglen are ongoing. For more information see:

www.stefaniesachsenmaier.eu

 

PUBLICATIONS

  • Contribution to Laban Sourcebook, ed. Dick McCaw, Oxon: Routlegde, 2011 - preface to and selection of excerpts from Laban's The World of the Dancer; translation with Dick McCaw of excerpts from four of Laban's published books: The World of the Dancer, Gymnastics and Dance for Children, Gymnastics and Dance, Choreography.
  • ”Vom Archiv zur Neuerfindung – Fragen zur künstlerischen Handschrift im kreativen Schaffensprozess zeitgenössischer Performance“ ["From the archive to a reinvention – questions on the artistic signature in the creative process of contemporary performance”], GTF-Jahrbuch 22 "Tanzerfahrung und Welterkenntnis", edited by Claudia Behrens, Helga Burkhard, Claudia Fleischle Braun & Krystyna Obermaier. Leipzig: Henschel-Verlag, [forthcoming September 2012]
  • “Spontaneous combustion – Questions related to intuitive decision-making emerging from a performance experiment. A brief outline.”, available: URL http://www.teak.fi/tutkimus/carpa/proceedings, 2010

 

CONFERENCES

  • "On ‘thinking’ and ‘not-thinking’ in performance-making: a cross-cultural philosophical investigation", How Performance Thinks, Psi Philosophy and Performance, London, 2012
  • "Vom Archiv zur Neuerfindung – Fragen zur künstlerischen Handschrift im kreativen Schaffensprozess zeitgenössischer Performance", GTF Tanzforschung, TANZerfahrung und WELTkenntnis, Cologne, Germany, 2011
  • "Reinventing the past: Rosemary Butcher", IFTR, "Tradition, Innovation, Community, Osaka University, Japan, 2011
  • "A future beyond Allan Kaprow: Rosemary Butcher reinvents 18 Happenings in 6 Parts", Dance and Somatic Practices Conference, Coventry University, UK, 2011
  • "Spontaneous combustion (a performance enquity into spontaneuous live decision-making)", Colloquium on Artistic Research in Performing Arts, Theatre Academy Helsinki, Finland, 2011

  • "Performance-making as a process-specific discilline: the “dispositif” as a conceptual tool for the theorisation of performance-making processes", contribution to "Performance as Research" Working Group, IFTR "Cultures of Modernity", Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany, 2010

  • "How to Act?", Central School of Speech and Drama, London, UK, 2007

 

RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS

  • "On Embodiment", panel discussion with John Rothwell and Dick McCaw, Central School of Speech and Drama, London, 2011

 

INVITED GUEST LECTURES

  • "On Embodiment', MA lecture series, Central School of Speech and Drama, London,2012
  • "Practice-as-research in the performing arts: Rosemary Butcher reinvents Allan Kaprow's '18 Happenings in 6 Parts' - a case study" at "The International School for the Development of Graduate Students", Osaka City University, 2011

 

SYMPOSIUM ORGANISATION

ON COLLABORATION, Symposium Middlesex University, Trent Park, 4 May 2012

 

RECENT PERFORMANCES

  • Lichtspur, a 5-hour durational performance collaboration with artist Christoph Lammers and local musicians in St. Pauls, Munich as part of the festival Die Lange Nacht der Musik, April 2012

  • Lichtung, an exhibition project by artist Christoph Lammers with guest artists Stefanie Sachsenmaier and Mie Imori, Unicredit Kunstraum, Munich, December 2011

  • Spontaneous Combustion, collaboration with musician Nick Franglen and artist Christoph Lammers, Theatre Academy Helsinki, January 2011

  • Count Two, choreography Nicola Conibere, Lakeside Arts Centre, Nottingham, Part of Shift, an evening of work curated by Dance 4, September 2010

  • Laban Theatre, London, September 2010

  • Count Two (excerpt), Part of DancEUnion, Purcell Room, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre,London, March 2011

  • Tanz auf dem Vulkan, collaboration with artist Christoph Lammers, Kunstarkaden Munich, April-May 2010

  • A Trillion Oscillations, Chisenhale Dance Space, London, May 2009; greenroom Manchester, guest artist Method Lab, April 2009

  • im-pressions of an-other, greenroom Manchester, emergency festival, September 2008; Arnolfini, Bristol, I Am Still Your Worst Nightmare festival, April 2008; Camden People’s Theatre, London, Scene Pool festival, January 2008; Cube Microplex, Bristol, festival You and Your Work, September 2007

  • Ein-Drücke, zeitraum exit, Mannheim, Germany, festival frisch eingetroffen, July 2007

  • im-pressions (which are at last being questioned, but by no means overcome), work-in-progress, Chisenhale Dance Space, November 2006

Languages spoken

  • Native language German
  • Fluent in French
  • Qualification in Latin
  • Basic Spanish
  • Basic Mandarin
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