Professor Rebecca Loukes

My research focuses on ways of creating, understanding and articulating performance practice through interdisciplinary, intercultural research.

I combine professional level Practice as Research (PaR) with award-winning RedCape Theatre www.redcapetheatre.co.uk with innovative ways to re-configure and disseminate histories of performance and training; particularly focusing on women’s legacies of training.

I am also currently working with international network ArtsCross (http://rescen.net/events/ArtsCross_index.html#.WTUp29y1vcs) a long term initiative bringing together academics and artists across cultural, national and artistic borders. The project is led by ResCen at Middlesex University and partners include QMUL, Sadlers Wells, The Place, Step Out Arts, Beijing Dance Academy, Taipei National University of the Arts, Shanghai Theatre Academy and Hong Kong Academy of the Performing Arts.

I am co-editing a new Routledge book series Perspectives in Performer Training (with Dr Maria Kapsali, University of Leeds). My own book in the series is forthcoming in 2021.

I am also Director of the MA Theatre Practice in 2021/22

Research supervision:

I am open to discussing research proposals on any relevant subject given my research expertise. I am especially happy to consider working with candidates with interests in the following areas:

· Practices and histories of performer training

· Practices and histories of devising

· Intercultural and interdisciplinary approaches to performance

· Women and performance

· Practice as Research