Dr Pauline Brooks
Faculty: Faculty of Health
Email address: P.A.Brooks@ljmu.ac.uk
Telephone: 0151 904 1445
Biography
Dr Pauline Brooks is a Reader in Dance Performance and Pedagogy and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Her research focus is on telematic and intermedial performance, choreography and pedagogy. She has directed twelve international telematic dance performance projects. She was Principal Investigator on a JISC funded international telematic performing arts project, Making Connections, involving dance and music with universities in the USA and Scotland (2014-15). In 2014 she was awarded the first Vice-Chancellor’s Medal for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at LJMU. Her development work in the area of dance and technology resulted in a LJMU Curriculum Innovation Award in 2009. In 2004 she was made a LJMU Teaching Fellow in recognition of her contributions to teaching and learning at the university. She served as Associate Dean for Quality and Enhancement in the Faculty of Education, Health and Community 2016-2019.
TEACHING INTERESTS:
Choreography, performance and technology, screen dance, dance pedagogy, studio practice (contemporary technique), dance appreciation
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Intermedial and telematic choreography, performance and pedagogy. Reflective learning. Technology Enhanced Learning.
Degrees
2013, LJMU, United Kingdom, PhD, Dance
1988, Temple University, United States, MFA, Dance: Choreography & Performance
1982, London School of Contemporary Dance, United Kingdom, PG Cert Contemporary Technique & Choreography
1980, Aberdeen University, United Kingdom, PG Dip Psychology & Education
1979, Loughborough University, United Kingdom, PGCE (secondary) PE (major) English (minor)
1978, Loughborough University, United Kingdom, BA Joint Hons PE Sports Science and English Literature
Academic appointments
Associate Dean (Quality) for Faculty of Education, Health and Community, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, 2016 - 2019
Programme Leader MA Dance Practices, Dance, Liverpool John Moores University, 2016 - present
Centre Leader, Principal Lecturer: Dance, Dance, Liverpool John Moores University, 2003 - 2005
Programme Leader : Dance, Dance, Liverpool John Moores University, 1997 - 2005
Publications
Book review
Brooks PA. 2015. The Place of Dance: A somatic guide to dancing and dance making. By Andrea Olsen Wesleyan University Press, 2014. 288 pages; $29.95 (paperback); $23.95 (Ebook). Journal of Dance Education, 15 :164-165 DOI Publisher Url
Report
Brooks PA, Burton K, Ferguson P, Kahlich LC. 2015. Making Connections Through the Fifth Wall: A New Creative Place for Performing Arts and Pedagogy in Higher Education Final Report for JISC (previously JANET) July 2015 Making Connections Through the Fifth Wall: A New Creative Place for Performing Arts and Pedagogy in Higher Education Final Report for JISC (previously JANET) :1-25 Publisher Url Public Url
Conference publication
Brooks PA. 2015. Through the Fifth Wall: A new creative place for performing arts and pedagogy in LJMY Faculty of Education, Health and Community Annual Research Conference
Brooks P, Leaver F. 2015. New Locations for Learning: engaging students through creating LJMU Teaching and Learning Conference
Brooks P, Burton K, Ferguson P, Kahlich L. 2015. Making Connections: Through the Fifth Wall Jisc at Network Performing Arts Production Workshop, 5th European Network Performing Arts Production Workshop Publisher Url
Brooks PA, Kahlich K. New Frontiers for Aesthetic Pedagogy: Web-cam technology as a partner in creating new places and spaces for collaboration, SDHS Conference Proceedings ,, Society of Dance History Scholars “,Topographies: Sites, Bodies, Technologies
Brooks PA, McMahon K. Women's Voices: A presentation through Dance National Women's Studies Conference, Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania.
Brooks PA. For the Present - A Woman's View Through Dance Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education Women's Conference .
