University of Chichester Dance

Our senior lecturer Dr Natalie Rowland presented her research into new materialist approaches to aerial theatre making at the Theatre & Performance Research Association conference at Queen Mary University last week.
Talking about the process of her latest work ‘Sea with Me’ Natalie has been exploring ways of dwelling and being-with aerial materials, considering scenography as a ‘world of input’ rather than a mode of creating worlds.

Dr Natalie Rowland is a practitioner-researcher based in the Dance Department at the University of Chichester, specialising in aerial dance and scenography. As an artist and researcher with an interdisciplinary practice, she finds the crossovers and relationships between dance, aerial, technologies and scenographic practice a fertile ground for exploring the potential of these arts.
Natalie teaches on our undergraduate programmes BA(hons) Dance, BA(hons) Dance Performance and is programme coordinator for our BA(hons) Dance and Aerial Arts, as well as designing for our touring companies @3falldancecompany and @mapdance