Anna Fenemore

 Anna is also lecturer in Theatre and Performance (Physical Theatre) at the School of Performance and Cultural Industries at Leeds University, specialising in performer bodywork training, site-specific theatre and the politics of performance. Her research interests are spectating embodiment, performer bodywork training, multi-sensory immersive performance, performance and phenomenology and theories of performance space/place. Anna trains in Kalarippayattu and also performs with the Chameleons Group, Fast and Dirty Theatre Collective, the anateresa project and SharpTheatre. As a performer, Anna has also collaborated on telematic performances with Paul Sermon and Steve Dixon. Anna trained at the University of Wales Aberystwyth, then at CSSD and finally completed her PhD (The Pigeon Project: A Study of the Potential for Embodied Praxis in Performance Spectating - A practical theatrical and philosophical investigation into modes of spectating embodiment through reference to theories of space and vision/visuality) in 2001 at MMU Cheshire (Department of Contemporary Arts), where she remained for 5 years as a Research Fellow.