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PODCASTS:
>> ‘The Soft Rebellion’, Podcast 2024 Effortless effort: Healing and embodied presence through dance - with Lizzy Le Quesne. • The Soft Rebellion Podcast
>> ‘Dance Education in the 21st Century’ , CNADE Podcast 2021
https://hubhopper.com/episode/reaching-dancers-unconscious-experience-through-the-skinner-releasing-technique-a-conversation-with-a-phd-in-dance-research-candidate-1633952639
>> Becoming Spongey, movement class, Inkling Room, Netil Radio 2021
https://soundcloud.com/inklingroom/movement-class-winklingroom-presents-lizzy-le-quesne-and-wash-electra-oc
BOOKS:
>> Secretly Alive: Embodied Perspectives on Dance Improvisation
Soon to be published by NAMU, Czechia
Mish Rais, Mirka Eliasova, Lizzy Le Quesne (Ed’s)
>> Manifesting Dance: Homecoming, Expansion and a New Frame for Dance
Chapter - in ‘Skinner Releasing Technique - A Movement and Dance Practice’
Ed Manny A. Emslie, Triarchy Press, UK 2021https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Skinner-Releasing-Technique-by-Manny-Emslie-editor/9781913743291
This chapter is reviewed in Choreographic Practices Journal:
Collinson, P. (2022). Choreographic Practices, 13(1), 123-126. 10.1386/chor_00045_5https://web.p.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=0&sid=adcb72de-c39f-4d1c-a942-ce11c708f09a%40redis
> > An Intricate Field - In search of freedom and togetherness: inter-subjectivity and materiality in shared space
Chapter - in ‘Attending to Movement: Somatic Perspectives on Living in the World’. Ed. Whatley, Garret-Brown, Alexander, Triarchy Press, UK 2015 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=XfwlDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT118&lpg=PT118&dq=an+intricate+field+lizzy+le+quesne&source=bl&ots=LC0emi4qDA&sig=ACfU3U2KhvRtOFV_aV9FJq4z3HT1lm_Gg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiEvfHx_KrmAhVEtnEKHWDnA8gQ6AEwEHoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=an%20intricate%20field%20lizzy%20le%20quesne&f=true
http://www.triarchypress.net/attending-to-movement.html
RESEARCH :
>> A Dance of Becoming: SRT, Somatic Dance and Philosophies of Becoming
Practice based PhD (completion early 2025)
Centre for Dance Research, Coventry University 2021-2024
Funded by AHRC, M4C Full Scholarship
>> Improvisation as a Choreographic, Authorial and Creative Principle
International research project with Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, Czech Republic - with Mirka Eliasova and Mish Rais 2020-2023
Funded by Academy of Performing Arts in Prague and DKR Endowment provided by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic https://independentdance.co.uk/library/a-dance-practice-of-choreographic-improvisation-interview-with-rosalind-crisp/
>> Skinner Releasing Technique and the Autonomic Nervous System: Nurturing Embodied Experiences of Safety and Freedom Skinner releasing technique and the autonomic nervous system: initial discoveries on processes of nurturing embodied experiences of safety and freedom
> > Two Women - Breathing Life into Life
Moving and being moved: a poetic response to improvised performance ‘A Revealed Study’ by Franziska Boehm and Serena Ruth
Choreographnet 2023 https://choreographnet.substack.com/p/two-women-breathing-life-into-life fbclid=IwAR3E4tzVHC_aSIA20wE_5cHuWljPaX5Vuk9HaqrmaQo1h_gvoT_rvUtkWIU
ACADEMIC JOURNALS, CONFERENCE PAPERS:
> > Improvisation as practicing trust : interview with Julyen Hamilton
Theatralia, Vol.26, No.2 (2023)
Eliasova, Hamilton,Le Quesne, Rais
https://doi.org/10.5817/TY2023-2-12
> > Thinking-Feeling Desire in the Now: post-capitalist desire and practices of the body
LCCT The London Conference of Critical Thought (2023)
Stream of 3 panels involving participatory workshops and paper presentations from international speakers 30.06-1.07.2023 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/64468fe2aea4fc6800606b62/t/6495bc934de0b300de56d5ac/1687534741257/LCCT+2023+Long+Programme+-+v3.pdf
> > Two Women: Breathing Life into Life
https://choreographnet (2023)
substack.com/p/two-women-breathing-life-into-life?utm_source=%2Fsearch%2Fle%2520quesne&utm_medium=reader2
