Beatrice Jarvis
Senior Lecturer in Dance @Kingston Universitynotactive
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WORK HISTORY
Senior Lecturer in Dance @Kingston Universitynotactive
London, GB
Beatrice’s research interests include: Interdisciplinary, practice based research, choreography, collaboration, somatic practice, cultural geography, counter cartography, visual sociology, representation, embodiment, socio-technical dance practice and dance within socio-political infrastructures as apparatus. Disciplines spanned: Choreography, Performance, Performance Design, Performance Philosophy, Research Architecture, Town Planning, Urban Geography, Performance Ethnography, Ecosophy, Ecopsychology.
EDUCATION
Ulster University
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Sociology, PhD
Dartington College of Arts
BA HONS (1st Class), Choreography and Visual Arts
Goldsmiths, University of London
MA, Photography and Urban Culture. CUCR, Distinction
ABOUT BEATRICE JARVIS
Beatrice is an arts consultant and researcher. She utilizes key concepts of choreography and visual arts methodologies to develop, original doctoral research on the connections between choreography, dance and urban cultures developing heightened socio-cultural responses to the urban realm. Her practice merges essential dance techniques of somatic practice in a sociological framework of critical perspectives, cultivating a unique stance point to practice based research and the role of the body as archive and conduit in society. Beatrice is lectured at various dance, art and architecture departments in London and wider afield in Europe developing a platform for the conceptual and physical integration of dance, sociology and choreography leading to practical social creative implementation and curation. Beatrice received distinction for her MA in Photography and Urban Cultures affiliated by AHRC within the Department of Visual Sociology at Goldsmiths and has recently completed her PhD at Kingston and Belfast School of Art, titled: Dancing Place: Embodied urban narrative and the choreographic workshop. Her practice has been profiled within dOCUMENTA (13),(Kassel) Pina Bausch Symposium,(London), The School of Art in Bucharest and various spaces in Berlin; including VITal, C|O, and Zentrum. She has presented her research: ‘Das Duet des Leibes und der Stadt. Berlin. Verschieben Stadt’ at AAG Annual Meeting: LA. Her research has been profiled at Urban Encounters Tate Britain 2014, The Playhouse; Derry, Bauhaus-Universität; Weimar, University of London, DRFI 4th International Conference 2012; Urban Photo Fest; Irish Association of Geographers, National University of Ireland, Galway, Aarhus School of Architecture 2014, Bucharest School of Art, Terror and the Tour and Galway Dance Festival and she has been commissioned as site artist in residence of Groundwork May 2015. Her commissions include Jerwood Space, Steven Lawrence Center, Groundwork and EGFK ( Berlin).
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