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University of Bedfordshire
Park Square
Luton
Bedfordshire
UK, LU1 3JU

Sadie Hunt

Acting Course Leader and Lecturer in Dance

Sadie Hunt

Before joining the University in 2009, I worked as a community dance artist and as a dance educator in the secondary state system. 

I am the founder and artistic director of Shunt Dance Company, and have worked extensively within the dance community for companies such as:  NDTA (National Dance Teachers Association), YDE (Youth Dance England), DanceDigital, Street Cred and the Bedfordshire Youth Service, The Transition and Intervention Trailblaizer Project, Marsh Farm Learning Community, Peculiar Productions, The Open University, The Laban Guild and numerous primary and secondary schools and colleges. 

I am the head of the Junior Research Institute and a Bedfordshire Teaching Fellow and also one of the co-directors of the annual dance festival hosted at the University, SifDans.

Qualifications

  • BA Hons Dance Studies, Roehampton University
  • PGCE Secondary Dance, DeMontfort University
  • MA Choreography, Middlesex University
  • PGCAP, University of Bedfordshire

Teaching Expertise

  • Compositional and improvisational practices
  • Release based technique
  • Cultural studies

Research Interests

  • Exploring how existing methodologies, ideologies and practices in other art mediums can be emulated and replicated in dance practice.
  • Reconstruction Practices
  • Russian Modernism
  • The role and benefits of undergraduate practice led research in dance

Research Projects

  • Junior Research Institute
  • Undergraduate research, using the USA to lead the way

External Roles

  • Council Member for the Laban Guild

Publications

  • Hunt, S. (in print) ‘Assessing the Subjective: exploring the problems of applying literal objectivity in the assessment of dance at higher education.’ Research in Dance Education.
  • Hunt, S. (2010) Junior Research Institutes: an exploration into the need for, creation of and benefits to developing undergraduate initiatives. University of Bedfordshire publication
  • Hunt, S. (2010) ‘Junior Research Institutes: benefits to developing undergraduate research initiatives.’ Presented on 6th July at University of Bedfordshire Conference; Bridging the Gaps
  • Hunt, S. (2009). A Day of Firsts, Movement and Dance Magazine, vol. 28, no.2

Professional Practice

  • What Are You Looking At? Performance at Middlesex University Studio A Nov 2006
  • From Blackberry Jam Performance at Lakeview Theatre Jan 2007
  • Constructive Nostalgia Performance of Site Specific Work in Grantham Lincolnshire, June 2007
  • ShapeShift Resolution! 2009, Robin Howard Theatre, The Place, Euston, London, Jan 2009
  • Some Suggestions for Being GoodResolution! 2010, Robin Howard Theatre, The Place, Euston, London, Feb 2010 TestBeds, platform event, University of Bedfordshire 2010

Contact details

T: +44 (0)1234 793295
E: sadie.hunt@beds.ac.uk

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