School of Sport, Performing Arts and Leisure

Danielle Aways

Name	Danielle Aways
Job Title	Senior Lecturer and MA Dance Course Leader
School	School of Sport, Performing Arts and Leisure
Tel	01902 32 3185
Email	d.aways@wlv.ac.uk

Biographical Summary

I have performed, taught and choreographed in Edmonton, Calgary and Montreal. My dance training included study at both conservatoire and liberal arts institutions, a combination which allows my contribution to a variety of modules.

I relocated to the UK from Canada to teach on the choreographic performance and ballet technique modules at the University of Wolverhampton.

My technique teaching practice is informed by my passion for anatomy and dance science, while my choreographic teaching is based around helping students away from their learned movement habitus so they can investigate and develop personal choreographic signatures.

Research Interests

My interests in dance training include alignment, body awareness, injury prevention, physical and psychological performance enhancement and artistic/interpretive coaching for performance, whereas my choreographic and creative process explorations are based on self-portraiture, identity and gender.

Teaching Responsibilities

Dance Practice Modules (Undergraduates levels 4, 5 & 6)
Dance Performance modules (Undergraduates levels 4,5)
Dance Science (undergraduates levels 4 and 6)
Choreography (undergraduates level 4)
Dissertation Supervisor (undergraduates level 6)
Body in Practice (MA module level 7)

Non-teaching Responsibilities

Course Leader MA Dance
Learning and Teaching Committee
Validation and Modification Sub-Committee
Dance Department Marketing Representative
Auditions, Open Days and Recruitment

Membership of Professional Bodies and Learned Societies

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Member of the International Association of Dance Medicine and Science

Publications

Co-Publications

Nordin-Bates, S.M., Cumming, J., Aways,D., & Sharp,L. (2011). Imagining Yourself Dancing to Perfection? Correlates of Perfectionism Among Ballet and Contemporary Dancers, Journal of Clinical Sport Psychology, vol. 5, pp.58-76.
Koutedakis, Y., Clarke, F., Wyon, M., Aways, D. & Owolabi, E.O. (2009), Muscular strength: applications for dancers, Medical Problems of Performing Artists, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 157.

Conference Presentations

Papers

20th Annual Meeting of the International Association of Dance Medicine and Science Conference in Birmingham UK 2010

D.Aways & D. Wilson, Emerging Independent Dancers and Podcasts fro Fitness Training: A Pilot Project .

Posters

Symposium on the Psychology of Dance: Research and Application in Birmingham UK, 2010

D.Aways, The use of scientific components as a tool for dancer profiling and the promotion of harmonious passion in dance: a case study.

19th Annual meeting of the International Association of Dance Medicine and Science Conference in the Hague 2010.

D.Aways, Technological observational learning for the improvement of classical ballet technique

Qualifications

2008 Post-Graduate Certificate T & L in H.E, University of Wolverhampton, England.

2008 MSc Dance Science, University of Wolverhampton, England.

2006 STOTT Pilates Mat Work, STOTT Pilates, Toronto, Canada.

2005 Post-Graduate Certificate Dance Science, University of Wolverhampton, England.

1999 Bachelor Fine Arts Contemporary Dance (Dist), Concordia University, Montréal, Canada.

1994 Professional Diploma Dance Performance (1st), Grant MacEwan University,Edmonton,Canada.

Employment History

University of Wolverhampton, England, UK.

2007- Present Senior Lecturer BA (Hons) Dance
2011- Present Senior Lecturer and Course Leader MA Dance

Ballet Divertimento de Montreal

1999-2005 Technique and Choreography Teacher

Performance Experience

Benjamin Hatcher, Compagnie Bourane/Motaz Kabbani, Kondition Pluriel, Corps & Graff, Louise Bedard Danse, Mariko Tanabe Danse, Ditry Feet Dance Productions, Alberta Dance Explosions, Edmonton Fringe Festival.