Arabella Stanger
Arabella Stanger is a Visiting Tutor and Doctoral student within the Department of Theatre and Performance where she teaches on the BA in Drama and Theatre Arts.
Having trained professionally in classical ballet, Arabella completed a BA in Classical Studies and English (First-Class Honours) at Kings College London and an MA in Performance and Culture: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Distinction) at Goldsmiths, before commencing her PhD at Goldsmiths under the supervision of Professor Maria Shevtsova.
Her Doctoral thesis engages in a socio-cultural analysis of space in classical ballet and contemporary dance, particularly in relation to the work of Merce Cunningham and William Forsythe. Research interests include: the relationship between formal and social space in choreography and performance; the radicalisation of classical ballet in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries; the use of digital technologies in contemporary dance practice.
Selected publications
‘Striking a Balance: The Apolline and Dionysiac in Contemporary Classical Choreography’ in The Ancient Dancer in The Modern World: Responses to Greek and Roman Dance, ed. Fiona Macintosh, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010, pp.347-367.
Conference Papers and Panels
‘A Community of Individuals: Tracing the Black Mountain Legacy in Merce Cunningham’s Ensemble Space’, ‘To Open Eyes’: Black Mountain College into the 21st Century, University of Sussex, June 2011.
‘Choreographing Alterity: The Appropriation of Counter-Hegemonic Space in Nazi Gemeinschaftstanz’, Spaces of Alterity, University of Nottingham, April 2011.
‘Remodelling the Harmonious Body: The Organisation of Space in the danse d’école and Rudolf Laban’s Choreutics’, Bodies and Socio-Histories, Goldsmiths, University of London, February 2010.
‘Panel Discussion: Michael Clark’, London Art Book Fair, Whitechapel Gallery, London, September 2009.
‘Offsetting Classical Harmony: The Choreography of “Balance” in George Balanchine’s Agon Pas de Deux’, Producing Culture, Goldsmiths, University of London, February 2009.
‘William Forsythe and the Choreography of Space: Redefining the Classical Stage’, Appropriating Space, Goldsmiths, University of London, February 2008.