Melissa Trimingham
My teaching and research specialisms are contemporary performance, cognitive studies, puppetry and object theatre, autism and applied theatre, costume, scenographic space, Modernism and the Bauhaus stage.
My current research has developed from embodiment and phenomenology to cognitive approaches to the plastic and sonic properties of scenographic space and puppetry. I am particularly interested in the connections between the ‘materiality’ of performance and the autistic perception of the world, and I have published on this. As Co-Investigator on the AHRC funded project Imagining Autism: Drama, Performance and Intermediality as Interventions for Autistic Spectrum Conditions (2011-2014: Principal Investigator Nicola Shaughnessy) I explored intermedial drama and performance with autistic children, using light, sound, puppetry, masks and digital media.
I am Director of Practice as Research in the University Research Centre for Cognition, Kinesthetics and Performance. My publications include an article on the methodology of practice as research , the theatre of the Bauhaus and articles on autistic perception of puppetry and costume. My monograph The Theatre of the Bauhaus: the Modern and Postmodern Stage of Oskar Schlemmer was published by Routledge, 2011.
Phone: 44 (0) 1227 823560
Address: School of Arts
Jarman Building
University of Kent
Canterbury
CT2 7UG
My current research has developed from embodiment and phenomenology to cognitive approaches to the plastic and sonic properties of scenographic space and puppetry. I am particularly interested in the connections between the ‘materiality’ of performance and the autistic perception of the world, and I have published on this. As Co-Investigator on the AHRC funded project Imagining Autism: Drama, Performance and Intermediality as Interventions for Autistic Spectrum Conditions (2011-2014: Principal Investigator Nicola Shaughnessy) I explored intermedial drama and performance with autistic children, using light, sound, puppetry, masks and digital media.
I am Director of Practice as Research in the University Research Centre for Cognition, Kinesthetics and Performance. My publications include an article on the methodology of practice as research , the theatre of the Bauhaus and articles on autistic perception of puppetry and costume. My monograph The Theatre of the Bauhaus: the Modern and Postmodern Stage of Oskar Schlemmer was published by Routledge, 2011.
Phone: 44 (0) 1227 823560
Address: School of Arts
Jarman Building
University of Kent
Canterbury
CT2 7UG
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