DANCEWORKS

2019 - Reasons to stand on one leg
2015 - danced process #2 : in-site
2014 - Crosstalk
2011 - haptic_dance
2010 - Bodytext
2010 - InTensions
2009 - re-membering(s)
2008 - Blowup
2008 - danced process #1 : talking-while-dancing
2007 - carrier
2006 - passport
2003 - on the shores of Asia, or in the Edgeware Road
2002 - I am I was (a dying swan)

SCREENWORKS

2024 - Seed
2023 - Change Around Time
2023 - re: cover-(y)
2022 - Dwell: landscape in the figure
2011 - Traces of Places

OTHER PROJECTS (choreography & performance for other artists' work)

2019 - Double Agent
2012 - Drifts through Debris
2009 - mutsugoto
1998 - the waiting room

2024
Seed : performance for screendance work.

2023
Change Around Time - performance for screendance work.
X - performer in live-streamed improvised event, Dance Hub SA, Adelaide.

2022
Dwell: landscape in the figure - performance for screendance work.

2021
Glasshouse - performer for VR dance work. chor: Sarah Neville.

2020
From the Inside (Tokuremoar) - performance for group exhibition, Signal Point Gallery, Goolwa.
Open Your World - promotional video and poster for the launch of Wellbeing SA, a South Australian government initiative advocating for health & wellbeing.
► Open Your World

2019
Reasons to Stand On One Leg - Rough Draft platform, ADT, Adelaide; SUE Foreshore Festival, Port Noarlunga.
From the Inside (Tokuremoar) - performance for group exhibition, Praxis artspace, Adelaide.

2018
Double Agent - Interactive installation by visual artist Simon Biggs, performance for gallery opening event, Museum of Discovery, Adelaide.
Back in Babies Arms - dancefilm by Billie Cook, SALA @ Light Gallery, Adelaide.

2016
Crosstalk - Hartley Playhouse, University of South Australia.

2014
in-site - Rough Draft platform, ADT, Adelaide.

2013
Crosstalk - ASU Art Museum, Tempe, AZ.
Crosstalk - 'Glitch'd' workshop, Edinburgh International Festival 2013, University of Edinburgh.

2012
Bodytext - Vanderhoef Studio Theater, Mondavi Centre, UC Davis.
haptic_dance - Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh.

2011
Blowup - Bonhoga Gallery, Shetland.

2010
Bodytext - Critical Path, Sydney.
Bodytext - InSpace, Edinburgh.
Bodytext - Dance Live! 10 Festival, Woodend Barn, Banchory.

2009
re-membering(s) - Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Dance Base, Edinburgh.
re-membering(s) - Dance Live! 09 Festival, Woodend Barn, Banchory.
Mutsugoto - CCA, Glasgow/New Media Scotland, Edinburgh.

2008
danced process #1 - Sculpture Court, Edinburgh College of Art.
just dancing (about?) - Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Dance Base, Edinburgh.

2007
Blowup - Alt-w New Directions in Scottish Culture exhibition, CCA Glasgow.
carrier - Dance Live! 07 Festival, Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen.

2002
I am I was (a dying swan) - Resolution! 2002, The Place, London.

1998
Halo - Fabrica Gallery, Brighton. Interactive installation by Simon Biggs, chor: Sarah Rubidge.

1993 - 1996
Cie PHILIPPE GENTY - international touring.
Derives | Desirs Parade - dir: Philippe Genty, chor: Mary Genty.

1993
The Magic Flute - Opera Bastille. Paris - dir: Robert Wilson, chor: Andy de Groat.

1992
Julietta - Ventura Danza Contemporanea, Madrid - chor: Pablo Ventura.
La Bayedere - Cie Red Notes, Paris - chor: Andy de Groat.
Orlando - Batignano Opera Festival, Italy - dir. and chor: Ian Spink.

1991
Carmen - Opera North, Leeds - dir: Tim Hopkins, chor: Ian Spink.

1990
Vertical Balcony, a Real Gazebo - Arnolfini, Bristol; Tramway, Glasgow. Duet with Bruce McLean.
BBC2 dancehouse - Dancefilm with Laurie Booth and Russell Maliphant - chor: Laurie Booth

1986 - 1990
RAMBERT DANCE COMPANY - international touring.
Opal Loop - chor: Trisha Brown.
Septet | Doubles - chor: Merce Cunningham.
Strong Language | Cinema | Pulcinella | Zansa | Dutiful Ducks | Rhapsody in Blue | Java | Pulua Dewata - chor: Richard Alston.
Swamp - chor: Michael Clark.
Rushes | Signature - chor: Siobhan Davies.
Soldat | Carmen Arcadia Momentum Perpetuae - chor: Ashley Page.
Night with Waning Moon - chor: Christopher Bruce.
Dark Elegies chor: Anthony Tudor.
Mates - chor: David Gordon.
Filmed for TV: Pulcinella | Strong Language.

1987
Accident Ballroom/Refurbished Behaviour - Dance Umbrella, London - chor: Ashley Page.

1984 - 1985
MANTIS DANCE COMPANY - national touring.
Stage Seven | Faust | Mouth of the Night - chor: Micha Bergese.
New works by Tim Buckley & Risa Jaraslow.

