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Helen Bailey, Head of Division & Principal Lecturer

Helen has specialised teaching interests in choreography, dance-theatre performance, and the integration of dance and contemporary media.

She has an international record in cross-disciplinary research in dance and new technologies and has collaborated with academics and researchers from University of Manchester, University of Bristol, Leeds University, the Open University and Nihon University, Japan.

She has been invited to present at University of California, San Diego, University of Bristol, the Laban Centre, London and the Amsterdam School for New Dance in Holland.

In the professional context she has established international links as a choreographer and director with Volcano Theatre Company and has been the Artistic Director and Choreographer of Ersatz Dance since 1998, attracting significant levels of professional funding and touring both live and screen-based dance works nationally and internationally.

In 2006 she was invited and funded by the Arts Council England as part of an artists delegation to ISEA:2006 (International Symposium of Electronic Arts)/ZeroOne Festival, San Jose, USA.