Brooks PA, Hardwick M. Gifts of Age - 12 Annual Women’s Conference
Brooks PA. Dancing in an interactive sound environment: moving with the SoundBeam National Dance Association International Conference Dancing with the Mouse’,
Brooks PA. Choreographing Movement AND Sound: A Performance Project using Bodies and Soundbeam National Dance Association 'Dancing with the Mouse' Texas Style:
Brooks PA. Juggling to Balance:the lecturer as artist, teacher, researcher and administrator in the 21st Century in H.E Finding the Balance: : Dance in Further and Higher Education in the 21st
Brooks PA. Interface: the development of live and digitised performance Liverpool John Moores University TLA Conference
Brooks PA, Carr DL. Creating an undergraduate dance company: - how following a professional model to deliver WBL at Level 3 and integrating PDP as a Careers programme has enhanced students’ professional competency Liverpool John Moores University TLA Conference
Brooks PA. Interface: Looking at bodies in live, filmed and digitised performance The Turn to Aesthetics; International Aesthetics Conference’
Brooks PA. Melding live and screen performance: so is it dance? Moves International Screen Choreography Conference
Brooks PA. First Contact: Boldly going where others should not seek to follow World: Facilitating Enquiry’ Learning through Enquiry: CETL Alliance Annual Conference
Brooks PA. First Contact: Using Technology to Facilitate International Collaborative Enquiry into Teaching and Learning Informing the Curriculum:Celebrating the Importance of Research: LJMU Faculty of Education, Community and Leisure Research and Scholarly Activity Conference Programme
Brooks PA. First Contact: Boldly using technology to teach dance across the Atlantic Divide Enhanced Learning and Teaching In H.E
Brooks PA. CETL Key note speaker -- Liverpool John Moores University TLA Conferemce,
Brooks PA, Kahlich K. The Pond and Pedagogy: Time Zones, Virtualspaces and Performance Digital Resources for the Humanties and the Arts Conference: “Sensual Technologies”
Brooks PA, Carr DL, Walton A. Enhancing students’ professional competency, employability and entrepreneurial skills through real-world project-based learning: The Student View Educating for the Real World: CETL Alliance
Brooks PA. Pedagogy and Performance in a Telematic Performance Site none, Faculty Research Conference,
Brooks PA. Collaborating and dancing across the Atlantic divide: How the Internet can bring students together into an international community Pedagogies of Hope and Opportunity:The Arts and Humanities Annual Conference, 2012.
Brooks PA, Tracy F. Reflective use of videos: Students as partners in design and development Learning & Teaching Conference 12 & 13 June 2012
Brooks PA, Carr, DL, Leaver F. The Wild Bunch: Tales from the North West HEA Arts & Humanities Annual Conference. Storyville 13
Brooks PA. Dancing with the Net: videoconferencing as a means to creative collaboration in HE Networkshop 41 April 9-11 2013 Keele University
Brooks PA. Using Video Conferencing creatively to develop international student collaboration LJMU Learninng & Teaching conference
Brooks PA. Dancing at the Worlds’ Fair: Northern Ballet’s Production of The Great Gatsby Twelfth International F. Scott Fitzgerald Conference
Brooks PA. Mutant Beings: Two Halves of a Whole HEA Arts & Humanities Conference
Brooks PA. Choreographing the Narrative: Northern Ballet’s Production of The Great Gatsby LJMU EHC FAculty Research conference
Brooks PA. Using Video Conferencing creatively to develop international student collaboration LJMU University LTA Conference
Brooks PA. Mutant beings: Two halves of a whole HEA: Heroes and monsters extra-ordinary tales of learning and teaching in the arts and humanities
Brooks PA. Visceral and Virtual: multiple layering of perspectives and connections in intermedial telematic dance performances International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR) WORLD CONGRESS
Brooks PA. Dancing at the World’s Fair: Northern Ballet’s Production of The Great Gatsby Twelfth International F. Scott Fitzgerald Conference
Brooks PA. Mutant beings: Two halves of a whole PechaKucha Higher Education Academy, Heroes and monsters extra-ordinary tales of learning and teaching in the arts and humanities
Brooks PA. Playing across the Pond: Intermedial Telematic Dance performance Play/Perform/Participate --‐ Intermedial Intersections. 2nd Bi--‐annual Conference of the International Society for Intermedial Studies
Brooks PA. Visceral and Virtual: multiple layering of perspectives and connections in intermedial telematic dance performances IFTR WORLD CONGRESS,
Brooks PA, Tracy F. Reflective use of videos: students as partners in design and development LJMU Teaching & Learning conference 2012
Brooks PA. Mutant beings: Two halves of a whole Higher Education Academy, Heroes and monsters extra-ordinary tales of learning and teaching in the arts and humanities.
