Dancing Postcolonialism

Sabine Sörgel received her PhD in Performance and Media Studies from Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz/Germany. In 2003 she conducted field research with the National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica in Kingston. From 2008 - 2012 she was Lecturer in Drama, Theatre and Performance at Aberystwyth University and a research fellow at the Interweaving Performance Cultures Research Centre Berlin in 2011. From 2013-2019 she was Senior Lecturer in Dance and Theatre at University of Surrey in Guildford, UK. Her publications include »Dancing Postcolonialism - The National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica« (2007), »Dance and The Body in Western Theatre. 1948 to the Present« (2015) and »Contemporary African Dance Theatre: Phenomenology, Whiteness, and the Gaze« (2020) as well as several book chapters, edited volumes and journal articles on contemporary dance, theatre and performance.