Dr Stefanie Sachsenmaier

Stefanie Gabriele Sachsenmaier (PhD Middlesex University, DEA Université de la Sorbonne Nlle, MA Goldsmiths College, SFHEA) is Associate Professor in Contemporary Performance at Middlesex University. She is Postgraduate Research Degrees Lead for the Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries and Chair of the Faculty Ethics Committee. Her research centres on the processual in creative practice, with a particular interest in the ways that performance practices extend into socio-political contexts. Roles on funded projects include Co-Investigator on Artistic Doctorates in Europe (ErasmusPlus, 2017-2019) and Co-Investigator for Future Ecologies: Producing Dance Network (AHRC, Dance Research Matters, 2023-2025). She forms part of the AHRC Dance Research Matters Advisory Group, is editorial team member of Contemporary Theatre Review ‘Interventions’ and sits on the editorial board of Choreographic Practices Journal. Publications include the co-edited book Collaboration in Performance Practice: Premises, Workings and Failures (Palgrave 2016) and a series of writings related to her long-term research with British choreographer Rosemary Butcher, with archival work ongoing. She co-edited the special issues Critical Stages ‘Unstable Ground: Reconfigurations of Performance and Politics’ (2021) and Performance Research: ‘On Solidarity’ (2022) and is currently working on a monograph with the working title Politics of Process in Performance, forthcoming with Bloomsbury. With a background as a performer, she is an experienced practitioner of Wu Style taijiquan.