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Rachel Fensham

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Culture and Communication
dance
theatre
circus
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audience research
archives
visualisation technologies
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Rachel Fensham

 
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Arts
 
Primary Interest
Digital Humanities
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Projects

Displaying the 10 most recent projects from 16 for Rachel Fensham.

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Australian Cultural Data Engine for Research, Industry and Government

2021 - 2024
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Australian Cultural Data Engine for Research, Industry and Government

2021 - 2023
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Australian Cultural Data Engine for Research, Industry and Government

2021 - 2023
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AusStage LIEF 7: The international breakthrough

2021 - 2022
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AusStage LIEF 7: The international breakthrough

2021 - 2022
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AusStage LIEF 7: The international breakthrough

2021 - 2022
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Creative Convergence: Enhancing Impact in Regional Theatre for Young People

This project aims to understand and enhance the personal, affective and social impact of contemporary theatre for youth audiences in regiona..

2016 - 2021
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Creative Convergence: Enhancing Impact in Regional Theatre for Young People

This project aims to understand and enhance the personal, affective and social impact of contemporary theatre for youth audiences in regiona..

2016 - 2021
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RECLAIMING PERFORMANCE UNDER ASSIMILATION IN SOUTHEAST AUSTRALIA, 1935-75

This project aims to reframe a period of Australian history, the Assimilation era (1935-1975), to demonstrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait I..

2018 - 2021
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HASS DeVL Continuity Project Subcontract

2019 - 2020
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Projects

Project Types

10

Research Grant

5

Internal Research Grant

1

Research Contracts

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Scholarly Works

Displaying the 10 most recent scholarly works from 74 for Rachel Fensham.

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Regional Theatre in Australia

Jennifer Beckett, Rachel Fensham, Paul Rae

Journal article  |  2021  |  Australasian Drama Studies

Reflects upon the increasing regionalisation of arts and cultural activity in Australia, in the context of government investments ..

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Submission to the Parliamentary Inquiry into Australia's Creative and Cultural Institutions, 2020, no. 248

Rachel Fensham, Paul Rae, Jennifer Beckett

Report  |  2020

A strong Australian cultural sector requires a carefully considered and strong policy foundation in which funding does not leave w..

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The Biggest Little Theatre in Australia

Rachel Fensham, Andrew Fuhrmann

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2020

After the devastating fire at La Mama theatre that nearly destroyed its 100-year-old brick building in 2018, a sigh of relief went..

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Ecological combustion: the atmospherics of the bushfire as choreography

Rachel Fensham

Journal article  |  2020  |  Ambiances: International Journal of Sensory Environment, Architecture and Urban Space

This paper examines the atmospheres generated by the elemental power of bushfires as embodiment, invention and reconstruction thro..

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Costumes and Choreography from Bodenwieser's Trunk: The Coat as Affective Memory

Rachel Fensham

Journal article  |  2019  |  DANCE RESEARCH

The Viennese modern choreographer Gertrud Bodenwieser's black coat leads to an analysis of her choreography in four main phases - ..

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Research Methods and Problems

Rachel Fensham

Book Chapter  |  2019

An overview of current issues in the field of dance research, in relation to grants and publications.

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Creative Convergence Midterm Industry Report (2017-18)

Rachel Fensham, Paul Rae, Jennifer Beckett

Report  |  2019

This midterm report provides an overview of the research completed by the Creative Convergence team between 2017 and 2018. Mid-way..

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Making and Assembling: Towards a conjectural paradigm for interdisciplinary research

R Fensham, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

Book Chapter  |  2018

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On Choreography

R Fensham

Journal article  |  2018  |  Performance Research

‘On Choreography’, prepared by Rachel Fensham, turns on an aesthetic investigation of twentieth-century dance history through the ..

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Introduction: Micro-climates

Rachel Fensham, Eddie Paterson, Paul Rae

Journal article  |  2018  |  PERFORMANCE RESEARCH

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Scholarly Works

Keyword Analysis

Performing Arts
Arts
Expanding Knowledge
Art History, Theory and Criticism
Heritage, Archive and Museum Studies
Heritage
Visual Arts
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Culture, Language and History
Anthropology
Creative and Professional Writing

News

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Feather-flowers and photographs

Fran Edmonds, Rachel Fensham, Tom Vasey, Kate Senior, Richard Chenhall, Daphne Daniels, Mitch Mahoney, Maree Clarke

In late 2019, Daphne Daniels, the long-time editor of the independent newspaper, the Ngukurr News, visited Museums Victoria to explore colle..

January 31, 2020
pursuit Article
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The demon dance: A modern reimagining

Rachel Fensham

Early modern dance is associated with floating scarves and light leaps and bounds. However, after the First World War those innocent reverie..

August 8, 2017
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A radical legacy: Trisha Brown's postmodern dance

Rachel Fensham

Dancers find their 'their sultry siren selves' in Spanish Dance, choreographed by Trisha Brown in 1973. Melbourne FestivalA retrosp..

October 13, 2014
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Honours, Awards and Fellowships

2020

Victorian Community History Awards: Nomination
2010

Kathleen Barker Award

Society for Theatre Research
2004

Marlis Thiersch Award

Australasian Drama Studies Association
1980

Brian Fitzpatrick History Prize

University of Melbourne
2012

FRSA - Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts

5

Awards

Credentials

Positions

Professor

Culture and Communication

Member, Congress Of Research On Dance

Dance Studies Association

Member

Australasian Drama Studies Association

Member, Performance And Pedagogy Group

Performance Studies international (PSi)

Education

Doctor of Philosophy

Monash University

Master of Philosophy

University of Melbourne

Graduate Diploma of Movement and Dance

University of Melbourne

Bachelor of Arts with Honours

University of Melbourne

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International Linkages

University of London

United Kingdom