Natasha Stott

Biography

I am a researcher-practitioner, visualist, choreographer, movement director and facilitator specialising in intermedial performance, XR environments and electro-embodiment. My PaR Ph.D. the Performance Projection Paradigm, is an innovative methodology that explores a dialogue between the moving body and projected image, through improvisation. With over 20 years of national and international experience in movement, facilitation, project management and research-led practice and practice-led research.

I founded MindScape Lab, an XR environment designed to enhance mental well-being through immersive and interactive techniques. I have lectured at the China Academy of Arts and the University of Salford and participated in international residencies, including Future Lab at West Bund China and Continuum Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

I am also the Chair and Trustees of Touchdown Dance. and advocates for interdisciplinary collaboration in performance.

My practice develops and explores transdisciplinary and cyborgian narratives through interactive XR environments. Encompassing a range of immersive technologies my research aims to develop strategies to prompt and facilitate conversational performance-play between the moving body and projected image.

My exploration has developed over iterative waves. The project is informed by moment-to-moment dialogic interplay between the performer-participant and visualist. Working and developing processes of connectivity between the movement practitioner and the visualist is where my explorations reside, my research could be seen in the heritage of dance practice and they it is informed by theories of improvisation and becoming.

Connectivity was developed between the artists and the art forms to encourage creative pathways this was introduced through my connective techniques; the Suggestive Spectrum, Shifting Shape System and Choice Method. My findings developed concepts by which to view my study and these were: engagement experience, becoming, fluid exchange, relived, reimagined, response and remembering, exchange & building interpretation systems.

Last year my work was shown as best practice by the Dean of Media & Performance at Salford University to be presented at Nanjing University, China.

Areas of Research

Media & performance, XR environments, performance art, new technologies

Qualifications and Recognitions

Qualifications

Arts, Media & Creative Technology
2014 - 2025
Business startup
2007 - 2007
Performance & Live Art
2004 - 2005
Dance & Professional Practice
1999 - 2001