Brooks PA. Dancing at the World’s Fair: Northern Ballet’s Production of The Great Gatsby Twelfth International F. Scott Fitzgerald Conference
Brooks PA. Collaborating and dancing across the Atlantic divide: How the Internet can bring students together into an international community Higher Education Academy: Arts & Humanities Annual Conference
Brooks PA. Choreographing the Narrative: Northern Ballet’s Production of The Great Gatsby, Faculty of Education, Health and Community Annual Research Conference
Brooks PA. Choreographing the Narrative: Northern Ballet’s Production of The Great Gatsby Faculty of Education, Health and Community Annual Research Conference
Brooks PA. Visceral and Virtual: multiple layering of perspectives and connections in intermedial telematic dance performances International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR) WORLD CONGRESS
Brooks PA. Visceral and Virtual: multiple layering of perspectives and connections in intermedial telematic dance performances Theatre and Stratification, IFTR WORLD CONGRESS
Brooks PA. Using Video Conferencing creatively to develop international student collaboration LJMU University LTA Conference
Chapters
Brooks PA. 2015. SEMANTIC WEB SOLUTIONS TO SUPPORT REFLECTIVE LEARNING IN THE CREATIVE AND PERFORMING ARTS Wankel, C. Emerging Web 3.0/Semantic Web Applications in Higher Education: Growing Personalization and Wider Interconnections in Learning IAP
Brooks P. "Dancing from a Distance: International Collaboration in Higher Education via the Internet", Savrami, K. Dancing Dialogues: A Collection of Articles from CIDJ 2
Journal article
Brooks PA. 2014. Dancing Together:Two halves of a whole http://www.portalseer.ufba.br./index.php/mapad2/index, 1 Publisher Url Public Url
Brooks PA. 2014. Dancing together: two halves of a whole MAP2,
Brooks PA. 2014. Performers creators and audience: co-participants in an interconnected model of performance and creative process Research in Dance Education, 15 :120-137 DOI Publisher Url
Brooks PA. 2014. Performers Creators and Audience: Co-participants in an Interconnected Model of Performance and Creative Process Research in Dance Education, DOI
Kahlich L. 2013. Dancing across the Pond: Telematic Pedagogy and Performance Journal of Dance Education, 13 :12-22 DOI Publisher Url
Brooks PA. 2013. Dancing Across the Pond: Telematic Pedagogy and Performance Journal of Dance Education, 13 :12-22 DOI Publisher Url
Brooks PA. 2012. Dancing with the Web: students bring meaning to the semantic web Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 21 :189-212 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Brooks PA. Creating new spaces: Dancing in a telematic world International Journal of Performing Arts and Digital Media, 6 :49-60 DOI Publisher Url
Brooks PA, Kahlich L. Reflections on a two-year joint international project using web-cam technology to create new opportunities for student choreographic collaboration’’ Innovations In Practice, 2 :41-48
Brooks PA. Remediation of Moving Bodies: Aesthetic Perceptions of a Live, Digitised and Animated Dance Performance’ Culture Language and Representation Cultural Studies Journal of Universitat Jaume, 6 :85-100 DOI Publisher Url
Brooks PA. Remediation of Moving Bodies: Aesthetic Perceptions of a Live, Digitised and Animated Dance Performance’ Culture Language and Representation Cultural Studies Journal of Universitat Jaume, 6 :85-100
Brooks PA. Performers Creators and Audience: Co-participants in an Inter-connected Model of Performance Process Research in Dance Education, DOI Publisher Url
Brooks PA. Performers Creators and Audience: Co-participants in an Interconnected Model of Performance and Creative Process Research In Dance Eucation,
Poster
Brooks PA, Carr DL, Walton A. 2010. Enhancing students’ professional competency, employability and entrepreneurial skills through project-based learning, LJMU ‘Learning for a Complex World’,
Brooks PA, Carr DL, Walton A. 2010. Enhancing students’ professional competency, employability and entrepreneurial skills through real-world project-based learning Surrey University, ‘Educating for the Real world’,
