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Ben Spatz
Ben Spatz is a nonbinary researcher and theorist of embodied practice. They are Senior Lecturer in Drama, Theatre and Performance at the University of Huddersfield, UK and author of three books: What a Body Can Do (Routledge 2015), Blue Sky Body (Routledge 2020), and Making a Laboratory (Punctum forthcoming). Ben is editor of the videographic Journal of Embodied Research from Open Library of Humanities and the Advanced Methods imprint from Punctum Books, as well as co-convener of the Embodied Research Working Group within the International Federation for Theatre Research. Ben’s critical and methodological proposals for audiovisual embodied research have been presented at nearly thirty institutions in eleven countries, ranging from large research universities to theater academies and conservatories. Ben has more than two decades of experience as a performer and director of contemporary performance, working mainly in New York City from 2001 to 2013. For more information, please visit: <www.urbanresearchtheater.com>.
