Ms Lisa Cullen
School of Arts, Media and Creative Technologies
Current positions
Lecturer in Dance
Biography
Employed by the University of Salford since 1996.
Lecturer in Dance and founder of Dance At Salford, a concept that formed a community made up of academics, students, alumni and associate artists, working in mutually beneficial partnerships to nurture and sustain a buoyant dance community in Greater Manchester.
Area of teaching practice - Choreography
Area of engagement - Artist development
I locate myself as a dance creator and educator within a postmodern, hybrid, framework.
Utilising somatic, performance art, and modern dance practices within collaborative processes.
I engage the ensemble in led meditations/visualisations to allow individual experiences and responses to a common journey.
These responses are the seeds to grow a vocabulary that is unique to each company member but shares a common structure via the suggestions given in the meditation.
Writing, drawing, storytelling, anchoring (NLP) are all common devices used within the creative period as both beginnings and ends of explorations.
I work formally then with modern dance principles to create a skeleton that supports set content and provides a constant in which layers of intention can be added.
Qualifications
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Choreography and Post Modern Practices
1993 - 1995 -
Community Dance
1990 - 1993