Staff - Karen Barbour
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 Phone: (+64) 7 8384466 ext 7738 Room: TT7.04 karenb@waikato.ac.nz
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| Dance, Community and Environment | SPLS214-10B (HAM) | Lecturer |
| Dance, Leisure and Culture | SPLS105-10B (HAM) | Lecturer |
| Performing Dance | SPLS308-10A (HAM) | Lecturer |
| Researching Sport and Leisure | SPLS501-10A (NET) | Lecturer |
| Choreographing Dance | SPLS208-10A (HAM) | Lecturer |
| Qualifications | |
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| Bachelor of Social Sciences | University of Waikato |
| Master of Social Sciences | University of Waikato |
| Diploma in Contemporary Dance | Unitec Institute of Technology |
| Doctor of Philosophy | University of Waikato |
A brief resume:
Dancing has always been my greatest passion in life but in the late 1980's there were no opportunities to study dance at University level in New Zealand. I studied philosophy and psychology instead, completing my Master of Social Science degree in philosophy. In the 1990's I finally had the opportunity to study contemporary dance at the School of Performing and Screen Arts at Unitec in Auckland. After some time dancing in Auckland, sailing in the South Pacific, paddling and skiing through North America, I eventually decided to return to The University of Waikato as a Doctoral Assistant in 1999. My doctoral thesis 'Embodied ways of knowing: Women's solo contemporary dance in Aotearoa, New Zealand', was completed in 2002 and I began lecturing dance in the Department of Sport and Leisure Studies. I teach dance papers focussed on educating students as dance artists at undergraduate level, and supervise graduate and doctoral research. I still like to spend my recreational time outdoors.
My current research interests lie in collaborative artistic research, feminist choreographic practices, ecological and environmental dance, performance improvisation, autoethnography and alternative writing practices to express lived experiences.
Karen comments:
My focus as a dance educator is to provide opportunities for students
to express themselves through personal movement and contemporary dance,
to utilise improvisational and choreographic principles and structures
to create their own dances, to learn performance and production skills,
and to recognise and appreciate the diversity in dance forms and
purposes.
I am interested in fostering qualitative student dance research,
specifically in choreographic practice, contemporary dance,
improvisation, environmental and site-specific dance, video dance and autoethnography.
Karen Barbour Dance Projects is the professional contemporary dance theatre and community class/workshop aspect of my work, and par of Waikato Contemporary Dance Projects Trust. (See the links to Recent Performances or Upcoming Performances for more information about professional dance, or the Dance on Campus page for information about classes and workshops).
Photograph of Karen Barbour and SPLS graduate Kane Day in Kaitiaki (excerpt) 2005. Photograph by Robert Fear. (No photographs are to be downloaded from this website without the written permission of Karen Barbour.)
Some recent publications include:
Barbour, K.N., Davies, J., Homan, R., May, H., Mitchley, P. & Nakayama, A. (2007 February 17-18, 21-22). Fluid echoes dance. [Performance season]. Hamilton Gardens Summer Festival: Hamilton, New Zealand.
Barbour, K.N. (2006). Embodied engagement in arts research. International Journal of Arts in Society, 1(2), 85-91.
Barbour, K.N. (2006 September 29, 30). Fluid. In Fluid [Dance season]. The WEL Energy Trust Academy of Performing Arts Playhouse: Hamilton.
Barbour, K.N. (June 2005). Beyond "Somatophobia": Phenomenology and movement research in dance. Junctures. The Journal for Thematic Dialogue, 4, 35-51.
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