Brooks PA. Boldly going: Online Connected International Learning Communities LJMU TLA Conference,
Other
Brooks PA. Invited Speaker: Moves 11: International Festival of Movement on Screen
Brooks PA. Invited Screendance Panel Member Moves 10: International Festival of Movement on Screen
Brooks PA. Invited Panel Chair: From Stage to Screen:
Brooks P, Kahlich LC, Pierre-Louis B, Walton A. LJMU Research-In-Action Day, St George's Hall, Liverpool Telematic Performing Arts - linking students around the world using videoconferencing
Performance
Brooks PA. To a Dancer
Brooks PA. Jeunesse
Brooks PA. Streetwalkin', funded by Aberdeen University (revised to Swan Pond in 1988 for Clarion University Dancers).
Brooks PA. One after Vivaldi (revised 1988 as Springald), Nexus Dance Theatre
Brooks PA. Moonshadow,
Brooks PA. What You Will, nexus Dance Theatre
Brooks PA. Celtic Cry
Brooks PA. Stream of Conscience
Brooks PA. Ariel Bridges,
Brooks PA. Lady Slane
Brooks PA. For the Present
Brooks PA. Faces Of The Forest.
Brooks PA. Faces of the Forest
Brooks PA. Revival:
Brooks PA. Interface,
Brooks PA. Interface 2
Brooks PA. Interface 3
Brooks PA. International Telematic dance performance
Brooks PA. International University Dance Student Concert
Brooks PA. International Telematic dance performance
Brooks PA. International Telematic dance performance
Brooks PA. Interplay
Brooks PA. Interface 3
Brooks PA. Watching
Brooks PA, Kahlich L. Woven Space Across the Pond,
Brooks PA. Travels and Tracings Author Url
Brooks PA. Bing, Bang, Bong! International Telematic Dance Performance
Brooks PA. Bing, Bang, Bong! International Telematic Dance Performance
Brooks PA, Kahlich L. Pushing the Wave
Brooks PA. Extended Bodies: International Telematic Dance Performance
Brooks PA. Extended Bodies
Brooks PA, Kahlich L, Burton K. Making Connections
Brooks PA, Kahlich L, Ferguson P, Burton K, Dempster K. Making Connections: Networked Performance in dance and music Publisher Url
Brooks PA, Kahlich K, Burton K, Dempster K. Distant Voices
Brooks PA, Kahlich L, Burton K, Dempster K. 3 and 10: Across the Pond Author Url
Kahlich L, Brooks P, Calamoneri T. Plastic Tides
Brooks P, Pierre-Louis B, Jones N. Falling
Brooks P, Pierre-Louis B, Jones N. Falling Publisher Url
Engagement & Impact
Conference presentation:
Creation and Performance: somatic realities in the live and Virtual, The Creative Process: Choreography, Choice-Making and Communication, National Dance Education Organisation, Hyatt Regency, Miami, Florida, USA., Oral presentation. 2019
Creating in the liminal performance space between live and digital dance worlds – with specific reference to the Dance work “Falling”, Mind the Gap: Liminal Spaces, Images and Texts, Trinity college, Dublin, Oral presentation. 2019
Artistic practice and research in academia: finding my feet – and my voice., The Artist Researcher in Performance Symposium, Bedford University, Oral presentation. 2018
Moving online/going global: creative collaboration from a distance. co-presenter Carr, D., Sustaining the Discipline: Embedding the right to dance in the C21st., Jointly hosted by Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Leeds Beckett University and University of Leeds, Other. 2016
Making Connections: Dance and Music Telematic Project -- interactive session. Co-presenters Kahlich, L; Pierre-Louis, B., & Walton, A., LJMU Research in Action Day, St George's Hall, Liverpool, Other. 2016
Blending the Traditional with the Innovative - making theatre global, IFTR/FIRT Internatioal Federation of theatre Research conference, University of Stokholm, Oral presentation. 2016
Choreographing the Narrative: Northern Ballet’s Production of The Great Gatsby, Adaptation and Dance, Centre for Adaptations, De Montfort University,, Oral presentation. 2016
Other Professional Activity:
QAA External Expert: Quality and Standards Review for Monitoring and Intervention (QSRMI). 2019
Guest Lecturer Florida State Unviersity Dance Department, Graduate Department Dance & Technology-- Telematic and Intermedial Dance April 2015.
