Dr Stefanie Sachsenmaier

Biography

Stefanie Gabriele Sachsenmaier (PhD Middlesex University, DEA Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle/Paris III, MA Goldsmiths College, SFHEA) is Research Degrees Coordinator for Camberwell, Chelsea and Wimbledon Colleges of Arts (UAL). 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 for Artistic Doctorates in Europe (ErasmusPlus, 2018-2019) and Future Ecologies: Producing Dance Network (AHRC, Dance Research Matters, 2023-2025). Co-edited publications include Collaboration in Performance Practice: Premises, Workings and Failures (Palgrave 2016), Critical Stages ‘Unstable Ground: Reconfigurations of Performance and Politics’ (2021) and Performance Research: ‘On Solidarity’ (2022). She also published a series of writings related to her long-term research with British choreographer Rosemary Butcher, with archival work ongoing, and is Chair of the Rosemary Butcher Foundation. Her monograph Politics of Process in Performance is forthcoming with Bloomsbury. With a background as a performer, she is an experienced practitioner of Wu Style taijiquan.