Dr. Ric Allsopp (b.1950) is a co-founder and joint editor of Performance Research, a quarterly international journal of contemporary performance (pub. London & New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis) http://performance-research.net and is Reader in Performance Research at Dartington College of Arts, Devon, UK.
He was Lecturer in Theatre at Dartington from 1982- 90 and Research Associate at the Centre for Performance Research, Cardiff, Wales between 1985 and 1994 producing the first catalogue of the Centre (1987) and helping to organising a number of international symposia and workshops including Performance Ritual and Shamanism (1992). He taught at the School for New Dance Development (SNDO) in Amsterdam from 1990-1994 and has since led numerous workshops on performance and writing at the SNDO, the European Dance Development Centre (EDDC) in Arnhem, Dansenshus, Copenhagen, the Centre L’Animal l’Esquena, Girona, as well as in Gemany, Norway, Poland, Croatia, Slovenia, Venezuela and the USA. He is a co-founder (with Scott deLahunta) of Writing Research Associates, an international partnership organizing, promoting and publishing contemporary performance projects including Conversations on Choregraphy (1998-2002), Migrations (Centre for Contemporary Culture, Barcelona, 2000); In the Event of Text (HKU, Utrecht, 1999) and Performance Writing: A Symposium (Dartington,1996) and The Connected Body? (Amsterdam, 1994).