Member of LJMU Academic Board From September 2015.
Editorial boards:
Journal of Critical Arts, Reviewer, http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rcrc20. 2017
Research in Dance Education, Peer Reviewer, http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14647893.2014.891846#.U7_qK6jjjIU. 2014
Journal of Dance Education, REview Board, http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ujod20/current. 2013
Innovations in Practice, Editor. 2012
Innovations in Practice, Editorial Board, http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/ECL/mentor/92936.htm. 2008
Other invited event:
Jisc Digifest 2017, International Covention Centre, Birmingham, Invited guest speaker: Paper entitled: Dancing from a distance, two halves of a whole: international collaboration in teaching and learning through videoconferencing This presentation will introduce how exploration in pedagogical practice in dance and music has been ‘boldly going’ into the unknown, exploring new frontiers for learning and teaching. By inhabiting a space that Rubidge (2012, p 23) describes as one “in flux, space characterised not by consistency and stability but by variation, [a] space that is achieved through a continuous interplay through vectors.” The ‘vectors’ in this instance are the global space linked by video conferencing systems through the Internet and identified through the projector screen, and the local space defined by the physicality of the studio theatre. Playful experimentation with the ‘magic’ of technology has brought students together into a global creative, collaborative learning community to become ‘two halves of a whole’. Drawing on some of the ten years of dance and music projects with students from universities in Liverpool, Philadelphia, Fort Lauderdale and Edinburgh, the presenter will share how performance-led investigations have explored the potential of video conferencing technology as a tool for creating new learning and teaching environments, as well as to ascertain its potential for creating communities of learners between university students who, for reasons of time and distance, would not normally have opportunities for international learning.. 2017
Campus Moves: Presentation for International Festival of Movement on Screen,, Blue Coat Arts Centre, Liverpool, Invited Guest Speaker: Campus Moves: 'Travels & Tracings 2011: International Telematic Dance', Moves 11: International Festival of Movement on Screen, Liverpool. 2011
From Stage to Screen:, Chester Town Hall, Invited Panel Chair: From Stage to Screen: Performing Arts Network & Development Agency with Chester Performs. 2010
International Festival of Movement on Screen, Screendance Panel Member, Blue Coat Arts Centre, Liverpool, Invited Screendance Panel Member at Moves 10: International Festival of Movement on Screen, Liverpool. 2010
External collaboration:
Merseyside Dance Initiative, Karen Gallagher, MBE, Artistic Director. 2017
IJAD Dance company, London, Joumana Mourad, Artistic Director. 2016
Northern School of contemporary Dance, Darren Carr, Director of Studies. 2016
Edinburgh Napier University, UK. Music Department., Dr. Katrina Burton Dr Ken Dempster Dr Paul Ferguson. 2013
Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA, Professor Luke Kahlich. 2012
Temple University, Philadelphia, USA. Dance Department, Professor Luke Kahlich. 2006
Research Grants Awarded:
National Academics and Creatives Exchange, Staying Vital (The creative shift from social mover to creative performer), Merseyside Dance Initiative, Grant value (£): £5,000, Duration of research project: 6 months (part-time). 2017
