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

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

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 for the launch of Wellbeing SA, a South Australian government initiative campaigning for health & wellbeing.

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 opening event, 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 - dance-film 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, Paris - 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

19901990
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, London - 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, London - National touring
Stage Seven | Faust | Mouth of the Night - chor: Micha Bergese
Works by Tim Buckley; Risa Jaraslow.

1984
Cinderella - Scottish Ballet, Glasgow - 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.

PUBLICATIONS

Neville, S. et al. (2024) Digital kinship in a Glasshouse. International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, pp.1-14.

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

Neville, Sarah; Matthew Thomas; Alex DeGaris; Sue Hawksley; Daish Malani (2022) Glasshouse: A Dance for Virtual Reality: Glasshouse - A three part virtual reality experience for Oculus Quest 2. Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2022 Immersive Pavilion Conference, July 2022. Article No.: 6 Pages 1-2, ACM.

Hawksley, S. (2021) Landscape in the figure: cultivating presence as nature, Conceição | Conception. Campinas, SP. (Special Issue - Anthropo-scenes: performing arts, ecology, and diversity of ways of life). Vol. 10, (00), p. e021009.

Hawksley, S. (2016) Coping with the (interactive) environment: the performative potential of interactivity. Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices - Special issue, Embodiment, Interactivity and Digital Performance. 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, Special Issue: Without Sin: Taboo and Freedom within Digital Media, 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. (2012) Traces of Places. The Peripatetic Studio. Available from http://twopoint5.co.uk/tps/traces-of-places/

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 (Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Vol.5622, pp. 3-12.

Hawksley, S. (2009) re-membering(s): Being There and Then, and Here and Now. Premise, University of Edinburgh Post Graduate Student Journal.

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