Dr Daniela Perazzo | Kingston University London

Daniela Perazzo is Associate Professor in Dance Studies and Postgraduate Research Coordinator for the School of Arts at Kingston University London. Her research interrogates the intersections of the aesthetic and the political in contemporary choreography, focusing on the ethical, po(i)etic and critical potentialities of experimental and collaborative practices. Her publications include articles in Performance Philosophy, Performance Research, Dance Research Journal, Choreographic Practices and Contemporary Theatre Review, and the monograph Jonathan Burrows: Towards a Minor Dance (Palgrave, 2019). She was co-convenor of the Theatre, Performance and Philosophy Working Group of the UK-based Theatre and Performance Research Association (2018-22). She was co-investigator on the AHRC-funded project ‘The Dancing Otherwise Network: Exploring Pluriversal Practices’ (2023-25). Her current research engages with notions of vulnerability and discomfort and attends to the gaps, difficulties and entanglements of modes of being in relation.