LOUISA ROBEY

• Student peer feedback models within dance teaching at higher education
• Personal belief and identity
• Interdisciplinary and collaborative methods in performance making between dance and stand-up comedy
• Interdisciplinary and collaborative methods in performance making between sound and movement, musicians, and dancers
• The use of cultural policy and outdoor performances to animate places
• Risk taking and problem-solving in live performance

Louisa is a Fellow of the HEA and holds a PGCert in Higher Education. She currently lectures in Dance at Edge Hill University, where she has worked since 2020. Prior to this, she held positions as a Lecturer at the University of Lincoln and as an Associate Lecturer at De Montfort University.

She is committed to facilitating inclusive and positive learning environments. Her research informed teaching includes the use of peer feedback models to encourage collaborative learning and critical self-reflection. In 2023, she was nominated for the ‘Lecturing Hero Award’ at the Edge Hill Student Led Staff Awards.

Specialisms include contemporary dance techniques, improvisation, choreography, collaborative interdisciplinary approaches and creative entrepreneurship.

Louisa is a north-west based dance artist, and lecturer. She is particularly interested in interdisciplinary performance, and previously created performance work with Near Miss Company which explored the relationship between movement, live sound and physical risk-taking. She is passionate about artistic collaboration and in 2019, she took part in an Arts Council funded research project ‘D.A.N.C.E – Developing A New Comedy Experience’ to explore the relationship between improvisation, dance, and comedy. This led to the formation of the group ‘Flip Flop’ which consists of Louisa, comedians Stephanie Laing and Daniel Nicholas. Currently Louisa’s work is using movement and comedy to explore themes of identity, exiting religion, and spirituality.

Following the completion of an MSc in Cultural Events Manager in 2017 (Distinction), she worked as a freelancer in festival management and assistant producing for China Plate Theatre. She has pursued research interests regarding the use of cultural policy by city and county councils to invoke economic regeneration.