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Sue
Hawksley is an independent dance artist and bodywork therapist based in
Edinburgh. Her initial dance training was with Shirley Rees Edwards' Southern
Ballet School in Bournemouth, then at the Royal Ballet School in London,
graduating in 1983 with the Teaching Diploma - Dip.RBS(TTC).
Sue has performed with Rambert Dance Company, Mantis, Scottish Ballet
and cie. Philippe Genty among others, working with choreographers such
as Merce Cunningham, Trisha Brown, Siobhan Davies, Richard Alston, Ashley
Page and Michael Clark. She has undertaken many freelance projects as
performer, choreographer or educator, acquiring skills in contemporary
dance and somatic movement practices, puppetry, and working with new technologies.
She qualified as a massage and bodywork therapist in 1991 and this practice
profoundly informs her approach to dance.
Her choreographic practice is concerned primarily with movement and issues around identity and territory, and she is particularly interested in interdisciplinary and collaborative practices. Sue has extensive teaching experience and is currently lecturing at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. She is completing a practice-led PhD in Dance & Choreography at Edinburgh College of Art; her research explores how choreographic and somatic practices, philosophy, and mediation through performance and technology can be employed in the critical engagement of concepts of embodiment. |