Flesh and Text Devising Performance by Bodies in Flight

Simon Jones is a senior lecturer of graphic design at Leeds Arts University and has been in education for more than ten years specializing in contextual and critical studies for art and design subjects. His current role at Leeds Arts University involves the delivery of teaching on the contextual and theoretical aspects of graphic design practice and professional research in the areas of media, gender and identity. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate at Leeds Beckett University’s school of cultural studies and humanities with a research focus of media representations of masculinities.

Contact: Graphic Design, Leeds Arts University, Blenheim Walk, Leeds LS2 9AQ, UK.

Dr Sara Giddens is a choreographer and creative facilitator. She teaches on the Dance Performance and Teaching course at the University of Central Lancashire. Having worked on the ‘Articulating Dance’ project, as part of Choreographic Lab, Sara completed a practice-based Ph.D. entitled ‘Still small acts’ in 2015, co-hosted by Dance4 and Middlesex University. She continues to develop, make and tour performance-based work with Prof Simon Jones (Bristol University) through their company Bodies in Flight (1989), who are celebrating 30 years of making performance work with their new show Life Class and stand-alone exhibition Flesh and Text.