Alissa Clarke
Senior Lecturer
School of Visual and Performing Arts
De Montfort University
United Kingdom
Biography
Alissa joined the School of Arts in 2009, after completing an AHRC-funded PhD at the University of Exeter. Her doctoral thesis explored the possibilities of creating embodied, performative writing with which to document the experiences of psychophysical performer trainings. Alissa has been practising Phillip Zarrilli’s Asian martial / meditational arts-based performer training since 2002, and has been involved with Sandra Reeve’s ‘Move into Life’ movement work since 2005. These forms of performer training provide the foundations for her practice, teaching and much of her writing.
Research Interest
Contemporary body-based performance practice, Psychophysical performance and performer training, The performer’s body, Feminist and gender theory and performance practice, Actor training, performative personae, female stars and classical Hollywood cinema, Documentation of performance"
Publications
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Clarke A (2013) Orgasms and Oppositions: Dani Ploegers ELECTRODE, Critical Acts. The Drama Review 57: 158-163.
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Clarke A (2017) The Pleasures of Writing about the Pleasures of the Practice: Documenting Psychophysical Performer Trainings. The Context and Processes of Digital Curation and Archiving, London.
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Clarke A (2017) Q+A with Jenny Spires as part of the fiftieth anniversary of the screening of Peter Whiteheads Tonite Lets All Make Love in London (1967). Phoenix Cinema, Leicester.
