 RankAssistant Professor |
Dr. Gina Giotaki is Assistant Professor in the Department of Performing and Digital Arts at the University of the Peloponnese. She is a dance artist and certified Somatic Movement Educator. She is a Research Associate in the NHS Department for Research and Development Northwest (R&D Northwest, UK) and has been a faculty member in programmes funded by Health Education England, such as in “Leading a Culture of Research and Innovation in the NHS” and “Developing Early Career Research” (2020) in the NHS. Having developed her own approach to dance pedagogy and creative practice, she explores ways in which: a) mindful ways of moving may inform pedagogy, creative processes and lived experience in contemporary dance practice and intermedial performance b) an anthropological understanding of embodiment and embodied methods may enhance our understanding of dance history and applications of technology in exploring dance as intangible cultural heritage, and c) principles of practice drawn from embodied methods of practice contribute in interdisciplinary dialogues around well-being and enhancing health provision services. Over the past two decades, Dr. Giotaki has held roles as a faculty member at academic institutions in the UK and in Greece. She was Senior Lecturer in Dance at Edge Hill University (2018-2022), and Liverpool John Moores University (2016-2018, 2007-2010), and has taught at undergraduate and postgraduate dance programmes at the School of Performing Arts at Coventry University (UK, 2010-2014) and at postgraduate level at Ionian University (2016-2018) in Greece. As an artist and researcher, she has extensively worked in the community, education and health settings and in collaboration with numerous organisations and artists in Europe. She has worked with esteemed artists such as Miranda Tufnell, Katy Dymoke, Andrea Buckley and Pauline Brooks, and with companies such as Liverpool Improvisation Collective, Bedlam Dance Company, Shobhana Jeyasingh Dance Company and English National Ballet. |
FieldDance: Techniques and Choreographic Practices and Multimedia |
Studies2015, PhD in Dance Research, Coventry University, UK2002, MA in Dance Studies, University of Surrey, UK 2000, BA in Community Dance, Liverpool John Moores University, UK Keywords: contemporary dance, somatics, embodiment, dance anthropology, dance history, intermediality, applied dance practices |
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