Dr Beatrice Jarvis
Faculties, deparments and locations
- Kingston School of Art
- Department of Performing Arts
- School of Arts
- Penrhyn Road
Senior Lecturer in Dance and Course Leader for BA Dance and Drama, ECR Representative
- Email:
- b.jarvis@kingston.ac.uk
About
I am an urban space creative facilitator, choreographer and researcher, and founder of the Urban Research Forum and The Living Collective. I hold a practice-based PhD from the University of Ulster. As a dance artist, I have worked nationally and internationally (Romania, Berlin, Germany and Northern Ireland) to generate large-scale and site-specific choreographic works to explore the social power and potential of embodied movement practices.
My socio-choreographic research has been profiled within Pina Bausch Symposium, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, dOCUMENTA (13), The National School of Art Bucharest, Galway Dance Festival, Goldsmiths CUCR Tate, and the American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting 2013. My commissions include GroundWorks Jerwood Space, Steven Lawrence Center and EGFK Berlin.
Qualifications
- MA (Goldsmiths) Sociology and Research Architecture ( AHRC funded)
- BA (Hons) Choreography and Visual Arts Practices: Dartington College of Arts
- FHEA Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
- ILM Level 5 Institute of Leadership and Management
Domains
I have a strong track record of choreographic and performance research and practice; maintaining and developing my expertise in devising. My current research has led to a series of large-scale community performances in Bucharest and Northern Ireland, exploring how far performance can become a bridge within local areas to address the reality of daily post-conflict life. These large-scale public choreographies have relied upon devising rigorous methodologies.
My background in sociology and research architecture means I see choreography and performance as a social process of the movement and interaction of bodies through time and space. I have been teaching contemporary dance, dance research and somatic embodied practice for the last 8 years, in universities, community centres, dance schools, prisons, research labs and studio based training, focusing on creative exchange and socio-cultural empowerment of the individual within society.
Specialisms
- Somatics
- Site responsive dance practice
- Embodiment
- Post Conflict research
- Dance and Trauma
I am currently a member of Hub for the Study of Hybrid Communication in Peacebuilding. HCPB is hosted and led by the Centre for Freedom of the Media (CFOM).
I am currently training to become a Certified TRE® Provider.
Professional and scholarly affiliations
- The Hub for the Study of Hybrid Communication in Peacebuilding.
Publications
Walking in circles : dancing with shadows - choreo-cartography as a strategy to explore and embody ephemeral mnemonic geographies
Jarvis, Beatrice, 2019, Choreographic Practices (10), 1, pp 145-164
Artist reflection : B'fheidir anseo ta me saor in aisce (A study in the possibility of the sensations of home)
Jarvis, Beatrice, 2017, Environment, Space, Place (9), 1, pp 21-42
Performing Community / The Pride of Promenade : site specific performance and the construction of collective urban identity within post conflict landscape
Jarvis, Beatrice, 2016, Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies (12), 5
In pas cu memorie
Jarvis, Beatrice, 2012, Allotrope (5), pp 30-36
Embodied peacemaking : the role of dance in communicative strategies for conflict mediation and resolution
Jarvis, Beatrice (2024). In: Connaughton, Stacey L., (eds.) and Pukallus, Stephanie, (eds.), The Routledge handbook of conflict and peace communication. Abingdon, U.K.: Routledge
Le deasghnatha / Don Chuardach Naofa Seo : In this sacred search : Lough Foyle as cormorant and barncle
Jarvis, Beatrice (2019). In: Povall, Richard, (ed.), Liquidscapes. U.K: art.earth, pp 55-71
Jarvis, Beatrice (2014). In: Loder, Dave, (ed.), Skin of the goat : a type of cook book. Ireland:, pp 92 -105
Explorations of fluid boundaries of Lough Foyle through ecosomatic practice
Jarvis, Beatrice and Gillespie, Dowd Donall(2019). 25 - 26 Oct 2019 : Belfast, Northern Ireland
"our street / your street / my street” : site specific performance and the construction of collective urban identity within post conflict landscape of Northern Ireland
Jarvis, Beatrice(2019). In: Conflict Research Society Annual Conference : Rethinking Conflict Research and Practice in a Post-Liberal World, 08 - 10 Sep 2019 :Brighton, U.K.
The city is a tree : the oldest forest of a new town. Urban forests as platform for somatic experiences in the city
Jarvis, Beatrice(2019). In: Evolving the Forest, 19 - 11 Jun 2019 :Dartington, England
We walk in step, our feet, the Earth, this duet
Jarvis, Beatrice(2019). In: Storytelling and the Environment : 13th Annual Storytelling Symposium, 12 - 13 Apr 2019 :Pontypridd, Wales
an cuardach seo naofa. Nuair a throid na cosa. Meta narrative in site-specific performance practice as a platform for deconstructive ecopsychology
Jarvis, Beatrice(2018). In: 50th Conference of Irish Geographers, 10 - 12 May 2018 :Maynooth, Ireland
A lost narrative : a choreographic installation by Dr Beatrice Jarvis
Jarvis, Beatrice (2018).