1984
SCOTTISH BALLET - national touring
Cinderella - chor: Peter Darrell.

ACADEMIC POSTS

2012-14 - University of Bedfordshire. Senior Lecturer in Dance
2011-12 - Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Lecturer in Contemporary Dance
2007-11 - Scottish School of Contemporary Dance. Associate Lecturer in Dance
2002-06 - Northern School of Contemporary Dance. Lecturer
   2001 - Royal Ballet School, London. Contemporary dance teacher
2001-02 - University of Derby. PT Dance lecturer
2001-02 - University of Leeds. PT Movement tutor

FREELANCE TEACHING

Professional and community level classes and workshops including Dance Base Edinburgh, Michael Clark Company, Scottish Ballet, AMP, Scottish Dance Theatre, Danceworks London, Pineapple Dance London.

RESEARCH

Areas of interest and expertise include: contemporary dance practices; somatic practices; embodiment in the context of dance; collaborative and interdisciplinary performance practice; improvisation in performance; dance and technology.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Neville, S. et al. (2024) Digital kinship in a Glasshouse. International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, Vol. 20 (3), pp. 563–576.

Biggs, S., Hawksley, S. and McDonnell, M. (2022) The Dancer in the Machine. Digital Culture & Society, Vol.8. (2), pp. 67-84.

Hawksley, S. (2021) Landscape in the figure: cultivating presence as nature, Conceição | Conception. Campinas, SP, Vol. 10, (00), p. e021009.

Hawksley, S. (2016) Coping with the (interactive) environment: the performative potential of interactivity. Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices, Vol.8. (1) , pp.43-56.

Biggs, S., Hawksley, S. & Paine, G. (2016) Bodytext: somatic data as agency in interactive dance. in: Fernandez, C. (ed) Multimodality and Performance, Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Newcsastle, UK, pp.179-186.

Biggs, S., Hawksley, S. & Paine, G. (2014) Crosstalk: making people in interactive spaces. MOCO '14. Proceedings of the 2014 International Workshop on Movement and Computing. ACM, New York, NY.

Hawksley, S. (2013) Dancing on the Head of a Sin. Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Vol 19 (4), pp.84-97.

Hawksley, S. (2012) Dancing to an understanding of embodiment. (PhD Thesis) Edinburgh College of Art thesis and dissertation collection, Edinburgh: The University of Edinburgh.

Hawksley, S. (2011) Choreographic and somatic strategies for navigating bodyscapes and tensegrity schemata. Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices, Vol.3 (1+2), pp.101-110.

Biggs, S., Dima, M., Ekeus, H., Hawksley, S., Timmons, W. & Wright, M. (2009) The "H" in HCI: Enhancing perception of interaction through the performative. in: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol.5622, pp. 3-12.

Hawksley, S. & Biggs, S. (2006) Memory Maps in interactive dance environments. International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media 2: 2, pp. 123-137.

SELECTED CONFERENCE & SYMPOSIA PRESENTATIONS

2023
6th International Dance and Somatic Practices Conference, Coventry University. Film-sharing - Dwell: landscape in the figure.

2019
ISCMA 2019: Art Machines. International Symposium on Computational Media Art, City University of Hong Kong. Paper - Dancer in the Machine.

2018
Panpapanpalya 2018: 2nd Joint Congress World Dance Alliance & Dance and the Child International, University of South Australia. Lecture demonstration - Double Agent. Panel discussion - Moving together: Intergenerational dance, somatic education and urban citizenship.

2014
MOCO 14: International Workshop on Movement and Computing, Pompidou Centre, Paris. Paper and demonstration - Crosstalk: Making People in Interactive Spaces.
ASU Art Museum: Arizona State University. Performance & panel discussion - Crosstalk.

2013
ISEA 2013: 19th International Symposium on Electronic Art, University of Sydney. Paper - Somatic Data as Agency in Interactive Dance.
International conference on Multimodal Communication, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Paper - Bodytext: Computing Soma.

2023 - Dance.Focus dancefilm commission: Dance Hub SA & AusDance ACT
2021 - Australian Government Regional Arts Fund Project grant, SA
2013 - Artists Residency: Bundanon Trust, NSW
2012 - Choreographic Residency: Dance Base, Edinburgh
2011 - Creative Residencies: The Workroom, Glasgow & Dance House Glasgow
2010 - Artists Residencies: Bundanon Trust; VIPRe Lab, UWS
2009 - Choreographic Residency: Dance Base Edinburgh
2008 - The Edinburgh Studentship: Fully funded PhD, University of Edinburgh
2008 - New Media Scotland Alt-W award
2008 - Choreographic Residency: Dance Base Edinburgh
2007 - Choreographic commission: Citymoves dance agency, Aberdeen
2007 - Choreographic Lab: Dance House Glasgow
2007 - Professional Development Funding: Scottish Arts Council
2001 - R&D funding: East Midland Arts
2000 - Millennium Awards Fund: R&D funding

2008-12 - University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh College of Art. PhD in Dance
1980-83 - Royal Ballet School, London. Teaching Diploma Dip. RBS (TTC); A-levels
1975-80 - Mountbatten School, Romsey. O-levels
1975-80 - Southern Ballet School, Bournemouth