Visimeet IOCOM UK, 3 and 10: Across the Pond. An international exploration of dance and music devising & performing, Kahlich, L; Burton, K., & Dempster, K., Grant value (£): in kind sponsorship £3,000, Duration of research project: 6 months. 2016
National Academics and Creatives Exchange, Developing Sensography (Triple Choreography), Joumana Mourad, IJAD Dance Comapny, Grant value (£): £5,000, Duration of research project: 3 months. 2016
LJMU EHC Free Capacity Research Fund, LEAP: Learning Embodiment through artistic practice in real and virtual environments., Darren Carr, Director of Studies Northern School of Contemporary Dance; Jouman Mourad Artistic Director IJAD Dacne Company, Grant value (£): £5,000, Duration of research project: 5 months. 2016
Visimeet IOCOM, Creating from a Distance: trialling Visimeet Videoconferencing software for useability, Dr L Kahlich, NSU, Fort Lauderdale, Florida USA; Dr K Burton & K Dempster Edinburgh Napier University, Grant value (£): £9000 --Visimeet in kind -- 3 institution licences & support, Duration of research project: 3 months. 2016
JANET, Making Connections, Professor Kahlihc, NSU, Dr K Burton & Dr P Ferguson Edinburgh Napier University, Grant value (£): £10,000, Duration of research project: Jan 2014 - Dec 2014. 2013
HEA, Enhancing professional competency and Employability through Real-World Project-based Learning, Darren Carr, Angela Walton, Grant value (£): £7,500, Duration of research project: 10 months. 2011
JISC, Ontologies and Folksonomies in Contemporary Dance Education, Proejct lead: Professor P. Carmichael, Grant value (£): £49,927, Duration of research project: 1 year. 2010
Industrial connections:
Merseyside Dance Initiative, Board Member. 2015
Membership of professional bodies:
Member, International Federation Theatre Research. 2015
Member, Dance UK. 2011
Member, Society of Dance History Scholars. 2009
Member, Foundation for Community Dance. 1990
Fellow, Higher Education Academy.
External PGR examinations performed:
Edinburgh Napier University, MPhil, Distributed Music over High Speed Research Networks. 2015
Fellowships:
Senior Fellow, HEA. 2015
Award:
Vice-chancellor's Award & Medal for for Excellence in Teaching Innovation, VC LJMU. 2014
Learning & Teaching Award: Dance Programme Team, LJMU. 2013
W3C > Semantic Web Use Cases and Case Studies Case Study: Using the Semantic Web to Enhance the Teaching of Dance Simon Morris (with Pauline Brooks), World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), https://www.w3.org/2001/sw/sweo/public/UseCases/LJMU/. 2012
Faculty Sabattical, Faculty of ECLm LJMU. 2010
CETL Sabattical, LJMU. 2009
Curriculuma Innovation Award, LJMU. 2009
CETL Sabattical, LJMU. 2008
CETL Sabattical, LJMU. 2007
TLA Innovation & Development Award, LJMU. 2007
CETL Sabattical, LJMU. 2006
TLA Award for Dance & Technology, Faculty of ECL, LJMU. 2006
University Teaching Fellowship, LJMU. 2006
TLA Award for Dance & Technology, Faculty of ECL LJMU. 2005
External committees:
Board, Standing conference on Dance in Higher Education, Treasurer. 2000
Board, Scottish Youth Dance Festival, Chair. 1996
Board, Scottish Youth Dance Festival, Board Member. 1993
Board, Community Dance Scotland, Convenor. 1992
Conference organisation:
“Widening the Concept of Community”. Community Dance Scotland, Organiser and Chair. 1994
Teaching qualification:
Post Graduate Certificate of Education. 1979
Media Coverage:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mnYhwwfFOE&feature=player_embedded, Talking Heads - Liverpool Biennial 2012.