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Personal profile
Biography
I am an artist-scholar working with practices of choreography, filmmaking, somatics and dance. I was born in the Wairarapa in Aotearoa New Zealand, but now live and work in Coventry. My research is broad in scope but is underpinned by collaborative partnerships that explore the limits, possibilities and values of the moving human body. I work mostly through practice-research to make traditional and non-traditional scholarly outputs in which I seek to communicate complex ideas in accessible and innovative ways.
I like to support the work of other people – particularly postgraduate students and early career researchers – to seek to understand how artistic and scholarly practices might contribute to developing new understandings of humans in motion.
My current work explores science and arts understandings of body awareness and interoception, the complications of being and having a body in practice-research, and ongoing artistic practices exploring authentic movement, improvisation and the camera.
Some recent things I've made or developed include Lithium Dancing (in plain sight), Children of the soil, Force Majeure, Dancing Their Unhappy Freedoms, and The Body in Time.
Email: simon.ellis@coventry.ac.uk
Website: www.skellis.net
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Dance after Lockdown
Ellis, S., Cisneros, R. K. & McLelland, R.
4/01/21 → 30/04/21
Project: Internally funded project
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Children of the Soil
Ellis, S., 15 Aug 2022Research output: Practice-Based and Non-textual Research › Digital or Visual Media
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Dance After Lockdown: Living With Paradox
Ellis, S., Cisneros, R. K. & McLelland, R., 2 Aug 2022, (Accepted/In press) In: Kritika Kultura. (In-Press), p. (In-Press)Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Lithium dancing (hidden in plain sight)
Ellis, S., 9 Sep 2022, In: The International Journal of Screendance. 13, p. 204-220 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Force Majeure
Ellis, S. & Charrier, M., 28 Feb 2022Research output: Practice-Based and Non-textual Research › Digital or Visual Media
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Cellule d’Essai 2021: A biography of sorts
Ellis, S., 13 Sep 2021, European Dancehouse Network.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
Open Access
Activities
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Pressure, Stress and Strain: The Body in Time in Practice-As-Research
Simon Ellis (Keynote speaker)
20 Jan 2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Choreographic Practices (Journal)
Simon Ellis (Co-editor) & Lee Miller (Co-editor)
2019 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial activity
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S'ALA
Simon Ellis (Visiting researcher) & Elizabeth Johnson (Visiting researcher)
1 Oct 2022 → 14 Oct 2022Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution
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Member of Ranking and Promotion Committee, University of Nicosia
Simon Ellis (Examiner)
10 Mar 2022Activity: Other
Prizes
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Aerowaves Priority Company 2015
Ellis, Simon (Recipient) & Poole, C. (Recipient), 2015
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Lorado Taft Lectureship on Art
Ellis, Simon (Recipient), 29 Mar 2013
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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MediaWall Competition
Ellis, Simon (Recipient), McPherson, K. (Recipient), Barua, N. (Recipient) & Barua, O. (Recipient), 1 Apr 2017
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Temple University Institute of Dance Scholarship, Scholar in Residence, Spring 2018
Ellis, Simon (Recipient), Mar 2018
Prize: National/international honour
Press / Media
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Podcast with Simon Ellis, author of Some Things About Dance
26/06/18
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Other