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).
He has been involved in the innovative Performance Writing course at Dartington http://www.dartington.ac.uk/pw since its inception in 1994 and was Director of Writing from 2001-2004. His publications include The Connected Body?(1996) with Scott deLahunta, and numerous articles on performance, writing and contemporary practice for various journals and books. His performance work includes the series 'Fire Tables' (1997-2000) and 'Circulate/ Isolate' (2000 onwards) with performances at Galeria u Jesuitow (Posnan, 1997); Kampnagel X (Hamburg, 1998); Neues Berliner Kunstverein; (Berlin, 1999); Seedamm (Zurich, 2000); Dock 11 (Berlin, 2000).
Recent Performance Research projects include an ongoing collaborative project with the Institute for Digital Arts and Technologies at the University of Plymouth developing Liquid Reader , an interface for cross-media performance work, and the publication of Performance Research ‘On the Page’ (June 2004). He is currently directing a two-year Socrates funded curriculum development project for a joint European MA in Critical Arts Practice and Publication with four partner institutions including Maska, Ljubljana and the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, and working on a joint issue of Performance Research ‘On Form’ (June 2005) with Frakcija (Zagreb) and Maska (Ljubljana).
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