Changing Perspectives
on Performance
Changing Perspectives on Performance is an international collective of artists and researchers exploring contemporary practices in theatre, dance, and film. By examining the relationship between live and digital performance, the collective investigates how performance transforms as it moves across physical and mediated spaces.
Our work considers how these evolving forms reshape perception, presence, and spectatorship, while opening new avenues for experiencing and making performance in an increasingly mediated world.
Who we are
Eva Aymami Rene is a scholar, dancer and choreographer, and Senior Lecturer in Dance at ARU. Her research explores performance, political and gender identities, with a particular focus on memory, silence and embodiment in post-Franco Spain.
A Fulbright Scholar, she has also examined dance as a form of social protest at UCLA's Department of World Arts and Cultures. Alongside her academic work, she has performed, choreographed and developed community-based projects internationally, collaborating with organisations including La Fura dels Baus, Pina Bausch and Rosas.
Patricia Di Risio is a Lecturer in Film, Media and Journalism at Monash College, Monash University. Her research focuses on representations of women and femininity in Hollywood cinema, and the ways feminist and queer perspectives have reshaped genre filmmaking and commercial screen cultures. She has taught film, media and theatre studies across Europe, the UK and Australia, and contributes regularly as a film writer and theatre reviewer.
Melina Scialom is a performer, choreologist, dramaturge and dance researcher, and Senior Lecturer in Academic and Contextual Studies at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. Her work spans performance-making, dramaturgy and critical writing, with a focus on the intersections of artistic practice and research. She collaborates internationally with artists and scholars and has published extensively in leading performance and dance journals.
Naz Yeni is a theatre-maker, movement practitioner, researcher and lecturer. Trained in Turkey and the UK, her practice brings together theatre, movement analysis and performance pedagogy. Her research explores theatre stylistics, informed by studies in applied linguistics, drama education and embodied performance practices. Alongside her academic work, she has performed and directed across a range of theatre contexts, including projects with Turkish State Theatres and London’s Arcola Theatre.
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Main image credit: Eva Aymami-Rene