Ms Angela Woodhouse

Senior Lecturer in Dance (Research)

  • School Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries

  • Department School of Arts

  • Location London

Research activities

Angela’s artistic practice is concerned with dance in respect of audience relations, performance installation, site specific work and interdisciplinary practice.


Current Teaching

Angela Woodhouse, Senior Lecturer in Dance, teaches choreography on both  undergraduate and MA programmes.  She is module leader for DAN 2533 Creativity and Enterprise (year 2), DAN 3644 Collaborative Practice (WCA partnership Year 3), and DAN 3699 Choreographic Research Project (year 3).  

Angela is also supervisor / tutor on the MAPP programme.

Expertise: dance making/ choreographic practice/ Improvisation/ collaboration/ practice as research/ theory/ philosophies in making.


Biography

Angela trained in dance and visual art at the Metropolitan University of Manchester,and has an MA (dist) from University of Surrey. In 1988 she received the Lisa Ullmannscholarship to study with Alwin Nikolais and Murrey Louis in New York. She hassince worked with Reinhild Hoffmann (Berlin) and Sara Pearson(USA). 

Since 1997 Angela hasdeveloped many innovative dance performance and installation works.   Intrinsic has been the potency of intimacy andof near or actual touch between viewers and performers. Her work has tourednationally and internationally. Works include Between (2011-13), incollaboration with artist Caroline Broadhead, an installation performanceproduced by Trinity Laban and touring nationally  to  YorkshireSculpture Park and many other venues and galleries;  ; Censored (2010)commissioned by Woking Dance Festival in association with Lightbox Gallery andTate Artist Rooms – Jenny Holzer; Sighted (2009), produced atThe Place Theatre and commissioned by Royal Opera House Deloitte IgniteFestival with a revival at  Sadler’sWells (foyer) as part of ‘Sampled’ and at Saatchi Gallery as part of Collect 2015;and endings (2009/10) commissioned by Transitions DanceCompany and touring internationally. Angela was selected as one of thecommissioned artists for the inaugural Place Prize 2004 with Threshold..

More recently Angela was commissioned by NottinghamGalleries and Museums and supported by Dance 4 to create Close Distance (2017), a new installation incollaboration again with Caroline Broadhead and with film artist Nic Sandilandfor the 16th Century manor Wollaton Hall, Nottinghamshire.  

Recent and current collaborationsinclude (Un)touched (2016-2020) with sculptor Nathaniel Rackoweperformed at Canary Wharf as part of ‘Artists at Work’ , and subsequently atFold Gallery, London, and CODA International Dance Festival, Norway;  (de)figured (2018), an intervention ofmaterials and bodies, performed both at Royal Society of Sculptors and forAlserkal Lates in Dubai 2019, and ExpandedLandscapes, commissioned as part of Summer Lights Festival, Canary Wharf, 2022. Other recent and current works include ThermalDuets (2019), aseries of intimate films on ipods using thermal imaging technology, made incollaboration with artist Caroline Broadhead, and its successor, Who Cares (2023), using thermal technology to explore the role of touch as asignifier of care, contamination, intimacy and trust, which premiered in WellsCathedral, UK, as part of Wells Art Contemporary 2023.

Angela'swork is funded by Arts Council England, Middlesex University, and variouscommissioners

Publications

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