Ben Spatz

Ben Spatz is Senior Lecturer in Drama, Theatre and Performance at the University of Huddersfield; author of What a Body Can Do: Technique as Knowledge, Practice as Research (Routledge 2015); and Arts & Humanities Research Council Leadership Fellow with the project "Judaica: An Embodied Laboratory for Songwork" (2016-2018). They convene the Embodied Research Working Group within the International Federation for Theatre Research and edit the new videographic Journal of Embodied Research, published by Open Library of Humanities, as well as the Advanced Methods imprint from Punctum Books.

Recent talks and workshops include a series of performative research presentations with Nazlıhan Eda Erçin and Agnieszka Mendel at University of Leeds, University of Manchester, University of Kent, the Martin E. Segal Theatre Centre at CUNY, NYU Performance Studies, and the Central School of Speech and Drama in London; as well as solo invited talks and workshops at University of Cardiff, University of the Arts Helsinki, University of Aberdeen, University of Ghent, and Northwestern University. Recent and forthcoming articles appear in the journals Performance Research, Performance Philosophy, and Contemporary Theatre Review.

For more information and audiovisual materials please visit <www.urbanresearchtheater.com>.

• Actor training and acting technique

• Theatres of musicality and song

• Epistemologies of embodiment and practice

• Intersections of performing, martial, healing, and ritual arts

• Ethics and politics of embodied training and discipline

• Cultural and sexual identities as areas of embodied knowledge