Dr Sarah Black-Frizell

Job Title: SENIOR LECTURER IN DANCE
Department: Drama, Dance and Performance
Extension: 0151 291 3986
Email: blacks@hope.ac.uk

I am the course leader for dance at Hope, I studied for my undergraduate degree at Middlesex University London, and I hold a PhD from the same institution. I am a  fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and I have worked in Higher Education for 20 years. I have trained and performed at the Limon Institute in New York. I have performed and delivered at conferences Nationally and Internationally, and the pleasure of touring work in France, New York, Switzerland & Spain.

I currently co-organise Our Dance Democracy with Karen Gallagher (MBE), an international dance conference of which there has been 3 events and are now planning its 4th.  I am the co-director of the Mothers' Day Project with esteemed writer Esther Wilson. I work collaboratively with Angela Pierre Louis, developing a performance methodology Offering which explores transdisciplinary performance making. 

I have developed an intergenerational mother-led artistic practice Mother as Curator, where I explore my own solo performance work and performing with my family set within our family home.

Teaching specialisms

Choreography & performance studies

Collaborative research practices

Installation and film practices

Sited performance

Humphrey-Limon technique

Home & domestic

Maternal and feminist ethics

School Roles

Course Leader for Dance

Recruitment Officer

First Year Lead in Dance 

Third Year Lead in Dance 

Assessment officer 

Professional Organisations/Networks

Member of THE HIGHER EDUCATION ACADEMY

Member of the Archbishop Desmond Tutu Centre for War and Peace Studies

Board member for Lisa Simpson Inclusive Dance Company

 

Book Chapters

Black-Frizell, S. Pierre-louis A. (2022) Offerings - Tells the stories of our lives in movement in Frizell. C. & Rova, M. (eds) Creative Bodies in Therapy, Performance and Community: Research and Practice that Brings Us Home London. Routledge. 

PublicationsBlack_Frizell, S. Pierre-louis, A (2023) Offerings in Artiszts at home. Routledge (ed) Imogen Racz. 
Black-Frizell, Sarah and Merriman,V. (2023) Introduction Kritika Kultura, Issue 40. 
Black-Frizell, s. Pierre-Louis, A. (2023) Flesh & Mortar. Our Dance Democracy, Forum Kritka, On Dance Democracy in a Fractured World. Kritka Kultura, Issue 40. 

Black- Frizell, S. Frizell, A (2021) 31 Days Old - Performance, Family & Ethics. Journal of Artistic Research, 22. ISSN 22350225

Black-Frizell, S. (2020) Mother As Curator: Ethical Encounters in Art Making with Children. Conceicao Conception,8 (2). pp. 166-185

Black, S. Gallagher, K. (2019) Our Dance Democracy Editorial, People Dancing Magazine, p. 1-3, Feb - March. 2019

Performance & Events

Domestic Spaces Project - Collaborative Writing Project 2020. 

Our Dance Democracy International Conference 2 - 2020

Mother Tongue, Opening Performance Event RISE Liverpool Anglican Cathedral 2019.

Dance & Technology Chair. One Dance UK The Lowry Manchester, 2018

Women Move with Peace :  Keynote presentation. Peace and the Church. 100th Anniversary of the end of the First World War, 2018

Our Dance Democracy International Conference 2018

Call to Arms: a performance Restoring Peace Building Post Conflict Communities. Desmond Tutu Centre for War and Peace Studies, 2017

Motherhood in the Academy, A round table for Oxytocin, Royal College of Art, 2017

31 Days Old: Motherhood In the Academy Museum of Motherhood, New York 2016 

Trace:  Performance at World Dance Alliance - Algiers France 2015