Personal profile
Biography
Louise completed her PhD in dance at the University of Bedfordshire in 2014. She has published a chapter in the Oxford Handbook for Dance and Wellbeing (2017) and has presented papers at several international conferences on the topic of flow and well-being in dance. Louise co-lead on the dance and well-being project: Generations Dancing - a community arts project investigating the impact of an intergenerational arts intervention on participants' well-being, quality of life and citizenship. Louise has been working as a Lecturer in Dance at the University of Bedfordshire since 2013.
Research interests
- Moving Experience: an investigation of embodied knowledge and technology for reading flow in improvisation. PhD Thesis.
Teaching Expertise
- Dance theory;
- history, analysis and criticism
- Anatomy and Physiology
- Dance and Wellbeing
- Dissertation Supervision
Education/Academic qualification
Bachelor, Performing Arts, University of Bedfordshire
PhD, Dance, University of Bedfordshire
Keywords
- N Fine Arts
- Dance
- Flow
- Wellbeing
- Creative Health
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Thesis
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Moving experience: an investigation of embodied knowledge and technology for reading flow in improvisation
Douse, L. E. (Author), Bailey, H. (Supervisor) & Hockley, L. (Second supervisor), Nov 2013Student thesis: Doctoral thesis
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