> > Skinner Releasing Technique and the Autonomic Nervous System: Processes of nurturing embodied experiences of safety and freedom
Master of Arts by Research
Centre for Dance Research, Coventry University (2021)
Funded by AHRC, M4C Full Scholarship
https://pureportal.coventry.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/skinner-releasing-technique-and-the-autonomic-nervous-system
> > A dance practice of ‘choreographic improvisation’: interview with Rosalind Crisp
Mirka Eliášová, Lizzy Le Quesne, Mish Rais
Independent Dance’s Digital Library (2022)https://independentdance.co.uk/library/a-dance-practice-of-choreographic-improvisation-interview-with-rosalind-crisp/
> > Learning to Dance in the 21st Century: Skinner Releasing Technique as Technology of Becoming, in a New Materialist Frame
Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices. Issue 10.1 Pedagogy and Process: Somatic Informed Education in a Postmodern Era’ (2018) https://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/intellect/jdsp/2018/00000010/00000001/art00007
> > PostWar Space Girls: urban space, girls and the abject
BodySpaceMemory - Visualising Relationships - Symposium, Coventry University (2015)
> > An Intricate Field
Conference of Dance and Somatic Practices, Coventry University (2013) (Choreographic intervention into public space, exploring embodied intersubjectivity and Michael Klien’s ‘Propositions to Dance Differently’)
> > The Reach for Presence
Afterall Journal Online (2010)
http://www.afterall.org/online/the-reach-for-presence
ART MAGAZINES:
> > Nervous Systems: incessant feeling states and dance as life
Disability Arts Online, July 2019
https://disabilityarts.online/magazine/opinion/nervous-systems-incessant-feeling-states-and-dance-as-life/
> > Art Penetrates Life: Rosemary Lee’s Square Dances, Dance Umbrella 2012
People Dancing: The Foundation for Community Dance, Spring/Summer 2012 https://www.communitydance.org.uk/DB/animated-library/art-penetrates-life?ed=28503
> > What is a feminist now? Consumerism, capitalism, class and the body
Umulec International, Divus 2010/2
http://divus.cc/london/en/article/what-is-a-feminist-now-consumerism-capitalism-class-and-the-body
> > Welcome to the Free World. Productive squabbling at Authentic Structures
Authentic Structures symposium on art in post communist Eastern Europe, Prague 2004
Umulec International, Divus 2004/4 http://divus.cc/london/en/article/welcome-to-the-free-world
> > Goshka Macuga: The Nature of the Beast
Umulec International, Divus 2010/1
http://divus.cc/london/en/article/goshka-macuga-the-nature-of-the-beast-whitechapel-gallery-london
GUEST PRESENTATIONS:
>> Dance as Medicine, Chisenhale Dance Space 2017>> Memory at Work, Independent Dance 2016
>> Reading Dance, Czech Dance Platform Prague 2015
>> Meaning and Movement, Dancing Oxford Festival, 2014
>> On Taking Care: Rosemary Lee’s Common Dance (DVD) Rescen 2012
>> Childbirth and Dance, Resonance FM (radio) 2011
>> Writers’ Response, What If? Festival, Siobhan Davies Studios 2010
>> Movement and Meaning, Siobhan Davies Studios 2010
>> Dance and Performance Art - The Great Divide, Summer Dancing Festival, Coventry 2009
arts, dance, culture magazines and newspapers:
>> Afterall; >> Animated; >> Ballet International; >> Ballet-Tanz; >> Contemporary; >> Choreograph.net; >> Dance Magazine USA; >> Dance Theatre Journal; >> Disability Arts Online; >> Flash Art; >> Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices; >> State of Art; >> Tanz; >> TanecniZona; >> Time Out Guides (Prague) >> Umelec International >> Artist and arts festival catalogue; >> Prague Post (art and dance reviews 2001-2007); >> Lidove Noviny; >> Central Europe Review; >> Transitions Online; >> Intelligent Lif
editing:
>> Tanecni Zona / Dance Zone - print quarterly magazine, Czech Republic. 2001-2005 (acting editor in chief 2003-2004) http://www.tanecnizona.cz/
>> Konfrontace/ Confrontations performance festival catalogues 2001, 2002
>> Duncan Centre Conservatoire 10 Years Anniversary brochure 2002
>> Skype Dialogues - with Frank Bock. What Now festival. Siobhan Davies Dance Studios 2013 https://vimeo.com/user1755486